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Originally Posted by avaloncourt
He's claiming that he's being subsidized by unpublished authors to provide content to be loaded on the Kindle. The numbers on that can't possibly work. He's claiming a 50% discount on the cost of the Kindle's are due to those authors making up the $244.50 out of their pocket and, we would assume, there's money in it for him as well.
If only 500 people took him up on this offer that would be:
$244.50 x 500 = $122,250.00 that would have to be supplied by the suckers (er, authors) wanting to be placed on the Kindle. If there were 100 authors subsidizing each Kindle DX, every author would have to pay $1222.50 per 500 shipped. That's just not going to happen. That doesn't even include any percentage to go to him. That is merely the cost of subsidizing the equipment and not accounting for the shipping aspects.
The odd thing here is that he's claiming that the authors are paying this fee. I, and others, have done searches on his company and his name. Nothing has turned up anywhere. Where is he actively recruiting these authors to participate in his scheme? He's seeking unknown authors... apparently so unknown even he doesn't even know who they are.
If there is a glimmer of hope in this, if someone searches the name of his company it doesn't not come up on Google in any way other than this thread and a Mashable article.
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If any unpublished author is interested, I'd be more than happy to read your book if you'll pay for half of my Kindle DX.
