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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on May 23, 2020 20:06:50 GMT
Herr Benziger,
If you do Amazon through KDP [Print or Ebook], you avoid the Lulu Press mark up on price and you hit all the Amazons.
I did my Kindle Mobi format Ebooks through KDP and they're on all the various Amazons. I'll be doing the Amazon versions of my prints within six to eight weeks.
Spanish, hmmm, might have to see if the spouse wants to do some interpreting for me...
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2020 20:18:28 GMT
Everything is clear except for why you squint at Streetlib. If someone offered me 70% of book sales and sold a million of my books, it would be better that if I got to keep 95% and that company sold five books. I'm being over the top with the numbers just to demonstrate my point. I uploaded three ebooks to Ingram Spark in the last few months and I have made one ebook sale. Will I be using them for ebooks again? Never. E-books are new territory for me. Are you addressing Amazon through KDP - or through Lulu? At Streetlib you can choose from about 50 partners: e.g. all except Amazon and Amazon offers through another service. At Streetlib I see the advantage that (besides Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo) they have two German speaking providers under contract. (also Italian, Spanish, etc.) If you offer books in these languages, this is obvious to me. For ebooks I've used KDP. Lulu, Ingram Spark, Streetlib and PublishDrive. Language had nothing to do with it. Just testing every place. People all over the world bought English books. Fastest response, highest everything, professional, customer service, meticulous posting, no errors, was the Italian company. |
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Post by benziger on May 27, 2020 12:17:38 GMT
English is really read all over the world. But there is also a corresponding amount of writing. I publish in other languages with significantly fewer readers (but also less competition). - Alemannic (more precisely: in the High Alemannic of Zurich) - Lingala- German - French ("la plus belle des langues") The first two languages have about 1 and 20* million speakers respectively, but are not languages of teaching. The number of readers is correspondingly small. This is not to earn money, this is more a hobby - or a mission...
* I do not known, where the 70 million in the English Wikipedia comes from. A decade ago, it was 2-5 million and I recalculated it from various spources for the Lingala Wikipedia to about 20 million. In every case, this numbers are estimations.
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