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Out of all the sales I've ever had on nookpress, maybe ten of them were international. It's not a great loss. On a different note, is Exitica worth publishing on? I just opened an account but this system looks worse than even ARE.
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Sundae posted:Beautiful. Just what I wanted to see while going wide back to the only other even remotely viable platform. I've been making more through iBooks for over a year. Honestly, my BN sales have been tanking since early 2013.
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# ? Jul 10, 2015 03:21 |
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Hey boyos, I'm looking into getting back into writing more consistently and am in need of a new portable writing device. I literally only need two things: a word processor of some sort and internet connection. Does anyone have a suggestion for something I can use at the coffee shop or work or where ever? I saw a Chromebook for $170 on Amazon, it seems pretty good imo but I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VQP3DNY/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_nytOvbYSVS6Y6
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# ? Jul 11, 2015 16:31 |
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Roar posted:Hey boyos, I'm guessing you're aware of this, but just in case: chromebooks can't install software unless you monkey around in developer mode, so you're limited to using apps you can access through a web browser. Likely that means google docs. That's cool for some, but not for everyone.
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# ? Jul 11, 2015 16:36 |
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I figured. I haven't had a lot of experience with google docs but I could get used to it.
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# ? Jul 11, 2015 19:27 |
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I've used a cheaper Chromebook than that as my main writing rig for a while. It's OK, not great. My one suggestion of to write in smaller segments because Google Docs on cheapo Chromebooks will choke on novel sized files. So long as you do your prepress/covers on a more powerful computer you'll be fine (and how could you create covers on one of them anyway?)
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# ? Jul 11, 2015 23:58 |
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I'm looking for a good portable with similar requirements. Additionally, I'd like it to run Scrivener.
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# ? Jul 11, 2015 23:59 |
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I just want something light that doesn't overheat to poo poo when I have more than 2 tabs open.
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# ? Jul 12, 2015 00:32 |
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https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/619739706297704448
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 05:09 |
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You have to admire any author who's reviews begin with "I'm not sure what I did in a past life to deserve a book like this..."
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 11:12 |
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Is ANYONE still making money off erotica shorts? I just made less money this weekend than last weekend even though I had three new books out vs. only two new books last weekend.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 13:02 |
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I should probably buy some of his books just to thank him for the joy he brings to the world with his titles/covers. I can't imagine reading the insides, though.
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# ? Jul 13, 2015 19:46 |
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How is this not our thread icon? I'm ashamed of myself.
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# ? Jul 14, 2015 01:22 |
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angel opportunity posted:Is ANYONE still making money off erotica shorts? I just made less money this weekend than last weekend even though I had three new books out vs. only two new books last weekend. Well all KDP/KU drama aside, it is also halfway through loving July. Ain't nobody settin' no smut sales records in the dog days.
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# ? Jul 14, 2015 05:19 |
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Yeah, don't expect to set any sales records for anything in the middle of the summer.
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# ? Jul 14, 2015 14:29 |
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:I've used a cheaper Chromebook than that as my main writing rig for a while. It's OK, not great. My one suggestion of to write in smaller segments because Google Docs on cheapo Chromebooks will choke on novel sized files. So long as you do your prepress/covers on a more powerful computer you'll be fine (and how could you create covers on one of them anyway?) Yeah googledocs will slow to an agonizing crawl if you're doing anything novel length. I'd estimate that around 30k words and it will become actively unpleasant to write in. I have a cheapo laptop with OpenOffice installed. It's not as cheap as a Chromebook but it is much more responsive given the length i write in. Googledocs is neat (never having to worry about backups is great. You should still do it every now and then just in case but a crash won't ruin your life) but I don't like having to skip between multiple files of the book
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# ? Jul 14, 2015 18:05 |
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Depending on your Chromebook, you can mod it to run Linux and use OpenOffice. I have one of those cheapo Samsung ones, and it lets me switch between Chrome OS and some stripped-down Linux distro with a keypress. It's pretty cool. I still do 99% of my writing on an Alphasmart Neo, though. So much convenience, so few distractions.
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# ? Jul 14, 2015 22:01 |
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^^ I was wondering how people dealt with Franzen's idea that no one writes good fiction if they have a Internet connection and our brave new world with ubiquitous wifi. edit: vv dude these gadgets are $40. Mortley fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jul 16, 2015 |
# ? Jul 14, 2015 22:11 |
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KU rate for June is $1.35.
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# ? Jul 15, 2015 21:33 |
Jalumibnkrayal posted:KU rate for June is $1.35. Here lieth the last such post where the point be but one digit from the dollar sign
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# ? Jul 15, 2015 21:42 |
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Mortley posted:^^ I was wondering how people dealt with Franzen's idea that no one writes good fiction if they have a Internet connection and our brave new world with ubiquitous wifi. I actually have a serious problem writing if I have internet connectivity. It's awful. My best writing productivity is at a B&B out in Pennsyltucky with no access to the modern world. I go from struggling to write a chapter to slamming out half a book over a weekend. It's ridiculous.
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# ? Jul 16, 2015 00:22 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Here lieth the last such post where the point be but one digit from the dollar sign It was interesting to see that after announcing an $11M pot in advance, they boosted it by $300K. Before they'd announce a $3M pot and then triple it. Now they're bumping it by 3%. Mmmm...3% bump on $0.0057 per page.
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# ? Jul 16, 2015 16:37 |
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Sundae posted:I actually have a serious problem writing if I have internet connectivity. It's awful. It used to be that the only way I could write was on my notebook in the bed room, with the ethernet cable removed. Then I got an Ipad and a wireless router, so now that is gone, too. Productivity has not recovered.
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Check out http://freedom.to I have a lovely old laptop that I swap to when I want to be productive. If you only have one computer you could set up two user accounts, one for loving around and maybe editing/research, the other for just work with freedom.to installed.
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Are there any non-US people who have signed up to both Amazon and other distribution platforms? Amazon reckons they can't give me my IRS number until the end of the year and I've earned enough, which won't happen til 2016 (2014 I hadn't received my first payout yet). I.e. they don't have it, only the IRS has it and will provide it with the first tax receipt or some such reason. How did you handle D2D when it asks you for your tax number? Did you have to get in touch with the IRS directly and ask for the file on you, or what?
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# ? Jul 16, 2015 17:24 |
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I called the IRS and got an EIN.
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# ? Jul 18, 2015 09:45 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Are there any non-US people who have signed up to both Amazon and other distribution platforms? Amazon reckons they can't give me my IRS number until the end of the year and I've earned enough, which won't happen til 2016 (2014 I hadn't received my first payout yet). I.e. they don't have it, only the IRS has it and will provide it with the first tax receipt or some such reason. You shouldn't need an EIN if you're a non-US resident. You can use your local tax identification number. I actually emailed D2D about something very similar - about whether or not I could use a PDF of the tax interview form to supply them with that info - and this is the response they sent me. quote:We cannot accept the form Amazon generates, nor can we accept digital signatures. As far as I can tell, the form I've already got is filled out correctly, they just want a scan of a handwritten one for their records.
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# ? Jul 18, 2015 13:08 |
Ah, thank you! I didn't realise that there was no issue filling out multiple forms there the first year. Okay, I will do that asap. Thanks again
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 10:22 |
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I picked up one of those Alphasmart Neos after reading about it a few posts up and it is so much easier to write on than my pc. I just can't handle distractions, and I can't stop editing as I write. The Neo solves both my problems. Just a recommendation for anybody in the same boat.
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Empire State posted:I picked up one of those Alphasmart Neos after reading about it a few posts up and it is so much easier to write on than my pc. I just can't handle distractions, and I can't stop editing as I write. The Neo solves both my problems. Just a recommendation for anybody in the same boat. Yeah I grabbed one recently too, wrote my latest book on it. Gotta agree 100%, it's very limited but it's an awesome distraction-free tool. Not expensive at all. I'd recommend it for anyone on the fence. They do one thing and they do it really well. I was hesitant about only getting 4 or 5 lines at a time on the screen but that's definitely more than enough.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 13:47 |
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I've been on the fence about getting one of those for a long time now ... guess I'll take the (cheap, really) leap.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 13:52 |
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Bit of a dumb question here: is it possible for a non-American author to get their book published in the States (or the West in general, at least), as the last few pages seem to be painting a bit of a grim picture. If so, what do you guys think of the PubYourself site mentioned in the OP?
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 15:29 |
CommissarMega posted:Bit of a dumb question here: is it possible for a non-American author to get their book published in the States (or the West in general, at least), as the last few pages seem to be painting a bit of a grim picture. If so, what do you guys think of the PubYourself site mentioned in the OP? Of course it's possible. The only issue there is tax stuff, you need to jump through one extra hoop (and then get the money back to you somehow - I use Payoneer) but that's it. I don't know anything about that site in the op but for Amazon the process is super easy. Even for D2D which I'm doing now (waiting for them to get back to me with confirmation of form submission) all I had to do was print out a W-8BEN form, fill it out, sign, scan and email. Plus of course Payoneer for getting paid in $USD and then bringing it back into a more relevant currency / country.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 15:35 |
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the brotherly phl posted:...I was hesitant about only getting 4 or 5 lines at a time on the screen but that's definitely more than enough. Yeah, I think in your head you write "a page at a time" just because that's what word processors normally display, but if you think it through, that's probably not cognitively possible, your working memory isn't large enough to contain sequences of words that long.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 05:45 |
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Mortley posted:Yeah, I think in your head you write "a page at a time" just because that's what word processors normally display, but if you think it through, that's probably not cognitively possible, your working memory isn't large enough to contain sequences of words that long. Also forces you not to revise. Navigating the text is super slow, doable, but a pain in the rear end. So I find myself really producing a lot, and editing it all later. Works for people that want to generate a bunch of text without worrying about making it perfect, but maybe not so much for people that work a sentence at a time.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:08 |
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A Bluetooth keyboard synced to a phone/tablet with google docs also works well.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 18:31 |
How many search terms does D2D allow? Or rather what is the maximum number allowed by the distribution platform with the smallest allotment? I read on some guide that D2D allows 15 terms max but that didn't seem to be the case and I can't find any other mention of the limited number of search terms.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:59 |
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I don't know about anyone else, but going wide isn't worth it to me. I've made $6 on D2D and $18 on ARe. It seems these other sites have no algorithms or ways to gain visibility.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 21:11 |
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Yeah, I've been wondering if I should suck up my pride and go back to KU. I've made about $15 this month from Nook Press and Smashwords - even at a half cent per page, I was making ~$5-7 per day from KU. The one thing that keeps me from doing it is that my actual sales have jumped up a bit since I took everything off KU and haven't come back down yet - I'm worried I might be undercutting those by going back to borrows.
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Empire State posted:I picked up one of those Alphasmart Neos after reading about it a few posts up and it is so much easier to write on than my pc. I just can't handle distractions, and I can't stop editing as I write. The Neo solves both my problems. Just a recommendation for anybody in the same boat. The storage system kind of sucks, though... the Neo stores your text internally, right? And then when you plug it into a computer, it acts like a keyboard and dumps everything into a text editor? I'm thinking a simple microcontroller (AVR, perhaps) that runs a basic editor, something that immediately writes every keystroke to an SD card, reading in a KB or two into RAM so it can display whatever's near the cursor position. Simple text displays are cheap, couple that with a decent keyboard and you're good to go. Sorry for the derail but my engineer sperg wanted to say stuff.
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