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[Selena_Kitt]

To repeat, Ace's e-book is not listed at Amazon.com as of a few minutes ago. Google on "Amazon.com" and key in Selena Kitt as I said, and you will find "Cruising Through History" by habu (Ace). Can you buy it as an e-book (Kindle) from Amazon.com? No, not yet. But it won't be long. I'll let you know when. You can Google on "Kindle Store" and find Ace's e-book listed, just as you can go to the Kindle Store via the link that Queen eXcessica provided.

I'm posting the ACTUAL LINK here... so you can see with your own rheumy old eyes (put on your glasses, okay? It will help!) that it starts with

www.amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Cruising-Thro...?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1236606905&sr=1-1

I think the Viagra's gone to your head, Spoutrahhhhmazon! Too much blood diverted to other places or something?

Again: Cruising Through History Kindle edition.

 

[sarahhh]

I'm posting the ACTUAL LINK here... so you can see with your own rheumy old eyes (put on your glasses, okay? It will help!) that it starts with

www.amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Cruising-Thro...?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1236606905&sr=1-1

I think the Viagra's gone to your head, Spoutrahhhhmazon! Too much blood diverted to other places or something?

Again: Cruising Through History Kindle edition.

You're still going back to the Kindle Store, not Amazon.com. So click on the link for Amazon.com you provide. Now you are at Amazon.com, not the Kindle Store. Enter "Selena Kitt" and find "Cruising Through History" and you will note it is not yet available for sale as an e-book (Kindle) at Amazon.com. But it will be soon.

Why does that matter? Well, a whole lot more people are going to Amazon.com to buy books than to the Kindle Store. I doubt all that many people who are just readers even know about the Kindle Store. That's why the e-book will be listed as available for sale on Amazon.com real soon. But as of now, it is not.

 

[sarahhh]

I can tell you don't live near a real ocean. That's just a weekend sailboat--and a pretty small one at that. That ain't no yacht.

Do a Google on "free photo of ocean yacht." Click on the "copyright-free-photos.org.uk" site. Oh my, there's the pic on the cover of the book in my avatar.

Now, it says that is an ocean yacht. You say it's not. Whatever. Jim can have any pic on the cover of his book that floats his boat.

Please note that the pic is copyright-free. I know how you like to throw out the accusations about somebody violating this or that on the covers.

 

[sarahhh]

I think Sarahh's obsession is that Amazon is the only place you can buy her four-year-old self-published print-on-demand book. She can't really be blamed for (unsuccessfully) trying to make that relevant to erotica sales.

LMFAO. This is like taking candy from a baby. Or in your case, the queen taking all the profits from the sale of your books.

YOUR print book is only available at Amazon. Because your book has an ISBN furnished by CreateSpace/Amazon. You can find my book at many other places, including other big sellers like Barnes and Noble and Books A Million.

I'm not all that interested in talking about my old books anyway, including the erotic e-book I had published, which you can't seem to find. I'm more interested in talking about my new books that are "ready" to be published. The only reason my old books come up is that the kittens bring it up to take cheap shots.

 

[sarahhh]

Oh, I know Selena isn't all that fond of me. I guess that doesn't bother me as much as it does for you to know that she isn't fond of me--but is even less fond of you (for good reason, I can clearly see).

I don't go in for team sports much--even on Internet chat boards. Just call 'em the way I see 'em. And I don't let it get to me. (Knowing that it gets to you and others is half my fun.)

And as I've noted to you before, all of your trouble with me was by your choice. I left you alone until you opened up on me. Stopping it is also your choice. Always has been.

Actually, all your trouble with me is your choice, the way I see it.

On 02-26-2009 your queen took a shot at me over on the "Literotica Authors and Their Books (For Literotica Authors ONLY) thread. Right out of the blue on a thread I don't post on, much.

She said, "Unless you get your book published by your uncle and give out fake naked pictures of your breast in return for good reviews on Amazon or something. And even then, alas, sales fall off when you put out nothing new for four years...

Poooooor Spoutrahhhhhh.... " (Post #1169, page 47)

And you piled on with your mindless drivel.

Now, if you can find some place where we had "issues" before that, please enlighten me.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Okayyyyyyy then, you keep on doing whatever you're doing with that dead horse.

This thread's dropping off my radar again... time for some fresh air!

 

[michchick98]

To repeat, Ace's e-book is not listed at Amazon.com as of a few minutes ago. Google on "Amazon.com" and key in Selena Kitt as I said, and you will find "Cruising Through History" by habu (Ace). Can you buy it as an e-book (Kindle) from Amazon.com? No, not yet. But it won't be long. I'll let you know when. You can Google on "Kindle Store" and find Ace's e-book listed, just as you can go to the Kindle Store via the link that Queen eXcessica provided.

Geezus, when you obsess about something you really go all out, don't you butch? Give it a rest already.

 

[michchick98]

You're still going back to the Kindle Store, not Amazon.com.

Okay, leaving myself wondering why I'm arguing this with you, what part of the URL didn't you see in that link Selena provided? I believe it starts out http://www.amazon.com

So THAT would make it AMAZON'S website. Going to the AMAZON homepage, using the pull down menu and finding BOOKS and doing a search of Cruising Through History generates the same fucking link she provided with this very line printed across the top of the page:

Start reading Cruising Through History on your Kindle in under a minute.

Or the general search page from the AMAZON homepage:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g...eld-keywords=Cruising+Through+History&x=0&y=0

Gee, looky there, the first two books listed are Cruising Through History...one in paperback and one for the AMAZON KINDLE.


But once more, and in larger font so you understand:

AMAZON

PRODUCES

AND

DISTRIBUTES

THE

KINDLE

READER

Just because it says Kindle Store, doesn't mean it's not part of Amazon.com you twit. I'm done arguing this with you. Your pea-brain just doesn't get it.

 

[lloyd_5]

Do a Google on "free photo of ocean yacht." Click on the "copyright-free-photos.org.uk" site. Oh my, there's the pic on the cover of the book in my avatar.

Now, it says that is an ocean yacht. You say it's not. Whatever. Jim can have any pic on the cover of his book that floats his boat.

Please note that the pic is copyright-free. I know how you like to throw out the accusations about somebody violating this or that on the covers.

Well, not actually. The photo IS copyright and IS NOT in the public domain. It can be used royalty free if you abide by the copyright holder's terms;

Terms & Limitations of use:
1)copyright-free-photos.org.uk must be credited as the copyright holders wherever Copyright Free Photos are used.
2) For internet use, no more than three individual free photos shall be used on any given URL or website and a link back to this Copyright Free Photos website must be provided.

Guess you breach both of these.

 

[michchick98]

Well, not actually. The photo IS copyright and IS NOT in the public domain. It can be used royalty free if you abide by the copyright holder's terms;

Terms & Limitations of use:
1)copyright-free-photos.org.uk must be credited as the copyright holders wherever Copyright Free Photos are used.
2) For internet use, no more than three individual free photos shall be used on any given URL or website and a link back to this Copyright Free Photos website must be provided.

Guess you breach both of these.

S/he missed this one too:

"Our own Free Photos & Free Images are not in the Public Domain."

But don't argue with scourahh. S/he knows what s/he's talking about. That'll be the next topic that gets beaten to death.

 

[scouries]

QUOTE serena I'm still waiting for her to give us the sales numbers. I'd love to hear what she sold from the Almighty Amazon over the last four years. I'd bet you our ebooks for 2nd-4th quarter last year alone outsold her in numbers…And yet, the deaf will not hear, the blind will not see…

I don’t know what the wonderful sarahhh’s numbers were but I’m always quite happy to provide my ROYALTY earning sales numbers to interested parties!

They were originally posted back in early January but I think you probably were still in the big house at that time and hence missed them.

So my dear here they are. But you do have to open your eyes to see…and unblock your ears to hear...

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2008 YEARLY RECAP​

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TOTAL YEARLY SALES: 3,090,431

TOTAL YEARLY VOTES: 23,054​

I’m james r scouries and I think the QUEEN should publicize every authors numbers…

[size=+2]Dolphins would love to see our “mentally challenged” members numbers…[/size]

 

[sr71plt]

To repeat, Ace's e-book is not listed at Amazon.com as of a few minutes ago. Google on "Amazon.com" and key in Selena Kitt as I said, and you will find "Cruising Through History" by habu (Ace). Can you buy it as an e-book (Kindle) from Amazon.com? No, not yet. But it won't be long. I'll let you know when. You can Google on "Kindle Store" and find Ace's e-book listed, just as you can go to the Kindle Store via the link that Queen eXcessica provided.

And I care that you are pretending you don't know how to search on Amazon.com (and somehow think you need to get to my books by clicking Selena's name) and won't click on a URL provided for you here because . . . ?

Real buyers know how to use it.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm more interested in talking about my new books that are "ready" to be published.

Yes, let's. When, where, by whom? When can we see it on lists where the erotica available is compared by quality and sales?

Put your action where your mouth is, babe.

 

[sr71plt]

QUOTE serena I'm still waiting for her to give us the sales numbers. I'd love to hear what she sold from the Almighty Amazon over the last four years. I'd bet you our ebooks for 2nd-4th quarter last year alone outsold her in numbers…And yet, the deaf will not hear, the blind will not see…

I don’t know what the wonderful sarahhh’s numbers were but I’m always quite happy to provide my ROYALTY earning sales numbers to interested parties!

They were originally posted back in early January but I think you probably were still in the big house at that time and hence missed them.

So my dear here they are. But you do have to open your eyes to see…and unblock your ears to hear...

[size=+2]

2008 YEARLY RECAP​

[/size]

TOTAL YEARLY SALES: 3,090,431

TOTAL YEARLY VOTES: 23,054​

I’m james r scouries and I think the QUEEN should publicize every authors numbers…

[size=+2]Dolphins would love to see our “mentally challenged” members numbers…[/size]

"Royalties" refers to money, not imaginary unit numbers. So all of this time you just haven't understood what royalties means. That explains a lot.

As for royalty number, just have them posted by Laurel. Until then they are ScouriesWorld numbers--just like the rest of ScouriesWorld.

 

[sr71plt]

Do a Google on "free photo of ocean yacht." Click on the "copyright-free-photos.org.uk" site. Oh my, there's the pic on the cover of the book in my avatar.

Now, it says that is an ocean yacht. You say it's not. Whatever. Jim can have any pic on the cover of his book that floats his boat.

Please note that the pic is copyright-free. I know how you like to throw out the accusations about somebody violating this or that on the covers.

Search engines on those photo sites are set to take into account all possible words someone would search on. Since there would be a lot of people like you who thought a dingy was a yacht, they included small sailboats in that catagory.

You've already now been corrected by others on your right to use the image as you have done. Guess you don't understand copyright as well as you thought you did, huh?

 

[michchick98]

Oh and right on the FRONT PAGE of the site butch used for the cover:

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Terms & Limitations of use:
1) www.copyright-free-photos.org.uk must be credited as the copyright holders wherever Copyright Free Photos are used.
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So could this cover be considered for educational use? Probably not. Non-commercial use? Well, if you're not planning on advertising and marketing said book, then yeah, it'd be non-commercial.

Have fun tripping over yourself to argue about this one, butch.

 

[sr71plt]

Actually, all your trouble with me is your choice, the way I see it.

On 02-26-2009 your queen took a shot at me over on the "Literotica Authors and Their Books (For Literotica Authors ONLY) thread. Right out of the blue on a thread I don't post on, much.

She said, "Unless you get your book published by your uncle and give out fake naked pictures of your breast in return for good reviews on Amazon or something. And even then, alas, sales fall off when you put out nothing new for four years...

Poooooor Spoutrahhhhhh.... " (Post #1169, page 47)

And you piled on with your mindless drivel.

Now, if you can find some place where we had "issues" before that, please enlighten me.

Once again you try to rewrite thread history that is there for anyone to check out on their own.

You opened up on me with post #5730 on this thread at 2:05 pm on 25 February.

The post you refer to on the other thread was #1173 at 2:31 pm on 26 February--a full day after you opened up on me.

Again, you made the choice. And the choice is still yours. I'm quite pleased with how this has gone so far.

 

[sarahhh]

So could this cover be considered for educational use? Probably not. Non-commercial use? Well, if you're not planning on advertising and marketing said book, then yeah, it'd be non-commercial.

Of course it's educational use. I used it to demonstrate to scouries and anyone else who wants to publish a book how easy it is to create a cover themselves in a few minutes. Or they could pay a "professional" big bucks.

But hey, you go on and on and on about much ado about nothing like you usually do.

 

[sr71plt]

Of course it's educational use. I used it to demonstrate to scouries and anyone else who wants to publish a book how easy it is to create a cover themselves in a few minutes. Or they could pay a "professional" big bucks.

But hey, you go on and on and on about much ado about nothing like you usually do.

Ummm, no. You're using it as your Avatar on a porn site.

 

[sarahhh]

Or the general search page from the AMAZON homepage:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g...eld-keywords=Cruising+Through+History&x=0&y=0

Gee, looky there, the first two books listed are Cruising Through History...one in paperback and one for the AMAZON KINDLE.

And if you click on the paperback you will note (at least as of one minute ago) it does not state "Also Available in: Kindle Edition" like it does on his queen's books. It does not state "Start reading____________in under a minute" but instead states "I'd like to read this book on Kindle" and if you click that, there is another blurb about sending a request to the publisher.

Hey, I said it wouldn't take long. It probably won't take long to get the paperback updated with the Kindle info either.

So are you saying there is no delay in getting an e-book listed on Amazon.com when you create it via Digital Text Platform for Kindle? As soon as you create the book on DTP it goes to the Kindle Store and is available for sale. But it appears to me there is a delay in getting it listed on Amazon.com.

 

[sarahhh]

You made a very valid point over on the “Literotica Authors and Their Books (For Literotica Authors ONLY) yesterday when you said, “. . . selling a book is a whole heck of a lot harder than either writing it or getting it printed.”

Exactly. Those are your words. Anybody can write a book and get it printed. Ah, but now the real issue—selling it.

So direct me to a book in print of yours that has sold well at Amazon.com.

Frankly, I doubt any of the authors here who go on and on incessantly about their wonderful books (and castigate certain others about not being published) can point me to a book in print of theirs at Amazon.com that reflects having made much more than enough scratch to feed the chickens. And the e-books are even more much ado about mostly nothing.

And if you would have looked at his profile, you wouldn't have to ask 6 times.

This is the post you referred to.

Wow, you call that going off on you?

 

[sarahhh]

Ummm, no. You're using it as your Avatar on a porn site.

As an educational tool.

I like your avatar. Nothing does seem appropriate in your case.

 

[sr71plt]

This is the post you referred to.

Wow, you call that going off on you?

Yep. Who did you think you were fooling?

Again, your choice. All of it. You enjoying what's happening to you here in response to your (among others) silly attacks and heckling? Just keep doing it. I'm quite pleased with how it's unraveling.

 

[sr71plt]

As an educational tool.

I like your avatar. Nothing does seem appropriate in your case.

Yep, don't need no stinking Avatar.

But, as usual, you clumsily try to sidestep the box you've painted yourself into.

 

[michchick98]

Of course it's educational use. I used it to demonstrate to scouries and anyone else who wants to publish a book how easy it is to create a cover themselves in a few minutes. Or they could pay a "professional" big bucks.

But hey, you go on and on and on about much ado about nothing like you usually do.

And besides the people who aren't you and Queen Freddie and Queen Scouries, what are you demonstrating exactly?

Are you demonstrating it's okay to take an image from any site and use it for a book cover? Because that's what it looks like your little demonstration implies. If you're using that image for a book cover which will eventually generate monetary gain, then it's commercial use, not educational you dimwit and therefore, according to the Terms of Use for that site, you're not allowed to use it.

And I don't pay a professional big bucks for my book covers. About $20 gets me credits at a stock photo site and I can get 10 - 15 images with that $20, sometimes more, depending on how much each image costs in credits.

I either do them myself or Selena does them. Of course, you'll toss in a cheap shot about how crappy the cover(s) turned out, but you know, that's okay. I know my work and Selena's work is still leaps and bounds above yours....and LEGAL to use.

So you keep up your new argument about "I'm demonstrating" and keep spouting off about how much you (don't) know about cover art and I'll sit back and laugh at your obvious ignorance.

Have a nice day, sunshine.

NOT!