Too Hot To Handle?

[R. Richard]

Okay, sports fans, check out my book, in Amazon. You see a text only cover. Then 'Look Inside.' Wait for the cover image to load and see what's too hot to handle. (I'm not responsible fro nay complete and total sexual overreaction.) Gimme feedback, please.

http://www.amazon.com/Amateur-Strip...ANS_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382643334&sr=1-6

 

[Stella_Omega]

The next woman who confesses uncontrollable lust for you in my PM box-- I'm gonna tell her to try white go-go boots.

 

[R. Richard]

All right, a little quiz. Where did go-go come from?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's not a bad cover...I have this one over there and Amazon never batted an eye over it, yet Smashwords did.

 

[R. Richard]

That's not a bad cover...I have this one over there and Amazon never batted an eye over it, yet Smashwords did.

Smashwords goes hyper over anything that shows a butt crack or a nipple. It might be that the cover lady is showing a pastie, but then again ...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Smashwords goes hyper over anything that shows a butt crack or a nipple. It might be that the cover lady is showing a pastie, but then again ...

No that's her nipple. open the book the pic inside is larger.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Smashwords also complained over this one, but Amazon didn't.

 

[Handley_Page]

Okay, sports fans, check out my book, in Amazon. You see a text only cover. Then 'Look Inside.' Wait for the cover image to load and see what's too hot to handle. (I'm not responsible fro nay complete and total sexual overreaction.) Gimme feedback, please.

http://www.amazon.com/Amateur-Strip...ANS_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382643334&sr=1-6

I get to see more than that modest picture on the top row of my supermarket periodicals section.

As an aside, can someone explain this:
"This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people."
If I buy a printed book, I'll do with it what I want; give it as a present, or whatever.
It seems that this is not an option with e-books.
WHY ?

 

[R. Richard]

I get to see more than that modest picture on the top row of my supermarket periodicals section.

As an aside, can someone explain this:
"This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people."
If I buy a printed book, I'll do with it what I want; give it as a present, or whatever.
It seems that this is not an option with e-books.
WHY ?

If you give or lend a printed book, that's one book. You can give or lend a million e-books, from one copy (they do have some copy protection, but there are these hackers ...)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I get to see more than that modest picture on the top row of my supermarket periodicals section.

As an aside, can someone explain this:
"This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people."
If I buy a printed book, I'll do with it what I want; give it as a present, or whatever.
It seems that this is not an option with e-books.
WHY ?

You actually don't give away the original. Yet, if you price you ebook above $2.99 Amazon doesn't allow you to uncheck the lend this book checkbox.

 

[R. Richard]

You actually don't give away the original. Yet, if you price you ebook above $2.99 Amazon doesn't allow you to uncheck the lend this book checkbox.

True, but you do get paid something, if Amazon lends your book.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

True, but you do get paid something, if Amazon lends your book.

Really? I haven't noticed any...well maybe no one wants to lend my stuff.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not that I am ever going to stick up for amazon and their BS, but this thread makes a good point.

Here we have two authors who have complained about amazon's crap yet are discussing the covers that they have "gotten away with"

well maybe if there were not so many authors like yourselves who felt the need to get away with something and pushed the bar, the rest of us who have something called common sense would not all be paying the price, now would we?

Good job guys your efforts are much appreciated.

 

[R. Richard]

Not that I am ever going to stick up for amazon and their BS, but this thread makes a good point.

Here we have two authors who have complained about amazon's crap yet are discussing the covers that they have "gotten away with"

well maybe if there were not so many authors like yourselves who felt the need to get away with something and pushed the bar, the rest of us who have something called common sense would not all be paying the price, now would we?

Good job guys your efforts are much appreciated.

When I first started to publish, I tried plain text covers and my sales were poor. It was pointed out to me that I needed better covers. I then started to put images on the covers, images that had some connection to the theme of the book, and my sales picked up. I find out that the more that my covers show, the better my sales are. I have to walk the edge of restrictions, not because I want to, but because my buyers want me to.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Not that I am ever going to stick up for amazon and their BS, but this thread makes a good point.

Here we have two authors who have complained about amazon's crap yet are discussing the covers that they have "gotten away with"

well maybe if there were not so many authors like yourselves who felt the need to get away with something and pushed the bar, the rest of us who have something called common sense would not all be paying the price, now would we?

Good job guys your efforts are much appreciated.

I didn't feel I was pushing the bar. I went on Amazon, looked around, found some covers without nudity and a lot with nudity.

I did a fairly tame cover with a topless woman in the water. Then I needed another cover with a woman who looked to be doing a striptease.

I wasn't pushing boundaries, just displaying my work as I thought it needed displaying. I never sat back and thumbed my nose at Amazon and in this thread I was just saying how two-faced Amazon is.