![]() |
#166 | |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
Quote:
![]() ![]() I was one of your B&N buyers, too, for what it's worth -- Pantheon by Josh Strnad is you, right? ![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#167 | |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
Quote:
![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
Advert | |
|
![]() |
#168 |
Guru
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 915
Karma: 3537194
Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: Kobo, Kindle 3, Paperwhite
|
Responding to Richard and to anamardoll.
Borrows are free, but Prime members are limited to one per month. The author receives, currently, about $1.60-1.70 per borrow. So each borrow is as likely to be read as a sale, IMO. As opposed to the many downloads that result when people put their book up for free for 1-5 days (which you can do with the Select program), which do indeed just sit on devices, I suspect. Lots and lots of downloads, but I don't know how many actual reads. Sales typically get a brief bump after a free period. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes not. My promotion to B&N was equal as much as possible to my promotion to Amazon. Once I went exclusive with Amazon, of course, that promotion ceased. Josh Strnad...nope, not me. There's a bunch of us Strnads around, including another one named "Jan Strnad" who was associated somehow with Star Trek: The Next Generation. My friends assumed that it was me (and that the "Strnad Nebula" in that show was named after me) but it was the other Jan Strnad, unfortunately. My point about the DRM is that epub is losing the format war, not because it's an inferior format, but because its adherents saddled it with incompatible DRM that meant that, for instance, you couldn't read an ebook purchased at B&N on your Kobo. The big advantage of "any ebook on any device" that epub had, disappeared because the epub retailers were busy competing with one another when they should have banded together to compete with Amazon. So, as Amazon continues its juggernaut path to ebook domination...well, it's like watching your favorite team (B&N, Sony, Kobo) lose to the team you hate because they played lousy. I much prefer any ebook from any retailer on any device, but it doesn't seem to be working out that way whichever format wins. I'm really very sad about this, and also sometimes angry, but I have to make solid business decisions. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#169 |
Loves Ellipsis...
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,554
Karma: 7899232
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Device: Kobo Wifi (broken), nook STR (returned), Kobo Touch, Sony T1
|
This whole process just makes me sad.
Really, really sad. What's interesting is that I am in a group that digs for freebies all the time. We all d/l them...and then go back to reading the books that we've paid for. huh. Sometimes - cause we do about 1 book a week in that group - we read one of the free books for a group read, an Most of the group ignore the books that are only free for loan because everyone else can't get them...plus its only 1 per month... |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#170 |
IOC Chief Archivist
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,950
Karma: 53868218
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Fruitland Park, FL, USA
Device: Meebook M7, Paperwhite 2021, Fire HD 8+, Fire HD 10+, Lenovo Tab P12
|
I can think of one usage case in which KDP Select makes perfect sense, and I'd like the opinions of those who oppose it, especially JSWolf, who stated in another thread that not only would be never support the author post-KDPS but also discourage others from reading their work (if I read that right; if not, please correct me).
Say a new author has a debut novel. We already know that distribution through Smashwords can take more prep work to beat the meatgrinder. Why not release first at Amazon via KDPS, take advantage of those benefits, then go into wide release after 90 days? If it were me, I'd be using those 90 days to get that awful Word document in perfect compliance for Smashwords, as well as prepping an ePub with precise formatting for sale on my web site. If I can have the mobi version for sale on Amazon while I'm doing that, why not? I don't see this as all that different from doing a NY/LA movie release, honestly. |
![]() |
![]() |
Advert | |
|
![]() |
#171 |
Wizard
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 4,896
Karma: 33602910
Join Date: Oct 2010
Device: PocketBook 903 & 360+
|
It's not about debut novels. It's about an author abandoning other stores. It's about the possibility of finding out that the newest book of a series is only available for kindle users. It's like geo-restrictions but with distribution centers.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#172 | |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
Quote:
The only difference between the format is the DRM. Once the DRM is stripped off -- via a variety of different means, I might add -- the ePUB is an ePUB is an ePUB. You can buy any ePUB from any store and as long as you yank off the DRM, you can load it to any ePUB reader. Which is to say ALL OF THEM that aren't marked as Kindle. I have 5 eReaders in the house. All of them read ePUB. Most of them support BOTH Adobe and B&N DRM. It's okay for you to do what you want with your books, but please stop spreading this meme like Kobo ePUBs are fundamentally different from B&N ePUBs. They're far more similar to each other than, say, mobi and topaz are to one another (as far as I know -- I'm not an expert on the topaz format) and many, many eReaders and eReader apps support both Adobe and B&N DRM. No eReader supports Amazon DRM except Kindles. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#173 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 28,577
Karma: 204127028
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#174 |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#175 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 28,577
Karma: 204127028
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#176 |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#177 | ||
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 7,945
Karma: 70880793
Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: Kobo Clara 2E
|
Quote:
Just my interpretation. Quote:
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#178 | |
Chasing Butterflies
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 3,132
Karma: 5074169
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: American Southwest
Device: Uses batteries.
|
Quote:
B&N and several Android eReader apps support B&N and Adobe. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#179 |
Benevolent Evil Lord
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,704
Karma: 48339466
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Evil Canada (We all have goatees!)
Device: Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Note, iPad Mini, PocketEdge(retired)
|
I believe if you download from a Kobo device or app, you get a Kepub with an option to download a regular Adobe DRM Epub. If you buy from the website and don't have a registered Kobo or app, you just get a regular Adobe DRM Epub.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#180 |
Loves Ellipsis...
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,554
Karma: 7899232
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Device: Kobo Wifi (broken), nook STR (returned), Kobo Touch, Sony T1
|
If I'm not mistaken, one of the B&N people stated on a different thread (that I'm too lazy to look for) that the beta version of Adobe should allow for the Sony T1 to read B&N, too.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Dystopian YA books by Indie Authors | ImogenRose | Reading Recommendations | 4 | 07-13-2012 07:54 PM |
Translating indie authors | Kumabjorn | General Discussions | 19 | 06-22-2012 04:58 AM |
Question for indie authors - is this profitable? | caleb72 | General Discussions | 35 | 12-12-2010 06:07 PM |
Amazon ups profits to indie authors | kindlekitten | Amazon Kindle | 3 | 07-03-2010 07:35 PM |
Indie Authors on Twitter | DaringNovelist | Writers' Corner | 20 | 06-10-2010 01:26 PM |