:First, a reminder that the free ebook download promo on all my ebooks ends midnight Saturday. Get 'em free while you can. :
Next: I'm dropping the prices on all books – ebooks and paperbacks alike – to the minimums Amazon allows (I'd drop them further, but Amazon sets thresholds for listings; I am limiting the venues to drop them as it is).
Why: Ego-stroking.
I figure I'll keep the books available for those rare occasions when someone is in the mood for crappy hard SF. But my finances make hosting free downloads on my personal site iffy in the short run, much less the long run (the only people who've made any money off these books are the thieving pirates... and I got hit with their tax bill on their profits – thanks, Amazon). And I don't much feel like going to the bother of seeking out and building a freebie hosting site just for this. The Amazon account is already there, so I'll use it. Besides, I can hardly provide POD paperbacks otherwise (and no, I don't feel like bothering with another POD provider either; it isn't worth the hassle).
On the one hand, this sucks because I'm essentially giving Amazon a free product to peddle for their own profit with virtually zero royalities. On the other hand, thanks to various P2P asswipes and thieves, I'm pretty much used to not getting paid for my work. On the gripping hand, why the hell did so many people want to rip off books that no one wants? (That one still baffles me. I guess there's some compulsion to grab anything that's "free" whether they actually want it or not. It's probably listed in the DSM.)
It's been a strange run. My most "successful" book (it almost made enough money to pay the rent... for one month... once... almost... before it hit the P2P networks) was one I never intended to write at all. Yet, oddly enough, I get asked by wanna-be writers for advice.
I tell them to find a published Name and suck up (and likely to actually suck, from things I hear about some authors) to them for patronage, or to give up the damned stupid idea before it's too late.
I wish I'd gotten that advice.
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This link to your books page doesn't work. http://www.www.bussjaeger.org/bookstore.html
ReplyDeleteSorry that "The Anarchists" is not in kindle. :(
Got everything else already. Downloaded the kindle versions just now. Have to wait until a friend can figure out why my reader won't connect anymore. Always something. :)
Link fixed.
Delete"The Anarchists" was in Kindle, and it took me well over a year to get Amazon to kill it. That was a Benner-pirated book that I wasn't getting paid for (I only got control of the paperbacks; the Benners kept control of -- and the profits from -- the ebooks).
Can't imagine why you want TA anyway.* It was poorly edited and formatted. The idiot even managed to misspell titles. Heck, he managed to get the copyright date wrong. "The Anarchy Belt" has every story that TA had, plus quite a few more, along with background material. And it's edited correctly.
* I did leave the paperback edition in place as (more ego-stroking) something for the collectors. But I don't encourage anyone but collectors to buy the misbegotten monstrosity.
Well, ok. :) <3
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, nice books!
ReplyDeleteFound them by accident searching Amazon for 'libertarian science fiction'.
Tipped a bit since no deed should go unpunished ;)
I managed to get all of them ordered, now just have to wait until my friend comes back so we can figure out how to download them. He "fixed" my open wifi thing on the DSL box here so it wouldn't be available to just anyone. Unfortunately, he fixed it so well that my tablet can't get connected either!!! sigh...
ReplyDelete...I'm sorry you've had such sucky experiences in publishing. I have always enjoyed your writing.
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