Patricia Rice
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Commented on Keep the money in the family
in response to MSB-- I've been a member of BVC for the last few years. (I'm romance/urban fantasy, not sf, we cover a lot of ground) I'm a multi-pubbed author with over 30 years experience, 60 published books, the whole...
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Antonia T Tiger commented on
Keep the money in the family
It's all part of letting the financial markets run everything. What, you haven't heard of the Loan Arranger?...
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dirk.bruere commented on
Keep the money in the family
I'm putting this here because I don't want to clag up the newer threads. Anyway, something I received from Azazon this morning: Dear KDP Author, Just ahead of World War II, there was a radical invention that shook the foundations of book publishing. It was the paperback book. This was a time when movie tickets cost 10 or 20 cents, and books cost $2.50. The new paperback cost 25 cents – it was ten times cheaper. Readers loved the paperback and millions of copies were sold in just the first year. With it being so inexpensive and with so many...
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ARNOLD commented on
Keep the money in the family
Ah, so...Big River is endevering to build up support on the basis of...from my post up-stream a bit... " Absolutely true enough. BUT, Amazon is a Giant Department Store that can employ leverage across the entire field of printed literature and not care too much if they don’t succeed in being entirely successful in a minor campaign against any given publisher. Oh, they do care about sales and profit but they are terribly good in their chosen publishing model and can afford to fail, step back, and renew their attack with added public relations sauce...wots so very wrong with an...
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JamesPadraicR commented on
Keep the money in the family
Dissecting Propaganda for Fun & Profit: The Amazon Letter Meanwhile: Dear Amazon, Some of us don't read ebooks. Please stop trying to kill bookstores....
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dirk.bruere commented on
Keep the money in the family
He is wrong about one thing. Books do compete against other media. My book reading has dropped from maybe 100 per year down to about 3 per year since I got on the Net. In fact, my only fiction purchase this year will be the new Laundry novel....
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