Kindle

[Bebeslut]

I can't exactly say I am tearing the publishing world apart, but I can make the claim that I am earning money on my Kindle sales.
Yes, folks, my short story collection, Dirty, Sexy Girls, has sold two copies so far. My public domain copy of The Education of a Poker Player is doing twice as well!
Actually, I think Amazon may buy the first copy of each book available itself, for Amazon's own purposes. When Dirty, Sexy Girls went live, it sold a copy with the first 12 hours. The poker book sold a copy within the first couple of days. Then a long drought for both.
Whatever. I'm just happy there's someone out there reading my stuff. (I can say that about the poker book because I wrote a new introduction.)

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I can't exactly say I am tearing the publishing world apart, but I can make the claim that I am earning money on my Kindle sales.
Yes, folks, my short story collection, Dirty, Sexy Girls, has sold two copies so far. My public domain copy of The Education of a Poker Player is doing twice as well!
Actually, I think Amazon may buy the first copy of each book available itself, for Amazon's own purposes. When Dirty, Sexy Girls went live, it sold a copy with the first 12 hours. The poker book sold a copy within the first couple of days. Then a long drought for both.
Whatever. I'm just happy there's someone out there reading my stuff. (I can say that about the poker book because I wrote a new introduction.)

Don't get too excited. I broke a coffee table leg and bought 2 of each.



Q_C

 

[Bebeslut]

Don't get too excited. I broke a coffee table leg and bought 2 of each.



Q_C

LOL! Have your considered doorstops?

 

[pimpette_f]

How do you post your stories to sell them for Kindle readers??? Is there a site that gives direction for that?

 

[MzDeviancy]

I can't exactly say I am tearing the publishing world apart, but I can make the claim that I am earning money on my Kindle sales.
Yes, folks, my short story collection, Dirty, Sexy Girls, has sold two copies so far. My public domain copy of The Education of a Poker Player is doing twice as well!
Actually, I think Amazon may buy the first copy of each book available itself, for Amazon's own purposes. When Dirty, Sexy Girls went live, it sold a copy with the first 12 hours. The poker book sold a copy within the first couple of days. Then a long drought for both.
Whatever. I'm just happy there's someone out there reading my stuff. (I can say that about the poker book because I wrote a new introduction.)

Hey, a lot of aspiring authors never manage to sell even one story, so props ;o)

 

[Bebeslut]

How do you post your stories to sell them for Kindle readers??? Is there a site that gives direction for that?

Just go to the Amazon site and look for a link about publishing on the Kindle. It's easy.

 

[MagicaPractica]

How much do you earn, per copy bought, for something in that vein? I might have to consider it. Oh, congratulations.

 

[Bebeslut]

How much do you earn, per copy bought, for something in that vein? I might have to consider it. Oh, congratulations.

Depends on how high you price it. You get 70% for an original work and 35% for a public domain work. I actually get as much for the public domain book as I do for the original, as I have it priced twice as much.

 

[polynices]

Royalties and Taxes

I had a look at Amazon's material on Kindle publishing the other day. I think it said that if you choose the 70% royalty option, they hold back 35% of that 70% for taxes. Is this true or did I misunderstand?

There may be some confusion here, because they've only recently extended the 70% royalty option to UK authors and the information they've put online so far may be incomplete. (Until recently, apparently, the 70% option was restricted to the US; everyone else had to settle for 35% of royalties - as the rest of the world still does.)

At first sight, it seems unfair if UK authors have to pay 35% of their earnings into the American tax system - but I may have misunderstood this wildly. I'd be grateful for any clarification anyone can offer.

-polynices

 

[Bebeslut]

Who can answer this?

I had a look at Amazon's material on Kindle publishing the other day. I think it said that if you choose the 70% royalty option, they hold back 35% of that 70% for taxes. Is this true or did I misunderstand?

There may be some confusion here, because they've only recently extended the 70% royalty option to UK authors and the information they've put online so far may be incomplete. (Until recently, apparently, the 70% option was restricted to the US; everyone else had to settle for 35% of royalties - as the rest of the world still does.)

At first sight, it seems unfair if UK authors have to pay 35% of their earnings into the American tax system - but I may have misunderstood this wildly. I'd be grateful for any clarification anyone can offer.

-polynices

 

[sr71plt]

Isn't there a separate UK Amazon system? One of my publishers tells me he has to submit to two different Amazon.com systems.

 

[polynices]

Isn't there a separate UK Amazon system? One of my publishers tells me he has to submit to two different Amazon.com systems.

There may be a separate UK System - there certainly is for Amazon's main UK business and Amazon Marketplace. But I got the impression that Kindle publishing is still run exclusively from the US. (However, that was a few days ago and - as I said earlier - I think Amazon may still be in the process of clarifying the royalties system for the UK.)

Just out of interest, how does the American Kindle royalties system work in practice? My understanding is that a US author can opt for either 35% royalties or 70% royalties if the work is original. At the moment, though, I can't see any obvious advantage in choosing to take a 35% royalty when you could have 70%.

I'm also unclear how the 35% (of 70%) tax retention by Amazon works in America. Is that money paid to the US government, or does it eventually come to the author after certain conditions have been met?

- polynices

 

[Bebeslut]

Isn't there a separate UK Amazon system? One of my publishers tells me he has to submit to two different Amazon.com systems.

I was able to set up both at the same time. Look at my sig: I have separate urls for the american and the british kindle stores.

 

[Bebeslut]

You get 70% for original material and 35% if you are publishing someone else's material, as I did with the poker book.

There may be a separate UK System - there certainly is for Amazon's main UK business and Amazon Marketplace. But I got the impression that Kindle publishing is still run exclusively from the US. (However, that was a few days ago and - as I said earlier - I think Amazon may still be in the process of clarifying the royalties system for the UK.)

Just out of interest, how does the American Kindle royalties system work in practice? My understanding is that a US author can opt for either 35% royalties or 70% royalties if the work is original. At the moment, though, I can't see any obvious advantage in choosing to take a 35% royalty when you could have 70%.

I'm also unclear how the 35% (of 70%) tax retention by Amazon works in America. Is that money paid to the US government, or does it eventually come to the author after certain conditions have been met?

- polynices