By Shannon Yarbrough on June 6, 2009
Like many of you, I’ve been patiently waiting to receive my March royalties I earned from Kindle sales. March proved to be one of the biggest months for authors as far as earnings are concerned due to the release of the Kindle 2. For those who may have missed this bit of information from my previous posts and are wondering why I said March, Amazon.com pays you 60 days after the end of a month,which is why we are just now getting paid our March royalties.
Posted in Opinions, POD Diary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, amazonfail, author amazon royalties, digital text platform, dtp, Kindle, kindle sales |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 5, 2009
Unlike Lulu, once you have uploaded your files to CreateSpace, you do NOT immediately have the capability to order a copy of your work. Once you have submitted your files, you receive an email confirmation that states the following: “Thank you for submitting your book. We will review your files and book information and notify you of the results via email shortly, typically within 24-48 hours.”
Posted in CreateSpace, Getting Published, News, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, CreateSpace, DIY publishing, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 4, 2009
Have any other authors out there received an email from Amazon saying your new Author Central page is ready? I received mine earlier this week. I immediately signed in to take a look. I added a picture, a biography, and also updated my bibliography to include the books that LuluPress has listed on Amazon now including an early chapbook of my poetry I put together in 2006 as a gift for my Mom and Dad.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon blog, amazon connect, amazon.com, author central, author connect |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 1, 2009
I was first introduced to CreateSpace in 2007. Once my book, Stealing Wishes, was eliminated from the semifinals for the first Amazon ABNA contest, I was given my consolation prize which was a CreateSpace membership and the ability to publish and order a free copy of my book. I chose not to do this at that time and published the book with Lulu instead. But ever since we here at LLBR decided to add CreateSpace books to our review portfolio, I thought it would be a good experience to create something with CreateSpace and learn more about this company.
Posted in CreateSpace, Getting Published, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, CreateSpace, DIY publishing, POD, POD author, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 14, 2008
Here’s an interesting bit I picked up from a Shelf Awareness story this week…
William Ackerman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management is the single-largest shareholder in Borders Group, owning about 30% of the company, suggested yesterday that Amazon.com should buy Borders, according to the Associated Press.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, borders, borders bookstore |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 2, 2008
Based on sketchy information posted in the Lulu Forums, it looks like Lulu.com has probably agreed to Amazon’s ultimatum. Due to the fees I’m sure Amazon will be slapping publishers with for having to use its Booksurge printing services, we can probably look forward to increased fees to be passed on to users as well. I chatted with a Lulu representative today through their online chat support hoping to get some info for you, but was pretty much given “blanket” information that anyone would already be privy to.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand, writer's weekly |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 31, 2008
Thanks to Veinglory over at PodPeep again for bringing this letter from Amazon to our attention in regards to the recent matter addressed in my previous post about Amazon monopolizing the POD printing industry by requiring all POD publishers to use their BookSurge company for printing or the BUY button of their books would be taken down.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 28, 2008
Although I had already planned to blog about it when I got home from work today , and I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, per Veinglory’s request I’d like to voice a bit of my outrage about Amazon’s recent approach to Publish America to use Booksurge as a printing source or else! Or else what? Or else the BUY buttons would be removed from the PA books on Amazon.com and the books would only be available through third party sellers.
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