Saileri
Your Friendly Neighborhood IT Guy
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I had already ~2k Patreon when I branched out to Amazon so the wait of 2 months for first payment wasn't bad for me. But, when it came, I tripled or more what I was getting. Again, I was lucky that the story I actually self-published there (zero intermediates, I actually didn't even have an editor at first and still only occasionally use them) was in fact a chill fantasy adventure with very slow harem (meaning 2nd girl gets in Volume 3, which is like 90+ chapters of novel, which is 180k words)You could. The problem is time. The time between writing and publishing on Amazon and the time between the readers purchasing your work and you getting paid. I have bills due on the 1st, and I am not currently willing to gamble my safety margin on a shot in the fickle market. My clients pay upfront, a lot of the time they do so in full rather than within the standard 30 day due date after the percentage upfront charge.
If I sold something on Amazon today, I would have a sorta kinda chance at being paid enough to justify the effort, and in the meantime, I just "lost" three or four clients.
I suppose you could say the reason I haven't made a serious attempt yet is cowardice. My current situation is safe.
I do have plans to make the leap to Amazon publishing under my own name though, but the going is slow as it contends with everything else I'm doing while I'm not at work (including haunting these forums, it is very addicting).
The thing for Amazon is, if you can do things yourself, do them and don't touch any other "publishers" or shit. If I could, I would have done my audio completely alone too but my location inconveniences that a lot. Thankfully, my audiobook publisher is great and doesn't scam people. But, otherwise, I would have managed everything myself to avoid the fees.
Anyway, it's not like Amazon will always work. It can fail like anything else. I do wonder how my new project will be received since it's different from my current stories. As usual, I expect a flop. What will happen, we will see.