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EBook Authors Rejoice – Amazon is getting smart

There will be less “crappy” ebooks in the Kindle Store.

Well back when Amazon first put out the Kindle, they needed ebooks so they weren’t too picky about what was uploaded. That way, their press releases could say we have over 200,000 and growing for ebooks you can buy to read on our super duper ereader. Twas a great plan then.

Now it’s coming back to bite Amazon in the tush when readers either ask for a refund and/or complain about the quality of the ebooks.

So they decided just like Google and Facebook, they are going to be more discerning about the quality of the ebooks they allow to be published on their Digital Text Platform. And, how they’re going to do that is match content via software algorithms.

When content is the same, it means lazy people (won’t even dignify their existence by calling them authors) have slapped together private label right (PLR) ebooks and Project Gutenberg’s free ebooks and put a price tag on them. They’ve had it good for a few years but now it’s coming to a screeching halt.

Amazon is now going to compare ebooks and will give them all the same price.

Which means if there are identical ebooks, the one priced the lowest will be the price for all. And the really good news? The lowest price is usually free (evil grin here).

And then again, I recently read some whining from these authors on forums that Amazon dropped their ebooks off the Kindle eBook Store. Did my fist go up in the air and I yell “hell yeah,” you bet it did!

Why?

Because I’m tired of unscrupulous “wannabe writers” taking the EZ way to write (or should I say not write) an ebook. The fact they have shot themselves in the foot suits me just fine!

Because this means we Authors, who take the time to write outstanding ebooks and use formatting that gives a good reader experience, will always be making money selling our writing.

Until next time, may you always have “a good read,”

graphic of Judith Tramayne's signature

eBook – How To Triple Your Income

Everybody and their sister is jumping on the bandwagon to publish their ebook on the Kindle. Should you?

Of course. It’s not the medium that matters, it’s the words in your ebook!

Your books are not making you income if they’re sitting in your drawer because some first, second or third year college student was having a bad hair day and rejected your manuscript. Yes that’s right, slush files at traditional publishing houses are farmed out to college students to read.

So take out that manuscript, dust it off and let’s triple your income by providing your book as an ebook to the public in three different formats:

Unless you’re Stephen King or one of the other best-selling authors, you’re not going to make the same income by being traditionally published as you would if you self publish.

Don’t believe, let’s do the math.

Author A is a mid-list Author with XYZ Publishing House (names have been changed to protect the guilty).

Author B on the other hand, wants to control her writing career and not be dictated to as to what she should write. She wants to self publish all her ebooks on her own site and in Amazon’s Kindle bookstore.