Again, your support there is much, much appreciated. We can’t express how important it is—and you’re doing it!
And if Betrayer weren’t enough, Jane’s just put Uplink live on Amazon Kindle Store…
by CJ | Apr 5, 2011 | Journal | 19 comments
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As I already posted on Jane’s site, I bought it. I’m looking forward to re-reading it again!
Man, now I’ve bought two apps and three e-books for the kindle today. Yes, two of them were Janes…
One-click shopping is oh, so seductive :))
And now it’s on my Kindle and Kindle Apps!
I still contend you folks are underpricing those on Amazon.
Yes, I think they are underpriced. However, if CJ and Jane get all (or most) of that money it may not be any more “underpriced” from their perspective than a hardback. Dunno. Maybe I don’t want to!
Our share of a 25.00 hardbound sold on Amazon is about 2.00-2.50. Of a 9.00 paperback, about 1.00. Of course, Amazon is selling the hardbounds at half price. DAW will have to pay me the full royalty—doesn’t help DAW survive, either. From Closed CIrcle, we get all of it, of course.
Keep those reviews coming! They’re really helping, and if you’ve already read it and can review it, go to it, please!
At $2.99 they should be getting 70% of the money, which means they are making more on the ebook sales than they would on paperback. $2.99 is the break point for the 70% royalties from Amazon. My books are at $1.99 and I only get 35%, but I did this because I am NOT a C.J. or Jane and have virtually no following, so I have to go very cheap and hope people will say ‘I can risk $2 to try something new.
Either way, it’s difficult for anyone to get sales, so going and buying Jane’s books and getting them up in the lists (and adding reviews) is a very good way to draw attention to all her work — and back to Closed Circle, where they would like to make the sales.
Good to see Uplink and Groundties both out to the wider Amazon audience!
I’ve posted a review on both the UK and the US Kindle store, with a link to Groundties, and edited my Groundties reviews to link to the Kindle Uplink, and mentioned CC as well.
I’m not a good review-writer, but I hope it helps. And I really hope some other readers will post their reviews soon, and dilute the impact of my somewhat clumsy attempt… I’m never convinced I can persuade anyone to try a book, however much I love it, and that would be a real pity in this case.
If at least five people write her a five-star review (which I think her books are worth), Jane might be mentioned on the ‘fourstarsandup’ website again, as well as rising in the Amazon ranks. That might help improve her visibility.
All the mentions from loyal readers of CJ and Jane’s blogs in other fora like LibraryThing and Facebook may well have helped generate the ongoing steady sales for Groundties, and repeating that for Uplink might make others start to take notice as well. Success!
I was looking forward to reading Betrayer tonight, but wasn’t able to buy it locally. I went to both Borders and Barnes and Noble, and neither one had ordered even a single copy. No wonder the industry is in bad shape. 🙁
Wondering where ‘locally’ is, and saying, yes, these stores have their problems, but their own decision-making process has been as antiquated as the publishing industry. Computers made a mess of them largely because as a whole the industry was computer-naive and didn’t know how to use the information the computerized system was giving them.
This is one of those ‘computers took over and ruined the world’ scenarios that sf authors used to write about, isn’t it? It was always the humans who blithely gave them the power, too. And then one day the there’s no water and the computers are telling us it’s for our own good so we don’t drown.
Sorry – locally is Greensburg, PA. It is about an hour east of Pittsburgh, in an area known as “Pennsyltucky.” Both stores had Regenesis (which I loved), and one has paperback copies of recent Bren books, so it never occurred to me that they wouldn’t have Betrayer. I guess I need to join the Amazon crowd.
I’m amazed. A small town in Great Nowhere, I can somewhat understand, but that’s amazing.
I pre-ordered from Amazon.co.uk (who have in the past been only 1/2 days after the USA release date). This time they are currently informing me that dispatch should be 18 April 2011 – 26 April 2011. Way too long to wait! If this doesn’t improve by tomorrow I’ll have to revert to my 90s behaviour and order from the US (Then I ordered directly from Penguin distribution, Penn.) – I’ve found I can get a 3 day courier delivery from Amazon.com for an all in price of circa £27/$44 (i.e. including the book) – only £7 more than I’d be paying Amazon(UK) for a next day delivery to Scotland. So hopefully I’ll be reading Betrayer by Tuesday or at the latest wednesday. Meanwhile I’m green with envy over those who can post about RE- reading.
Look what I just found again finally! I’d been looking for this, and it had gotten into a box somehow! Thought some of you might enjoy seeing this one!
There are three pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zettepics/
Ack. Forgot and put another picture up in front of them. The pictures are after the waterfall. Sorry!
I just got my package from Amazon and it is time to go to the dojo! ARG! If I weren’t testing in 21 days I might elect to stay home and read… *sob*
Hi. I have read Betrayer now – it took a while to get to Oz (10 very long days). I don’t want to provide any spoilers, but it takes up the same day Deceiver ended, and rolls the story along well. Machigi is an engaging character, despite being a bad guy. I don’t know how much he could have supported Murini, as he is only in around 21, I think. There was less interaction between Bren and the characters we know, and more attention focused on new ones – the heirs new guards, and Machigi, as well as the Guild situation. This needs to be fleshed out more, of course, but I guess that is coming up in Intruder. I am not able to get this as a Kindle Book, which is probably just as well. One thing I am disappointed at is the number of spelling mistakes and typos in my hardback copy. Daw used to be a bit better than this. Examples are tat for that, he for she (Jago)etc.etc. Baji is described on a left hand page as being in a night shirt, yet he is grabbed by his coat in the opposite (left hand)page. I recently bought a kindle book that had lots of errors, and question marks in the text. I dread to think what they would do to this book!!
Sorry about those errors. Sometimes I think my stuff doesn’t get copyedited before they put it out—and occasionally I’ve known beyond a doubt it happens. Just think of it as getting a little closer to the writer’s actual text (blush) than you usually get to see, but oh, I wish they’d help me out and catch that sort of thing. It’s just that the publishers now are running on bare bones and shorthanded, and always in a hurry. So things are going to hades in a handbasket.