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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
"It's right there, on page 77. If you can't be bothered to read that far, then why do you expect anybody else will bother to read YOUR book?"
In addition to "change order" fees, how about "email fees", and charge per each 10 lines of email they send you (so they can't shove all the questions in ONE email to escape fees). Every time they ask, send the SAME FAQ back to them. It *is*, after all, the answer. If that's the only answer they ever get (people who demonstrate that they need this treatment), they will either read it or go away.
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Yeah, it's definitely getting to that point. I hate to go that route, but I'm not kidding when I say that somehow, someway, the self-pubs seem to be less well-prepared, less-research-y, less-willing to do their own work, the longer this goes on. I don't really understand it. There are kajillions more articles, Youtube vlogs, etc., now than there were in 2010 or even by 2012, but it's as though they don't exist. On the KDP forums, I've started answering questions with LMGTFY:search term. It's absurd.
I don't get it at all. What
other small business does someone launch, with
NO preparation,
NO research, no
NOTHING? Would you open a restaurant, if you hadn't been a cook/chef, without ANY training at all? Without knowing how to price the cost of your meals and foodstuffs? HR, FFE, etc.? No, at least, not any sane person.
I really wish more people would stop glossing over the SELF in self-publishing. But, alas alack, that is a forelorn hope, methinks.
Hitch