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25 years old next month!

I can hardly believe it, but Kima Global will turn 25 next month and our first title Rising out of Chaos – The New Heaven and the New Earth is still in print on Amazon. The author Simon Peter Fuller who has now retired to Sri Lanka is currently writing a new edition to be published as an e-book.

In honour of the occasion we are offering a free gift of a .pdf download of this seminal work, very much ahead of its time when first published , but now absolutely relevant to today’s world.  This will be valid until the end of August 2017. Click here to get it!

We are still offering South Africans a range of titles at bargain prices. There are too many to list here, but please visit our web site to explore what is on offer.

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Mad March Hare Specials

We have been having a look at some of our older and under-appreciated titles and realise that we can offer incredible value on them, so in the next few days I will be posting these offers. They will be available until the end of March.

John Poynton writes exceptionally well, easy and flowing writing that carries you forward and telling an important story about the spiritually transformative effects of the Wilderness Experience.

So the first of the offers will be John Poynton’s Transformation Series where every buyer will get for books for the price of two when bought through us. Read more here.

This applies to our South African readers. Readers in the U.S.A., the U.K. or Australia will have to click on the appropriate flag and choose their currency.

Amazon customers will get a FREE Kindle edition when purchasing any of his books.John Poynton

 

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A new level of desperation in bookstores?

We have known for some time that bookstores are struggling, but the latest two developments at Exclusive Books (South Africa’s biggest and most prestigious book chain) smack of a new level of either desperation or at least a change of tack from selling books. Let me explain.

Firstly, an edict has gone out from the owner that all book purchases (even of one book) now have to be approved by head office. It seems like they no longer trust the managers to buy even on sale or return. This is likely to work out in practice that an approved list will be developed which will include only books from the most popular authors and the two or three biggest publishing houses. This will exclude orders to all the smaller and independent publishers like ourselves.

This sounds like the death knell to smaller publishers, but in fact we have been working on what are known as special sales (non book store sales) for some time now and have become less dependent on book shops. Our main motivation was the wafer thin or non-existent profit margin in bookstore sales what with the high discounts (47.5% + 2.5% payment discount) demanded, the costs of courier delivery and the returns. It is sad to see them go, but in the end no loss to us.

Secondly, the owner of Exclusive Books has (or will shortly) establish a Tapas Bar as part of his flagship store (Hyde Park in Johannesburg). A Tapas Bar to add food to the mix . Personally I can’t see how this will bring in readers. Still it may be a profit center which will compensate for the losses in the bookstore. Good luck to him!

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We are now offering 100% royalty as an option

What do you get? We will edit, supply the ISBN and make your ebook. We will design a cover and a Facebook banner. Once you have  approved we will supply an .epub, a .mobi and a .pdf file.

The cost will be $500.00. This will suit  a  writer who is internet savvy, has a USA bank account, and the time and inclination to manage and promote their own book. That way they get to keep all the rewards.

We are still offering the 50% royalty option. On this plan we will do all of the above plus we will upload to all the major (and quite a number of lesser) platforms and manage the sites and the income. This can be quite a complex process, something not easy to master if you are doing this for the first time. The cost of this will be $400.00.

To sum up, we take away a lot of the technical complications, it costs you less, but you also only receive a 50% royalty.

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What to do with the time given us

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