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Another fully-offline, sideload-only, airplane-mode-forever ebooker here. Plus I didn't even buy it in the first place - a relation had one they said they never looked at, so I asked if I could take it off their hands.

Had a funny experience once with a fellow (who was in his third year of computer science at a reputable university), where we just so happened to get on to the topic of ebooks. I told him how I operate my little machine, which I'd only started using. He was shocked, and stated clearly that he thinks it's unethical towards authors to use a "jailbroken" device like that and not get books through the Amazon store...

Sigh.



I guess he’s never seen the kind of insane contracts people that publish on the Amazon store need to sign xD


As someone who has self-published a book on the Amazon Kindle store once, Amazon's cut is something like 70% + bandwidth fees (author only gets maybe ~25–28% of the selling price).


I find it hard to believe you’d ever earn enough on an Amazon book to make any such contract worth it.


70% of $100k = $70k 30% of $1mil = $300k

Scale makes it seem pretty straightforward to me.


What percentage of books do you think make $m in sales? 0.1%? 0.01%?

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books




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