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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'm not sure I get this, if you believe that people will pay in the future then you should be excited, not annoyed and calling for draconian new laws to imprison your works. It's not like the ebook market is going to shrink, it can only grown in the future.
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Very loaded text there, which I've addressed earlier, so... moving on.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
So taking this into account and that 80% of e-book sales are made through Amazon, why are you not on Amazon now? And yes I know of your earlier annoyances with them, but it seems counter-productive to avoid that market as it continues to grow. They have the best deal for profit-centred authors at the moment, you'd be clearing $2 on each sale of a book at $2.99. Even without a marketing budget, you'd probably get casual sales that wouldn't have been there beforehand. For writers who want to make money, I can't see any downsides at all.
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For whatever reason, my foray into Amazon sales for 1 year netted me fewer sales in that year than I got on my website in a month (I'm talking single-digits... in a
year). With no ad budget to push my books up in notice against other, well-ad-financed books, and with no recommendations among Amazon users, no one ever found my books, and so I saw little point in keeping the books there. (You can't clear $2 on a $2.99 book that never sells.)
Biggest problem on Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, etc: Being found among the growing piles of ebooks, and more being submitted every day.