Comments on: Who Decides What Gets Sold In The Bookstore? http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 20:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Arun http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87881 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:04:24 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87881 What a wuss. If they won’t carry, its their loss, if u need their help in selling more, its ur loss. Stop complaining about ficticious elements that begin with the word ‘free’ – free speech, free market, they are all mirage. Get used to the capitalistic world or fade away

]]> By: Priscilla King http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87880 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:21:43 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87880 Liked. Would you like it linked? RSVP.

]]> By: SatiricalMessages http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87879 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:16:10 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87879 I have had books rejected because the last page has a list of recently released books and stated that they were available on the Kindle and other eBook readers.  I had no problem since it is akin to being on CNN and mentioning that you can get a full story on Fox news.

]]> By: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87878 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:36:51 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87878  Indeed it does, and Mr. Godin’s web site is an ebook selling masterpiece!

]]> By: Thom http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87877 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:00:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87877 It’s seems to me much more sensible to reference your own web page that has links on it so you can update the links when they break, add more links to other stores, or link to the freely available version when you are no longer selling it. In that case, you’d be showing accountability for the book AND the page where you maintain the links instead of offloading it to Amazon in hopes they would maintain the links indefinitely. Not to mention, an Amazon page that no longer sells an item is like declaring the item not worth having anymore.

Having control over your own web page helps with future proofing, too. Having a website doesn’t cost that much. You might consider looking into getting your own website, Seth, it could really help out as a means of maintaining your reputation instead of have your reputation tarnished with broken links from old ebooks.

]]> By: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87876 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:25:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87876 No, it *is* a big deal for Seth. Assume thousands of people buy the ebook from Apple. Given the strength of Seth’s reputation, I’d guess millions. Some percentage of those sales go to Seth as the author. Now, there are all these thousands or millions of readers. They’re happily reading along and they come across an Amazon link to a book Seth recommends. Remember, Amazon is a competitor of Apple’s.

They follow the link on the strength of Seth’s reputation and a certain fraction of them buy the book on the spot. Seth’s affiliate link pays him a cut of the sale prices. Again, since Seth is a famous author, I’m guessing many thousands of clicks and much better than average click-through and conversion rates. Seth is a phenomenal salesman!

The bottom line is that Apple would be *selling* and distributing ad copy for Seth and Amazon to consumers, many of whom would *not* realize they were in fact reading ad copy and paying Seth a commission on all books they bought via the links. Because of Seth’s numbers, that is a *very* big deal, and I say, “Bravo, Apple!” for refusing to allow it to happen.

]]> By: Erich Heintz http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87875 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:36:42 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87875 Censorship is blocking a message or idea. If the removal of the hyper links to Amazon (not the underlying text) does not change the intended message then no censorship has occurred and the entire article falls down.

]]> By: T-Bone http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87874 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:34:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87874 Hey Seth, did you get written permission from the Amazon Affiliate program to include your links in an eBook?  If not, that’s a violation of Section 7 (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/operating/participation?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=501&ref_=amb_link_353005802_7&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=&pf_rd_s=assoc-center-1&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_i=assoc_operating), and looking forward to your – “Who decides where I can post my affiliate links!?” follow up.

]]> By: Geff http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87873 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:05:00 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87873 This is like putting an add for a competing bookstore inside a book. Why would they want that. Just make the link to iBook store version of the book and you are good to go.

Now if your book isn’t using links to amazon to sell books but simply as part of the story that might be another (easily missused probably) thing.

]]> By: Cassandra Crawford http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87872 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:01:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/419-who-decides-what-gets-sold-in-the-bookstore/#comment-87872 Apple’s crime is not wanting to allow competitive ‘advertising’ in their products. This isn’t much an argument because people are aware there are other bookstores and the person seeing the information on Amazon has already purchased the book from Apple. It is akin to a store not stocking a product they don’t like or don’t support the producer.

However, I find it more distasteful to patronize Amazon’s bookstore. The outrageous royalty share they take is sinful, not to mention the strings they attach… Have a look http://goo.gl/I8qio as compared to B&N http://goo.gl/UTxhG

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