PSA for readers

[lagilman]

The mass market editions of BURNING BRIDGES, FREE FALL, and BLOOD FROM STONE are now Officially available for $7.99.

And hey, they [and the rest of the series] are also available at B&N in digital format for less than the price of the mass market editions (20% less, if you're a member)

Hey, Amazon! Bite us!

:-)

[in case anyone was wondering, I get the same approximate royalties on mass and digital editions. So while I'd love to get a few cents more on each copy sold, I'd rather sell copies than not-sell copies, IYKWIM...]

Comments

[blitheringpooks.livejournal.com]

Has anybody figured out a way to load B&N books onto Kindle? I wonder if they can be converted with calibre.

[lagilman]

If they have, I don't know about it, but I suspect no e-book code's unbreakable (not even iPad, eventually).

I am a firm, loud proponent of One Code to Rule Read Them All, when it comes to e-books. It's the only way they'll ever really be equal to hardcopy.

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

I agree. As I mused elsewhere, the more they become like paper books, the more popular they become. As it is, you can't display "1st editions" on your special book shelf, you can't get them signed by the author, you can't easily lend them to a friend, and you can't sell them at a yard sale. There has to be some parity.

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

I get the same approximate royalties on mass and digital editions. So while I'd love to get a few cents more on each copy sold, I'd rather sell copies than not-sell copies, IYKWIM...]

I was actually going to ask you about this very thing. Good to know, but I'll do my best (as much as my finances allow) to help you ear the few more cents.

[lagilman]

Yeah, I actually earn more on the paper editions, on this contract, but the difference isn't a matter of extreme financial joy.

For those wondering? On a 7.99 mass market edition, the author generally sees about .70 cents. AFTER I've earned out my advance, and BEFORE my agency takes 15%. So if you're thinking I'm making out like a bandit? Um, no. But it does add up, and more to the point, sales show the publisher that there's an audience for these books, and so buy more from the author (that being me, in this case).

And, that, my friends, is why I am so dead set against piracy*. Not for the 70 cents I'm not getting, but because the publisher looks at declining sales, and declines in turn to buy more books from me. So I don't have work, and you don't have new stuff to read, and ain't nobody happy.



*and by 'piracy" I don't mean borrowing your friend's e-copy to read, or even hacking code to read on different machine (go, you!) but the wholesale, thousands-of-copies-distributed on torrent sites and the like.

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

"And, that, my friends, is why I am so dead set against piracy*. Not for the 70 cents I'm not getting, but because the publisher looks at declining sales, and declines in turn to buy more books from me. So I don't have work, and you don't have new stuff to read, and ain't nobody happy. "

Killing the golden goose syndrome. In my experience, that argument just doesn't sink in with those who pirate. I don't think they care about future books or your work. They just want This One Now.

[lagilman]

The selfish, the short-sighted, and the self-justifying, they are always with us.

Most outgrow that by the time they're allowed out of school. Some live that way until they die. All we can do is give information, we can't make them hear it.

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

Congrats!