Received: from localhost ([::1]:47552 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1ciVwq-0001VC-Bj; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:47:24 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1ciVwo-0001V3-Vg; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:47:23 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:47:22 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: Bob LeChevalier Message-ID: <20170228004722.GB10225@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bob LeChevalier , mukti , llg-board@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Subject: Re: [llg-board] Kindle EBook via Amazon. X-BeenThere: llg-board@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: llg-board@lojban.org Cc: llg-board@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: llg-board-bounces@lojban.org On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > On 2/27/2017 12:14 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > We've been having some trouble getting Amazon and Ingram Spark > > to talk to each other, such that the Kindle EBook isn't > > available in the right place (with the new print edition). > > > > So I went and made a Kindle Direct Publishing account and > > published it there. It will take 72 hours to show up, and we'll > > see if it helped. If nothing else, this should give me a way to > > talk to Amazon about where the ebook is showing up. > > Is this tied into our corporate amazon account, or is this > something new and separate? Please make sure that mukti at least > has the details, since as Sec/Treas he is the one responsible for > LLG official communications. Same account. > > I went with their 70% royalty configuration, which caps the > > price at $9.99, leaving us with $6.70 (I think?) in royalties > > per book. Since the book is free, this seemed the polite thing > > to do. The board should feel free to direct me to assign > > another price, but bear in mind that if we go any higher we have > > to do 35% royalties. > > The Board should decide, but I myself cannot see any reason to go > higher. Are we getting even that much from LS on the printed book? > I can't recall where you reported on the financial arrangements, > and LS seems to have stopped sending the monthly POD financial > statements last summer, and the amounts PayPal reports them as > depositing do not seem to be multiples of a royalty amount. It's not Lightning Source anymore, it's Ingram Spark, and I have no idea how much we're making but it's not very much. > > Depending on how it works out, I may or may not pull the ebook from > > Ingram Spark. > > > > I've also signed up to try to get Search Inside This Book working, > > which it turns out is a completey independent-of-everything-else > > account that you request via email (0___o). > > > > Bob: this means your phone number is now in two more places. This > > is unlikely to come up. > > I'm used to my phone number being all over the place - it has been > for 30 years now %^). As long as I know that you are the person I > should contact, if I get a call. (I didn't know that you, or Ali, > were still actively working this.) I consider dotting all the Is on the CLL update to be the last thing I really owe the community. _______________________________________________ llg-board mailing list llg-board@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-board