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[gjackscreates]

The Deep by Rivers Solomon: A Captivating Exploration of Identity and Memory

"The Deep" by Rivers Solomon is an imaginative novella inspired by the song "The Deep" from Clipping, delving into the underwater society of descendants of African slave women. Yetu, burdened with her people's memories, flees to the surface...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and James Snipes Synopsis: The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from…

[aninkwellofnectar]

BOOKVAULT JUST ROLLED OUT SPRAYED EDGES I'M ABOUT TO GET REAL ANNOYING

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[vegan-childrens-stories]

We have another winner!

It’s that time again and this month’s lucky winner of the VVC Club prize draw is Abi Cloud! Congratulations Abi! Abi has chosen The Two Little Pigs and a cow 🙂 Good choice Abi! – the beautiful hardback book – featuring the stories ‘The Two Little Pigs’ AND ‘Where are you going Deidra?’ – has been ordered and will be with you just as soon as the lovely people at BookVault can print and deliver…

[kellshaw]

New Post has been published on https://kellshaw.com/you-can-also-consider-alternative-pod-printers/

You can also consider alternative POD printers, such as Lulu, Bookvault or Ingram Spark and compare POD pricing across vendors. Amazon is usually cheaper, but it might be time to look around. Consider getting people to buy paper copies from your website (either you stock copies for them, or they order POD from Lulu (or other vendor) from a link you provide. (Even if you’re in Kindle Unlimited, you can have your paper books distributed through other channels than Amazon, and this way you can adjust the margins and remove Amazon’s cut.)

Amazon are upping their print costs for books, which means some (possibly many) self-pubbed authors may have to also up the cost of their book(s). I’d like to say now, to make it crystal clear for the record, this is not authors being greedy.

I think someone who looks up the royalty rate for KDP and sees “60% for exclusive publishing and 40% for non-exclusive” would think “Wow, these authors are getting paid good money!” but once you calculate the amount of the list price that Amazon eats after printing costs, that percentage can be literally pennies. The minimum, and I mean the absolute bare minimum that I could sell When Dealing with Wolves for after the changes is £12.48 – and if I did that, I would make £0.00. That’s zero money. No royalties.

I repeat: 40% royalties on a book listed at £12.48 = nothing.

I currently have WDWW up at £14.00. My “40% cut” from that is £0.76. After the printing cost changes go into effect, I’ll make £0.61 from each sale instead. I really don’t want to up my prices, because frankly it enrages me that Amazon won’t let me list my book for anything under £12, when the standard price of a fiction paperback in the UK is usually around £8.99 – but writing isn’t my priority job, so I have that luxury. I’m not trying to make a living off my writing so much as using it to supplement what I make from the freelance career, which is a choice I made because I knew I could never cope with the workload required for a “"serious”“ self-pubbed writing career without sabotaging myself. The £0.15 difference in royalties from one book sale isn’t going to be the difference between me eating or not; it just really really annoys and disheartens me. (And, also, is further proof that I can’t sustain a full-time writing career, because I’d run myself ragged for too little gain and then I wouldn’t be able to eat).

But there are plenty of authors who are writing as their primary source of income, either because they can’t do anything else or because they took the plunge they’re building their career (and it shouldn’t matter to you why someone is writing full-time, by the way. You want fiction media to interact with, then you need writers, and writers need to be paid in order to live in order to make more media). It’s these authors who will have to up their book prices, and I feel in my bones that it’s these authors who are going to face the backlash.

So, if you must be pissed off at someone, be pissed off at Amazon. The authors are probably pissed off, too (I certainly am!), so you’ll be in good company.

(And if you can, buy the ebook version because we get better royalties, or see if the author has their own store where you can get the book, since they’ll have more control over their own prices there).

[cosmicbutterfly7]

😂😂😂This meme is so me lol 😂😂😂#bookworm #bookvault #allofthesass #infp #dreamer #introvert #ilovereading #ilovebooks #icansorelatetothis #iwouldtotallysaythis #booksareawesome #turnthatclosetintoabookvault #iabsolutelywould https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs9WN-MBoKkQOLG-pIOOH3u6Gzee8CSEe--5340/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k5m5xf4x8epk

[juanitalaraphotography]

Book-Vault.... #lifegoals #vivefelíz #patadeperro #pataperriando #nomad #nomada #vagabondshoes #yolapalomaerrante #morganlibraryandmuseum #bookvault

[signourneybooks]

Unboxing - BookVault May 2017

Unboxing – BookVault May 2017

At the end of last year BookVault, a Dutch fantasy book subscription box, started and I had ordered their box. Unfortunately for me there were two books of a series in there that I had little interest in anymore. That is the thing with a book box, you never really know what you will get.  Even so I liked the extras and how it was set up around the books. Which I think you should judge a book box…

[aninkwellofnectar]

Anyway sprayed edges are officially out of stock. I sold the last of them at Comic Con. They won't be coming back for the foreseeable future until bookvault rolls out sprayed edges later in the summer!

[meliroc]

#bookvault #iowa#oskaloosa

[aninkwellofnectar]

bookvault has officially improved integration with payhip which means from this point forth i am a storefront first girlie and will be actively pivoting people AWAY from amazon in terms of paperbacks.

[signourneybooks]

BookVault December Unboxing

When there is one, there shall be more… Or so seems to be the case with Dutch book boxes. Where we first had Celebrate Books and Bookly Bird, and there is now also BookVault. It holds a recent Dutch release and at least two goodies. But for this first book box there were two books in it. Of course when I heard of this box I had to give it a go. Merijn showing you the box (and his new favorite…

[meliroc]

#oskaloosa #iowa #townsquare - Loved it ! #coffeehouse #bookvault