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  • Brooke Warner commented on her article Distribution 101
    ...llment to bookstores and other retailers. They sell everything from Big 5 publishers' books to self-published books. They even fulfill to Amazon customers. There is no sales team invol...
  • ...s but now it has increased to 100. Ranking is important because it helps you be found by potential readers. Amazon routinely recommends books to customers but not if you rank 100,000 f...
  • ...her or not you are in it because you must write, or because you want to make money.  As was said, a potential customer base of millions vs a few customers spread over years.   And I s...
  • ...for computers and landline phone services. The companies made billions of dollars in revenue (and profits) because they won the perception war. Customers bought the hype (real or perc...
  • ...ith a 50% restocking fee on "paper" books and higher on e-books, most customers will be careful to only purch...azon feature and other forms of electronic samples, this seems fair.  Customers are gaming the system by usin...
  • Cate, to be really clear, the returns "problem" is not customers returning their purchases; it's retailers ordering more than they can ever sell and returning in bulk to distributors w...
  • Yes, Cate, exactly. But books are returnable, even from customers. I think if it's clearly used or the spine is broken in a bookstore probably wouldn't take the book back, but technica...
  • ...ensive advertising, would ever pay off, or even close to it. I'd like to see a PR company that provides actual data such as 'on the average, our customers' sales rose X percent, or fro...
  • ...have them on their websites). I've built relationships with them. But it does sting that one turned me down because I was self-published...after customers came in requesting my books....
  • Brooke Warner commented on her article What Are E-Books Worth?
    ...f Amazon were consistent in the percentages it takes then all would be well. If they just gave the 70/30 split across the board to Kindle Direct customers as well as to its publisher c...