Just some news for those of you out there who've been following along on my publishing journey.
My publisher has been working with Amazon.com and other such .coms in getting my book listed on their sites. It turns out these places want a GINORMOUS (combination of gigantic and enormous, which is the only way I can describe a discount of more than 50%!!!) discount in order to carry the book. Which sucks because that affects the price of the book for customers, unfortunately.
So here's the deal. If you order The Silver Spoon from Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com or through your local bookstore, it will cost $16.50. A lot, I know. But here's the good news...if you order from RuneStone, you'll save $2.00 -- the book will be available for $14.50.
RuneStone can do that because they don't have to pay the middleman (actually, middle men in this case) when the purchase comes through their site. That's a higher price than what we originally discussed, but unfortunately, to make the numbers work with the other online ordering sites, that's what had to happen.
I also have it on good authority that the ordering system on RuneStone will be as easy to use and secure as any of the "big" sites that you may be used to using. : ) I encourage those of you who are thinking about buying The Silver Spoon and are comfortable with ordering online to use RuneStone -- save yourself the couple of dollars!
Ordering is not set up yet at any of the sites, but they're working on it. I'll let you know when I get the word : )
Talk to you tomorrow!
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So, Amazon is saying they will only buy it if the price is $7, but they still want to sell it for $16.50?
Dang it -- this thing will never recognize me! It's Stacey.
Ed -- Yep, that's pretty much the case. The deal is that in order to get it to Amazon or any bookstores, you have to have a distributor. The distributor requires a 40% discount. And they want the retailer to have a 15% discount, which adds up to 55%. Ugh. And it's NOT negotiable. They won't even carry it if you don't offer it.
I figured I needed to have it on amazon so people who hear about it but don't know the publisher's name can find it. Unfortunately that means a higher price. If we'd kept the price the same I would have earned approximately $.30 per book, less than a postage stamp.While I'm not in this to make big bucks -- good thing, too! : ) -- it's hard to accept thirty cents a book. As it is, with the higher price, I'm only up to about seventy cents a book.
I would recommend anyone interested in the book, either buy it from RuneStone directly (or in limited cases, yours truly will likely have a supply available!)
Big business sucks : (
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