Comments for The Passive Voice http://www.thepassivevoice.com A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Kindle Unlimited Payout Ties Record Low $1.33 in March 2015 by Josie Litton http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/kindle-unlimited-payout-ties-record-low-1-33-in-march-2015/#comment-297591 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:00:03 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61734#comment-297591 I’ve done this and I suppose it’s had some impact but I’ve come to the conclusion that having a full-length novel in KU doesn’t make any sense. I’ll take it and the trilogy it’s part of wide in July. I’m also following the same strategy as Jen, prepping a series for KU with much shorter episodes. Given how voracious readers can be, I don’t see how this works for Amazon financially but until they decide to change the pay-out terms, I don’t see much choice except to write shorter works.

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Comment on Object Lesson – Why we need physical books by DaveMich http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/object-lesson-why-we-need-physical-books/#comment-297590 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:55:01 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61720#comment-297590 The sad thing is that so many of those things were valued in some way. When living, you could never get the owner to consider divesting themselves of some of them, let alone throwing them in the trash, yet when they pass on, many if not most just get tossed in a dumpster. It makes you consider your own valuation of items differently.

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Comment on Kindle Unlimited Payout Ties Record Low $1.33 in March 2015 by Barbara Morgenroth http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/kindle-unlimited-payout-ties-record-low-1-33-in-march-2015/#comment-297589 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:53:05 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61734#comment-297589 One of the top bestsellers on Amazon told me a few days ago that KU is about visibility and wholeheartedly recommended it as a marketing tool. Put the 1st book of your series in etc.

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Comment on Kindle Unlimited Payout Ties Record Low $1.33 in March 2015 by Richard Pemberly http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/kindle-unlimited-payout-ties-record-low-1-33-in-march-2015/#comment-297588 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:36:38 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61734#comment-297588 There are really two viable strategies here. Use kindle select for when it makes sense. For example a serial, and then don’t use it otherwise. Or go all in on kindle select and try to grow select. More subscribers means more money. If the number of subscribers stays the same , more sales will just mean less money for each sale.

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Comment on Kindle Unlimited Payout Ties Record Low $1.33 in March 2015 by Jen Rasmussen http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/kindle-unlimited-payout-ties-record-low-1-33-in-march-2015/#comment-297587 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:35:54 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61734#comment-297587 I’m starting a serial this summer to reach the KU audience. My full length novels aren’t/won’t be in Select and I don’t like leaving all those potential readers on the table, but I think episodic stories are the only way the subscription model, as Amazon’s applying it anyway, makes sense for the writer.

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Comment on Kindle Unlimited Payout Ties Record Low $1.33 in March 2015 by Mia http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/kindle-unlimited-payout-ties-record-low-1-33-in-march-2015/#comment-297586 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:16:59 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61734#comment-297586 The people absolutely making bank with this scheme are the serial writers.

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Comment on Object Lesson – Why we need physical books by Mia http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/object-lesson-why-we-need-physical-books/#comment-297585 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:13:21 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61720#comment-297585 Yeah. I mean part of it is, for me, yes we are doing a bit of fixing up of our home (we’ve been in it a long time now) but more than anything, I want to save my heirs from having to go through a house packed to the brim with stuff.

It’s exhausting and stressful. And I can honestly say it changed the way I viewed my relatives, to some degree, having to sort through their lifetimes of detritus. I want my kids (and hopefully grandkids) to have happy memories of time spent with us, not memories of spending half a year cleaning out our house before they can sell it. Instead of living their lives and raising their own families or whatever they should be doing at that time.

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Comment on I cannot sleep by Tom Simon http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/i-cannot-sleep/#comment-297584 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:10:52 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61479#comment-297584 On the other hand, it’s hard to build a really cool fort out of a Kindle.

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Comment on First Bookstore Dedicated to Self-Published Authors Opens in Florida by Liana Mir http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/first-bookstore-dedicated-to-self-published-authors-opens-in-florida/#comment-297583 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:57:40 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61731#comment-297583 Turns out it was local only, not indie only.

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Comment on One Billion Reader Views on Wattpad = Publishing and Movie Deal by Megan Bryce http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2015/one-billion-reader-views-on-wattpad-publishing-and-movie-deal/#comment-297582 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:55:28 +0000 http://www.thepassivevoice.com/?p=61726#comment-297582 Oh, there’s no way I would ever post a WIP. I put up my completed works (my schedule is every day not every week while I’m posting, though). I’m surprised by just how much I love the interaction on the site. It’s like watching people read my books and I’m learning a ton about how I write. Does it lead to an increase in sales? I haven’t noticed any (but I don’t have any way to track). But I am so glad I tried it, and I have plans to rotate my books in and out of Wattpad, treating it kind of like a digital library.

I don’t write YA, not even close (but it is romance), and 3 of my four books are ranked in the top 600.

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