If that’s the case, paperbacks are being sold as vanity items rather than core products. That would make the $25 justified in their eyes but dang, that cuts down on a lot of potential customers who prefer paper.
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Well, without store support, they are novelty items. Ebooks are the core product. Small publishers and indie authors sell much fewer physical copies than ebooks in general these days.
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As an indie author with my own paperbacks, I totally get that. I use Amazon POD and charge $12.99 and still make $2.50 profit, which is about the same I make on my Kindle copies. Adding $12 profit to the top of that seems excessive.
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Excessive? I'd call it taking the piss.
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Replying to @BurntScribe @StoicWriter and
Amazon is NOT THE PRINTER. Add another two economic steps. One to ship to Amazon, one for their cut.
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Createpress prints my books. Amazon owns them. Saying Amazon prints them is just shorthand.
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Not what I meant. Amazon doesn't print Castalia books. They use aerbook, I think.
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This is useful information. I’d like to see
@CastaliaHouse break this down for us if that’s the case. A huge price point like that without an available explanation (that I’ve seen, anyway) creates a lot of bad will. But I don’t mind paying high prices if it helps honest people.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @TheBrometheus @aelfredwessex and
Talk to Vox.
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Replying to @ArchivistPulp @TheBrometheus and
More precisely, the blog and its volunteers are not involved with the business side of the house. Sometimes we tackle the low hanging fruit, answering questions Vox has already answered from his blog, but on anything dealing with money, go straight to Vox.
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Good to know. Thanks.
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