Do you plan to publish in Amazon Kindle sometime in the future?

UnknownSaint171

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Like what are your plans for writing? Do you have a goal for it somewhere? Perhaps your aiming for a WebNovel contract?

From my research self-publishing on Kindle is more successful then I thought. It all depends how much you invest and market. Dual Sword God got paperbacks printed which is really cool, seeing English folks get their own books like Chinese ones. We really need the crowd for these type of genre to grow but I think it’s already a lot, just not that big for Amazon. (I still need to do more research)

You guys should check on project life mastery. That guy gives wonderful free advice.

Anyways, I’m simply just curious
 

Ai-chan

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Like what are your plans for writing? Do you have a goal for it somewhere? Perhaps your aiming for a WebNovel contract?

From my research self-publishing on Kindle is more successful then I thought. It all depends how much you invest and market. Dual Sword God got paperbacks printed which is really cool, seeing English folks get their own books like Chinese ones. We really need the crowd for these type of genre to grow but I think it’s already a lot, just not that big for Amazon. (I still need to do more research)

You guys should check on project life mastery. That guy gives wonderful free advice.

Anyways, I’m simply just curious
Ai-chan already does. It did fairly well at first, for a no name author. However, that 'fairly well' would be considered 'pitiful' by most people's standards. Sure, a lot of people buy your books, but much of the proceeds are pocketed by Amazon. Meanwhile, if your 'customer' didn't like your book, they can return in and you won't get a cent from that. In Ai-chan's case, not only do Amazon grab a cut, USA also took a cut of 30% due to withholding tax. It is not possible to get it back. Yeah sure there are countries with tax reductions, but that doesn't apply to Ai-chan.

From Ai-chan's experience, you'd be better off with patreon pledges. Kindle doesn't really pay. It's just something for you to get extra money from. Smashwords is even worse. Ai-chan wonders if they even have any reader base.

If you want to self-publish on Kindle, don't spend too much on fluff. Nobody really cares even if you spend $1000 on editing and cover. You'll only end up breaking even. Give a good story and a passable cover, then run away and don't look back for the next year.

You will also see other jealous authors giving fake 1 star reviews on your book, so be prepared for that too.
 

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I dunno i've gotten like three offeres from different people talking about putting my novel on their sites or something but for one two of them seemed pretty fucking shady and second i wouldnt even consider doing something like that unless i actually finish the story. So for me, nah. Hell it wasnt even supposed to go on this long. It was just supposed to be a long set up for some incest porn. But then somehow that didnt happen and now look where Im at. Dunno what went wrong.

Now im just continuing on for shits and giggles. I swear to god imma get to that incest scene eventually tho. Other than that, i've got no goals to speak of.
 

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Like what are your plans for writing? Do you have a goal for it somewhere? Perhaps your aiming for a WebNovel contract?
Pretty much every other option is better than a WebNovel contract as far as I know. If you're successful enough to get offered a contract, you're successful enough to self-publish to Amazon (especially via Kindle Unlimited) and you would most likely make much more this way.

Anyways, as for my specific plans:
1. Self-publish to Amazon and Kindle Unlimited starting sometime this year.
2. Use my self-publishing as a portfolio of sorts for getting into visual novels if I don't just start up my own team for it.
3. Hopefully not come up with another twenty story ideas to write all at once... this one is the most impossible.
 

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I use blurb .com but it's dear. I have my books self published mainly for copyright purposes at the moment. Perhaps later i might use something else but I'm not looking into it at the moment
 

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Lovely Writing System is already on Amazon and I do intend to bring the rest of the stuff there too when I've finished revising them. I'm also doing some Amazon exclusive short stories every now and then.
Actually, I do miss the times when I also put my novels on Kindle Unlimited because the pay per page model works much better for me than the price per book one. But if I wanted to, I'd need to take them off everywhere else and then I'd need to duke it out with the pirates again and honestly, I'm not up for that. They just take up so much time. I'd much rather go and write another chapter.
Anyway, putting your books up on Amazon is so stupidly easy that I see no reason not to do it.
 

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From an author perspective, it's highly unlikely as i'd need to get at least one of my stories in a fit, properly finished state (at minimum in arcs) before i'd even consider it as a potential. I wouldnt see it as a career though, just potentially a way to make some small bonus cash
That said, if i ever got that far i wouldnt go for kindle unlimited as the super-exclusivity would be a risk in terms of readership.
 

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I was planning to do a campaign on Kickstarter eventually so that I would be able to edit my novel. That way, I could leave it in good shape so that I could send it to a publisher (I have always preferred to publish my stuff traditionally). Recently, I chatted with some authors who have their works in Amazon and, considering the level of reception they had there, it doesn' t seem like a bad alternative. However, my problem with Amazon revolves around the exclusivity they seem to have when it comes to managing my content.

Does anyone here have anything to contribute about it?
 

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I was planning to do a campaign on Kickstarter eventually so that I would be able to edit my novel. That way, I could leave it in good shape so that I could send it to a publisher (I have always preferred to publish my stuff traditionally). Recently, I chatted with some authors who have their works in Amazon and, considering the level of reception they had there, it doesn' t seem like a bad alternative. However, my problem with Amazon revolves around the exclusivity they seem to have when it comes to managing my content.

Does anyone here have anything to contribute about it?
Well, you don't need to publish exclusively on Amazon. The exclusivity is only necessary if you want to have your book in Kindle Unlimited (where readers can borrow the book). If you just want to sell your book, then you can do so on Amazon and also with other distributors at the same time.
Which way is better is something everyone needs to figure out on their own though. If we're just going to talk about money, then sometimes what you earn through KU might be much more than what you'd get with sales only even if you also sold on other platforms.
IMO (and that's solely based on my experience) KU makes more sense the longer your book is since you're being paid for the pages that were read. Naturally, you would also need to take the price into account that you would sell at and how much of that would end up with you. If your price is on the low side (like those .99 romance novels for example) but it's a normal length novel, then one person reading it will most likely get you more money than one person buying it. I think you can look up the rates for KU (what you earn pp) online so you can calculate beforehand.
 

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I was planning to do a campaign on Kickstarter eventually so that I would be able to edit my novel. That way, I could leave it in good shape so that I could send it to a publisher (I have always preferred to publish my stuff traditionally). Recently, I chatted with some authors who have their works in Amazon and, considering the level of reception they had there, it doesn' t seem like a bad alternative. However, my problem with Amazon revolves around the exclusivity they seem to have when it comes to managing my content.

Does anyone here have anything to contribute about it?
Well, you don't need to publish exclusively on Amazon. The exclusivity is only necessary if you want to have your book in Kindle Unlimited (where readers can borrow the book). If you just want to sell your book, then you can do so on Amazon and also with other distributors at the same time.
Which way is better is something everyone needs to figure out on their own though. If we're just going to talk about money, then sometimes what you earn through KU might be much more than what you'd get with sales only even if you also sold on other platforms.
IMO (and that's solely based on my experience) KU makes more sense the longer your book is since you're being paid for the pages that were read. Naturally, you would also need to take the price into account that you would sell at and how much of that would end up with you. If your price is on the low side (like those .99 romance novels for example) but it's a normal length novel, then one person reading it will most likely get you more money than one person buying it. I think you can look up the rates for KU (what you earn pp) online so you can calculate beforehand.
Unless you take the Kindle Unlimited option, there is no exclusivity deal. Only when you go Kindle Unlimited that you have to pull out from every other place.

What does happen though, is that Amazon wants the lowest price anywhere. If you sell on Amazon, Smashwords and iTunes, at the same price, Amazon doesn't care. But what happens when iTunes arbitrarily decided to give a limited time discount, like maybe 50% off? Amazon will come knocking telling you to also lower your price on Amazon so that it's lower than the price offered by iTunes despite it being a temporary discount. You have to comply or Amazon will unpublish your book. And then when iTunes stop providing the discount, Amazon won't tell you the discount is over and that you should increase the price again. So you have to check them yourself and manually change the price again.

Also, take note that on Amazon, there are two types of royalty tier. This is completely at your control, you can choose the higher royalty with Amazon charging you for bandwidth or the lower royalty where every bandwidth needs are taken care of by Amazon. If your story is big with plenty of pictures, you'd probably want to go with lower royalty.
 

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Like what are your plans for writing? Do you have a goal for it somewhere? Perhaps your aiming for a WebNovel contract?

From my research self-publishing on Kindle is more successful then I thought. It all depends how much you invest and market. Dual Sword God got paperbacks printed which is really cool, seeing English folks get their own books like Chinese ones. We really need the crowd for these type of genre to grow but I think it’s already a lot, just not that big for Amazon. (I still need to do more research)

You guys should check on project life mastery. That guy gives wonderful free advice.

Anyways, I’m simply just curious

I hadn't even considered it yet to be honest. I just write. I should probably think about some kind of compensation, I would certainly have more time to write if I didn't have to work.
 
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