04-19-2024, 03:01 PM | #2611 | |
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I have read and watched multiple interviews with indie authors discussing Amazon exclusivity to going wide and to a person they make more with Amazon. I'm going to believe that those authors coupled with JBaby's experience with her friend is more compelling than you insisting it's not true. |
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04-19-2024, 03:10 PM | #2612 | |
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Anyway, even if it would on average be true for all small publishers / writers (larger publishers do not have the exclusivity limit, funny that!) that would not make it right. |
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04-19-2024, 05:10 PM | #2613 | |
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No one is arguing that the terms aren’t bad for authors. We’re saying even with those bad terms they are doing better than they ever have before. All of these authors can’t all be outliers. Do outliers exist? Of course. Are they all outliers? Unlikely. There’s just too many examples at this point. The friend I was referring to isn’t even my only author friend. I have another friend and he’s saying the same thing. They don’t each other so they aren’t conspiring to convince me of this. I’ve seen each of their KDP Dashboards. I’ve also seen the numbers from when they were wide. The difference between the two are extreme. As much as I what them to be wide it just doesn’t make financial sense for them to be wide. BTW, if there aren’t reliable statistics why were you implying that I should have supplied them? |
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04-19-2024, 06:23 PM | #2614 |
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04-19-2024, 07:26 PM | #2615 |
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04-19-2024, 10:30 PM | #2616 | ||
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I don't know. You were pretty quick to dismiss reports as outliers, but you seem to be the only person that knows about the vast swathe of authors that would make more money by going wide.
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04-20-2024, 08:50 AM | #2617 |
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It's a feature that needs to go. Make sorting by case an option. But don't make the filesystem case specific.
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04-20-2024, 09:50 AM | #2618 | |
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CP/M, ISIS II, DOS (and thus win 1.x to win 3.x, Win9x & ME, probably Win 4.x (chinese Win 3.x) ) couldn't be. Long file names on FAT (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFAT) is a fudge. A file system should be case sensitive (at least optionally), but sorting and searching should optionally ignore it. Display of directories/folders before or after files has nothing inherently to do with case. MS & IBM massively messed up in 1980/1981. A massive leap backwards and in 1995 Win9x should have only been a replacement for the failed MSX console. No security at all on Win9x and not proper support of Win32 API (like can't create named pipes). |
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04-20-2024, 10:10 AM | #2619 | |
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I started with UNIX (BSD). Case sensitive all the way. There is even a Registry tweak in Windows to make that happen (as well as one for the clock Time to make dual booters life simple . Windows changes the CMOS to local, everyone else uses sets it to GMT / utc and applies the timezone to what YOU see) |
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04-20-2024, 10:16 AM | #2620 |
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Could posters take their technical issues to the Technical V&R thread in the lounge, please? Nothing wrong with a little thread drift, but reading issues should predominate in this thread.
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04-20-2024, 12:18 PM | #2621 |
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04-21-2024, 04:41 PM | #2622 |
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While explaining the concept of cozy mysteries to a German friend who'd never heard the term, they went "How is a MURDER a COZY mystery???"
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04-21-2024, 05:07 PM | #2623 |
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Cozy mysteries are murder stories? I thought that was supernatural stuff.
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