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Some good news for my Canadian and Australian readers
As you may know, Bob, Amazon bases foreign ebook prices on what the ebook costs in the country where it’s originally published. Since I’m an American, my ebooks are initially priced in US dollars, and then Amazon extrapolates that price into other currencies for international ‘Zon markets.
Except that this can really hurt people in markets where the local currency is lower than the US dollar. I was recently made aware that Australian and Canadian readers are getting absolutely *reamed* on book costs because of this, which is not right.
As I am not a greedy a-hole and want to keep my books at a reasonable price so that more people can read them, I have gone in and reduced the prices of my ebooks on amazon.au and amazon.ca to numerically match my American prices—i.e. most of my full-length novels will now be CAN$4.99 and AUS$4.99, with novellas being cheaper. My one historical romance Behind the Iron Cross is the outlier at $5.99 in both countries, but it’s a huge book so it costs a buck more. I’ll be analyzing costs in other countries and applying additional corrections as needed, and once I learn the pricing controls on Draft2Digital I’ll be doing the same over there.
What can I say? I’m all about keeping readers happy.
I’m Back. Again.
Crystal Blade Episode 36: A Cousinly Talk is now live on Kindle Vella. Go forth, read, enjoy.
So where have I been for the last week or so? Well, basically I felt like absolute crap, had little to no energy, and wasn’t in any position to focus on writing. My guess is a viral sinus infection combined with a bunch of shit in the air pretty much knocking me on my ass.
So I gave myself permission to take the week off, rest, and only do stuff that I could do on autopilot; namely, finish reformatting all the titles that I’d pulled out of KU and publish them wide.
As of 7/7/23 every title that currently isn’t in KU (I’m still waiting on “Prelude to a Storm”‘s KU period to expire later this month) was published on Smashwords and Google Play. I’m currently waiting for Smashwords to review everything and pass it onto their Premiere Catalog which gets distributed to its partners. Once that happens, I’ll update my universal links for every book and then I’m pretty much wide for the duration.
To be honest, I’m glad I did it. I keep hearing from people still in KU that their payouts are continuing to drop despite Amazon raising the subscription price, plus there’s the whole mess of Amazon threatening to yank accounts when they find a KU title on a pirate site. As for me, I’m actually making about the same wide as I had in KU, plus I’m making additional money from Vella. So I’m not complaining.
In the meantime I have five more chapters to finish on Crystal Blade and it is done done done. If I get a move on I may be able to do that by EOB Saturday, I dunno (and yes, Susan, as soon as that’s done I’m pivoting to High Tide). I have to leave a Vella story up for thirty days after I publish the last episode, so once Blade is done I’ll set up a pre-order for it on Amazon for mid-August or so.
So it goes.
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