More Royalties (I wish!) + e-Books

[ellen_kushner]

I hope I made it clear in my previous post (meaning: I'm fairly sure I didn't) that my recent royalty check from Thomas the Rhymer was more than $53.71 -- that sum was just the amount necessary to push it over the edge into Earn Out territory.

Also, further late-night scrutiny of the data (when I should have been working on new short story) reveals

Comments

[jay_of_lasgalen]

I'm delighted to have contributed to the e-book royalties! I got a Kindle a couple of months ago, and promptly downloaded Swordspoint, Privilege of the Sword, and Fall of the Kings. And of course that meant I had to read them all again ...

[ellen_kushner]

...So you don't have *Thomas*? (she said in her best guilt-inducing Jewish Mother voice).

OK, no, but really - that is very cool. Kindle, yay! Thank you.

[jay_of_lasgalen]

I do have Thomas, but bought a second-hand hardback through Amazon, as I couldn't find it new anywhere :(

[redbird]

.01% seems awfully low; did the decimals and fractions get confused somewhere?

[ellen_kushner]

Oh, probably. But it's something like that; believe me, the amount of $$ per book that an author sees is pretty low. That's why we need to sell LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS before we can make an honest living.

[chaoticgoodnik]

It's not out of the realm of possibility to encounter mass market paperbacks going for 9.99 these days - though usually those are the thicker ones. 7.99 and 8.99 seem more typical.

Thomas the Rhymer

[tourist_city]

I've a Sony Reader so I can buy my ebooks from either Sony or Borders (and sometimes B&Noble). Thomas is a cool $5.78. It's prime directive/antecedent on PoemHunter is free, but yours is longer I'm told. I'm reminded of the 1984 quandary between buying a cairn terrior (a la Toto) or buying that cool new computer, a Macintosh (128k!). Let's get both!

Re: Thomas the Rhymer

[ellen_kushner]

Love your icon!

It's prime directive/antecedent on PoemHunter is free, but yours is longer I'm told.

Well, yeah; I had to make a lot of stuff up. But people these days, they like things like character and motivation . . . One hates to disappoint them. Though "free" is, of course, always attractive.

[sheffsfic]

The last time I tried to buy a copy of TPOTS on Stanza it wouldn't sell it to me because I'm not in the US.