{"id":596,"date":"2010-10-06T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/10\/06\/royalties-book-sales-and-ebooks\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:16:00","slug":"royalties-book-sales-and-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/10\/06\/royalties-book-sales-and-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Royalties, Book Sales and Ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at royalties &#8212; with cool charts! &#8212; courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2010\/10\/royalties\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim C. Hines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kindle edition of <i>Mermaid&#8217;s Madness<\/i> is $6.99, just a dollar less than the paperback. If Joe Konrath is right, this might be one reason for the relatively poor ebook sales. Speaking for myself, I won&#8217;t buy the Kindle version for that price; I&#8217;ll wait until I can afford the paperback. (Which won&#8217;t be this month because I had to blow my monthly book budget on nonfiction.)<\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s not as bad as Ken Follett&#8217;s <i>Fall of Giants,<\/i> though, which had a Kindle price of $19,99! WTF! It&#8217;s actually MORE than the hardcover. I was not the only one outraged. A huge number of infuriated fans gave the book 1-star, and declared a boycott. Dutton, Penguin is the publisher. Have they lost their minds? Honestly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at royalties &#8212; with cool charts! &#8212; courtesy of Jim C. Hines. The Kindle edition of Mermaid&#8217;s Madness is $6.99, just a dollar less than the paperback. If Joe Konrath is right, this might be one reason for the relatively poor ebook sales. Speaking for myself, I won&#8217;t buy the Kindle version for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}