OOC – /The Wrath of Trees/ in Divers Formats

[sythyry]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

The e-book of The Wrath of Trees is up at Smashwords, here. You can get it formatted for most readers, from plain text or HTML to epub (iPad, Nook, etc.) and Kindle.

I didn’t intend for it to be up there before, since there were some problems with the illustrations. If you got a copy there already, go back and get a good one. If you bought one copy there, I think you should be able to get the new one for free.

Comments

[redbird]

It's listed as $2.99.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Sorry sorry -- the book costs $2.99, but if anyone bought it before, they should be able to get the new version without paying extra. I hope.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

How much of that $2.99 do you get? Do you get more if I get it from elsewhere, or in paperback?

I mean, I'd still like a physical copy, but grabbing it in electronic form for quite cheap would be a nice stopgap until shipping becomes a bit less budget-prohibitive.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

(Bought!)
(My understanding is that printing books is inherently rather expensive. The last place I was at published some books and tried selling them, but they ended up having to price them at $35 each to cover the costs of printing plus make a fundraising profit at all - that said, it was full of printed photographs, so that raises the price some.)
(Still, yes, most if not all of us like seeing artists earn as much from their work as possible, so whichever formats put the most money back to the artist will be most popular if we know what they are. I certainly want to be able to earn better money off of the (nonfiction, academic) books I will someday be authoring.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I get a good deal of the $2.99 from either Amazon or Smashwords (I think I get a bit more from Smashwords), and I'm happy however you choose to get the book.

Conversely, I need to sell several hundred to break even on the book; as with World Tree and Sythyry and such, I don't ever expect to. So don't worry about it.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

(Yay!)

Printing costs more than copying a file of course! But black-and-white interiors and going with CreateSpace's most standard page size and all meant that I get a decent share of the cover price for the printed book.

I daresay I will post in bard-bloom.livejournal.com about how the self-pub experience goes, after it's gone for a bit.