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Just wondering what other authors paid to have their books published?

12 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 16h

@realbitcoindog should know.

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to me, publishing strictly means having physical copies of your book available for purchase

if you pay any money to publish, then you’ve messed up

first of all, if you’re published thru a publisher. then THEY should be paying YOU to publish!!

and if you self-publish through Amazon KDP then u pay nothing!! u get royalties from your sales and Amazon prints the books

ingraham or whatever is a scam. it costs you thousands for them to print tons of copies of your book that you’re never gonna be able to sell yourself. even if you setup your own website, or go to your own book fairs, ultimately you’ll have to still sell on amazon and be a seller and ship ur book thru amazon

unless of course you’re in the publishing business, and now it’s not about cost to print tons sell your own books, but those of others…

don’t wanna sound harsh. it’s just business

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Yea I didn't really pay anything. I'm having some id issues ATM so couldn't publish there or I would have. I've already made back the small fee I paid.
Publishers take a lot from your own work.

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oh yes I love self publishing for the freedom!! and in the Bitcoin age your hardly more respected for a traditional publisher anyways

I have sold ebooks thru realbitcoindogmerch.com

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Yea I'll have to take a look. First real thing I wrote was a theory on satoshi. Not the same old shit that's been used over and over.

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12 sats \ 5 replies \ @SaThomas 16h

What kind of book, what kind of publisher? Have you looked at self-publishing on Amazon?

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I just published my first book.
Cyber-mythopiea
https://books2read.com/b/mgMeE6

Just wondering what people paid. I don't even want to say how much I spent.

It's also available here on agora
5,000 sats for a book unlike anything you have ever read.

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12 sats \ 3 replies \ @SaThomas 15h

I thought you made a typo and meant to ask what people were paid.

I personally wouldn't expect to pay anything. Typically publishers pay you to publish their work, historically at least. But now you can self-publish.

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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaThomas 15h
Typically publishers pay you to publish their work

your work, I meant!

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Yea I really didn't want to wait for a publisher to publish.

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I totally understood what you were saying.
Honestly waiting a year or two to publish them taking a large cut of my earnings just isn't the way I like to do things.

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