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    <title>Support Forums : Message List - cub06h</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:11:37 +0000</pubDate>


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        <title>On sharing the bounty with a publisher</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24792&amp;tstart=0#24792</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[There are many threads on these forums complaining about the lousy 35 percent royalty Amazon has been paying over the past three years. To me, who has often put up with 6 percent royalties on paperbacks, these complaints seemed a bit overheated.

So I thought you might like to share my most recent experience with e-book publishing:

For six months I've been trying to get a New York publisher to revert the digital rights to a book published in 2007. This week I got my answer. E-book? What a great idea! We'll get right on it. It will be published in August (I could do it in a week) and here's the best part: you'll get a royalty of 25 percent of the net.... Nothing I can do about it, either, since it's in my contract. 

Grrr. It has some photos, so allow a nickel or a dime for downloading costs, so figure 68 percent under the new royalty program. 25 percent of 68 percent is 17 percent royalty, calculated every six months, with a lag of two or three months. I can look forward to the first (paper) check next March, covering August-December. 

It will of course be a more professional job, the retail price will be double what I would charge, and the book will be available on B&N and the Sony and Apple bookstores. I will report back next spring on how that worked out.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:06:44 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jun 12, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: My month to date reports are broken</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24683&amp;tstart=0#24683</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Mine work okay.

You had sales in the first week of June and you no longer see them?]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:41:58 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:41:58 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 9, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: How do I remove a book?</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24682&amp;tstart=0#24682</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Try Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer 8 in "compatibility mode" (whatever that may be).]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:40:52 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 9, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: All about B&amp;#38;N, Apple, Smashwords, and Amazon</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24499&amp;tstart=0#24499</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[All that is true, but have any of  your books appeared on Barnes & Noble or the iBookstore?

I had a book put into Smashword's "premium" catalog last September, but it has yet to show up on B&N. When the iPad came out, I added two more, but neither have they showed up.

The first book is indeed available on Kobo.

Altogether, over nine months, SW has sold three copies of book #1 and none of the other two. 

I viewed the books on the various emulators, and in Kindle for PC. I thought they looked terrible. Altogether, I thought the SW was not yet ready for prime time.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:43:24 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:43:24 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 5, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>2</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: How  can an author  make corrections to the ....</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24497&amp;tstart=0#24497</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Are you saying that the cover image of the print edition is shown on the Amazon store? If so, try to get the largest possible image that Amazon will display. Save it to your hard drive, then upload it in the DTP (step one).]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:56:15 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:56:15 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 5, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>2</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Publishing Public Domain Titles and verification on such</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24464&amp;tstart=0#24464</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Well, then, one just writes a short, polite, firm email explaining what you have done and why you think your version a priceless addition to the Amazon catalog. Then wait patiently for a reply.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:09:33 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:09:33 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:09:33 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Jun 5, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Cannot Apply DRM to the uploaded Mobi. Please upload another file or Change</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24444&amp;tstart=0#24444</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[I have never upload a *.mobi file, so I can't be sure, but you ought to make sure that when you "built" the document using Mobipocket Creator that you didn't encrypt it. 

And if it comes to that, what exactly did you upload? The top choices are *.doc and *.htm *.prc. Is *.prc what you mean by Mobi?]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:23:25 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:18:55 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 4, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>2</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Publishing Public Domain Titles and verification on such</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24443&amp;tstart=0#24443</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[One just writes a short, polite, firm email asserting that the work is original and not in the public domain, and that you own the digital rights. It happens regularly that we get challenged. Amazon is only being careful (be glad that they are careful!).]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:16:48 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Jun 4, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>2</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Corporate publishing</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24438&amp;tstart=0#24438</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[You can publish most anything in Kindle format, though it's hard to register fancy graphics such as one is likely to see in brochures and magazines. 

There's another way to publish a regular magazine for Kindle readers, as opposed to just publishing individual copies. You might email dtp-support@amazon.com to ask about that. The DTP doesn't work for regular magazine issues or blog entries.

Hosting them on your own website is more tricky. 1) the reader has to own a Kindle or use a Kindle app, and be willing to manually transfer the file to the device. 2) Amazon doesn't want you offering the same stuff free or at a lesser price than is charged on the Amazon store.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jun 4, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Why I Didn't Sign Onto DTP</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=24418&amp;tstart=0#24418</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[I was going to post a clever reply, but I wouldn't want to violate a legally binding contract.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:16:24 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Jun 4, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cub06h</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>3</jf:replyCount>
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