A Free For All Discussion
What a nice spread of food you have. And the furnishings are perfect! Now the discussion-e-publishing may be the wave of the future and Amazon is probably going to try to corner the market. But I think others will give them a run for their money. Can you pass the pumpkin pie?
Happy Holidays!Merry Christmas, everyone! How do you like my Waldorf salad?
Amazon has a huge head start on everyone else. And when a company of that size gets a head start, they'll probably keep it, unless someone else comes up with something over-the-top innovative, or the Amazon top brass lose their edge.
I self-published two e-books on Amazon. They're really two short stories, but I published them that way in hopes of having them accepted as Amazon Singles. If that had happened, Amazon would have done the publicity for the stories. They didn't accept either story, but they're still published and being sold without me having to deal with years of rejections, the way authors do with paper manuscripts. I've gotten two teeny weeny payments for them.
Amazon has also started Amazon Prime (or is it Kindle Prime?), which is a subscription for Kindle users. Anyone who is a subscriber can read any e-book that's free or that has been enrolled in Prime. Then the authors who enrolled their books will split the several thousand dollar amount that was assigned to that quarter, based on how many times their books were read. I was glad to see that, because I knew that my stories were being lost in the masses of e-books. Not that they won't be lost in the masses of e-books enrolled in Prime...
I think that Amazon has been pretty innovative so far, by allowing authors to publish as no cost, unless they want to pay someone to make the cover art for their books. That's a big step up for most authors, and I'm sure will make a name for the best.
I hope the field widens more, but I don't think it will for a while.
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