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This is the Indie Fringe Festival at the London Book Fair. There are some fabulous talks. I've been listening all day. The Bublish woman was fantastically helpful re marketing, did you know to analyse all the best selling books in your genre re covers, format, what else the buyers bought etc? and there are some nice giveaways.

Honestly, please do get listening you will learn a lot!

Thanks checking it out!

Wish I could shout it in all the groups' ears/ I've been nagging my writing students about it for weeks.

Great info. Please check all the threads in the group and take advantage of the blog go round. We closed the Spring event, but we will be doing a summer event soon. Thanks for joining.

P.D.R. wrote: "Wish I could shout it in all the groups' ears/ I've been nagging my writing students about it for weeks."

Thanks P.D.R!

Great event. I especially like the video about a book's first 50 pages. Good stuff.

Thanks for the link, P.D.R.! :)

P.D.R how many have you listened to? I'll definitely check out Kathy Meis' of Bublish. I also am familiar with Mark Dawson, Joanna Penn and Jane Friedman so I'll probably check those out. I'm subscribed to Mark Dawson's e-mail list so he's always sending me e-mails for his webinars. I have an e-mail on codes from Jane Friedman on how to better one's book descriptions but I'll still check out her videos and info as perhaps there's new material I'm missing.

Thanks for sharing this!

Did you all look at Streetlib's distribution and its possible translation aspect? I am certainly going to publish there!

The Bublish list of ten things and all the analysis involved were a revelation! I thought I was doing quite well now I know how much more to do to increase sales!

P.D.R. wrote: "Did you all look at Streetlib's distribution and its possible translation aspect? I am certainly going to publish there!

The Bublish list of ten things and all the analysis involved were a revelat..."

Can you give us a brief summary or link me to something? I think I missed that.

Wow there royalties are attractive they only keep 10%?

www.streetlib.com/pricing

Thank you R.L.

http://selfpublishingadvice.org/impro... Superb one
Bublish talk:
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So much to learn. Teaches me not to think I was doing well!!!

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R.L. wrote: "www.streetlib.com/pricing"

I don't get it though.
On their website it says that an authors makes $ 1.20 when a book is priced at 2.99. That is less than 70%. And even less than 60% if we assume Streetlib takes 10% off the author's sales or 10% off royalty.

I guess it'll depend on the 30-70% option for Amazon? But also I thought that was a comparison chart. Didn't bother reading the pesky fine print lol

R.L. wrote: "I guess it'll depend on the 30-70% option? But also I thought that was a comparison chart. Didn't bother reading the pesky fine print lol"

Yeah at $ 2.99, Amazon pays out 70% which is $ 2.093.
Streetlib wants to give the author $ 1.20?

Yeah, not sure how it works. Maybe PDR has some insight

Amazon does not pay me 70% because I am not using the Select progamme. I'm part of the UK Commonwealth and have other markets, bookshops and distributors. I find limiting myself to the KDP Select is limiting as far as sales go.

I am looking to get my books into a lot of the English language book sites/shops in many different countries. StreetLib does that. They also offer translation possibilities which should be better than looking for non-native speakers claiming to be translators on Ffivr!

At the Amazon 30% rate I do better elsewhere.

Just noticed you are talking dollars. Sorry I am talking euros can't see dollars on the site!

Thank you, Alex, but I have a hard time convincing Amazon that.

It's okay on my print versions but not for my e-books!