RE: The Fall Of A Business—Why My Dislike Of All Government Is Personal
Okay, Glen, after spending all of my available Steemit time reading the postings about your newspaper business and all the comment threads, I have zero time left for semi-intelligent commenting!
It was an interesting read and another opportunity to learn more about you and how hard you work at something you focus on. Failing at an enterprise is not a personal failure or lack of anything since market forces are always beyond the control of the inevitable victims. The frustration at feeling it all slip from your grasp in spite of Herculean efforts on your part to prevent the un-preventable is the hard part to take.
I am also impressed by how much writing you produce in a day, both on direct posts and your voluminous commenting. I bow to you and to @janton, and @lynncoyle1 for your impressive efforts along those lines.
Yesterday, as I worked on major yard/area cleanups, I kept thinking that "yep, this would make a decent photo for Steemit," but I had my gloves on and was too absorbed in the job to take them off so I could use the phone to get a snapshot to illustrate something that would not be interesting anyway.
BUT, re: your comments about a Ebook; the three I have are not great literature, but are not that bad and have been worth the time to write and keep on Amazon. Each new one has resulted in a bump in sales for the previous ones and together are worth more than I could ever make on Steemit. I had also thought of using parts to make individual postings here but the AZ agreement stipulates you cannot have them available in electronic form elsewhere or they bump you from Kindle, so that would be a net loss.
Plus that time I divert to Steemit is time lost from completing book #4, so it's a constant dilemma on how much time to spend where. I enjoy the personal exchanges here but I'm afraid I'm developing more of an addictive behavior and, being a professional bean counter at one time, I do tend to count tasks and goals met and those time-management things that become self-destructive energizers meaning that I chase goals because they are goals, not because they are the best expenditures of time.
My feeling is that the more you have in book form, the more synergy there is in having it all on AZ, both in hard copy and Kindle. Every new book helps the existing books marginally, and that is a something for nothing gain.
You can go back and change anything at will, making revisions simple. At least your creations don't disappear from the revenue stream after one week, and that's the biggest plus of all!
I've told someone else here, that I feel like I keep arriving but I've never arrived. There's always another stepping stone to take. I had hoped that Kindle would end up being that final destination, but it wasn't. I guess I could loop around, and really, I would love, too, but for those of us who self-publish, if something doesn't take off for whatever reasons, it's tough to get them to take off enough to warrant more time on books, promotion, etc. And so, it's the small fish in the huge ocean concept.
I'm glad to hear you've had some success with it. I've always understood the agreement to be that you couldn't undersell Amazon, but that the ebooks could exist on other sites for the same price. Anyway, it's been a few years since I've poked around in the agreement and so maybe it's changed to exclusivity. As it is, I thought the other places the books could go were worse at visibility or promotion or providing tools for promotion, anyway, since I never had any revenue come from say, Barnes and Noble or Apples book site. I haven't tried the independent ones, but they have ways of getting bought out and incorporated in one of the larger ones, too. :)
So nice of you to mention me with the likes of Glen and Janton, but from the looks of this comment, I'd say you are more than capable of the same :)
Just for that compliment, I'm putting you on my Double Secret Person list!
hahaha I'm afraid to ask, but what's your "Double Secret Person" list? :)
It is so secret I can't tell you, but it's not a bad thing.
hahaha fair enough @willymac 😅