Now Paypal is jumping on the erotica censorship bandwagon requiring all websites that use their services to remove all erotica titles of certain generas.
Use the following link to read the article:
http://selenakitt.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/19/slippery-slope-erotica-censor...
It was bound to happen with Amazon seeking exclusivity from authors. Use the following link to read the article:
http://www.tekgoblin.com/2012/02/01/barnes-noble-to-pull-amazon-publishing-ti...
Use the following link to read the article:
http://www.ebookmagazine.co.uk/are-kindle-users-buying-many-books/20122252
Kobo is one of my favorite distributors that I hope to drastically increase sales volume with in the near future.
Use the following link to read the article:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/kobo-amazons-only-global-competition/
Noni - The Story of a Nympho by Kimoko Z Lee
I downloaded this book because of the big booty chic on the cover who was getting busy licking a lollipop. The joy with this book ended right there. My problem with this work outside of much needed editing was the language which was completely written in hood slang and Ebonics.
Now although I am black and like most black folk I'll interject some slang in everyday conversation, I don't communicate with it like it's another language. Because it's not a language. That's why it's called...slang.
Kimoko not only uses slang as the primary language used by the characters in the book, the entire book is written in slang. I read a review where the author was praised for totally ignoring spelling and grammatical rules, however, in my mind there is a point when "keepin' it real" goes bad and this is it.
I agree with Chris Rock when he talks about how he loves black people but hates niggas. I agree with Chris because niggas pull down the overall race. They pull us down because they are dumbed down.
They are dumbed down because they lack the language to communicate complex thoughts, feelings and concepts. People who communicate in Ebonics can express a feeling (I.e., you trippin') but they can't express...why...they feel a certain way.
That's why when you hear a bunch of niggas talking loud to each other you hear a lot of na'mean and na'sayin. Because they lack the language to fully express what they are thinking. So you hear a lot of talking but they are saying nothing.
Someone whose language is Ebonics will never write a speech that will inspire people like Dr. King's, "I have a dream".
Someone whose language is Ebonics will never write a poem to uplift its people like Maya Angelo's, "I rise".
Someone whose language is ebonics cannot write fiction that will arouse, amuse or entertain you.
However, if the primary words in your vocabulary are deez, fo'rel, dat, aight, or teef. Then this book is for you.
Euftis Emery
Personally, I set my price point to 30-35% the retail cost of the soft cover book. I have one free book and several $.99 works but those books are either under 10,000 words or excertps. Anything under 10,000 words is fair to price at $.99.
However, if your work is over 10,000 words you're selling yourself short (literally) to allow Amazon to rip you off paying you 30%. As I stated, I am selling a few books in the $.99 range to get new readers but those books are only excerpts of a more expensive book.
What I've found, is that I garner more readers by advertising and word of mouth than by the droves of people buying my cheap or free ebooks. This is because as the attached artcle suggests, the market is spliting as follows:
The $.99 crowd is looking to get books cheap or free. In fact, I had a reader give me a review of my book, I'm at it again...', which gives three 10,000 word previews of my next three books, who had the complete and utter audacity to complain because I didn't offer it for free even though they enjoyed it. The x amount of time that my work entertains a reader has a dollar value associated with it.
I don't need or want readers like that.
My ebooks contain 30-40% more words than my competion and are enhanced with video, links and color pictures and now that the Kindle Fire will handle HTML 4, my upcoming books will be fully enhanced included audio.
This will allow my readers on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Google, and ePub readers an expanded and longer user experience.
What's going to occur as this market shakes out is that savy publishers and indies who are not giving away their work will enhance thier titles to support thier price points over $.99.
This will distingush and seperate low price point selling indies from more expensive products on much more than just editing and professional artwork. The gap between both tiers of products will be glaringly apparant because cheap selling indies will not have the resources to compete in the "enhanced ebook" market.
With this logical seperation of product, the Kobo's, Barnes & Nobles etc will probably even differenciate regular ebooks from enhanced ebooks in the very near future.
So there is no need for authors who are not giving thier books away to get upset with publishers in the $.99 crowd because readers will...get...what they pay for.
Following is the article that inspired me to go on this rant:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/ebooks-cheap-price_n_1160383.html?re...
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