Our Shared Shelf discussion

According to 'The Bookseller', sales of Gloria Steinem's "My Life on the Road" have soared by 109% since Emma launched Our Shared Shelf:

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Pretty cool. YOU did that ;-)
Just thought I would share.

Lol considering the number of people in OSS im not surprised haha

Yay! Excellent!

Hmm, I have been reading Gloria Steinem's books on Kindle Unlimited. They were all on there but since her sales on "My Life on the Road" have rocketed, all of her books are off of Kindle Unlimited. I'm very disappointed in that. I'm glad people are getting her books but why did they have to take all her books off Kindle Unlimited? Not fair.

I think it's an effort to make sure that the author is compensated for her work. Already when it comes to books, authors receive a much smaller percent of the price than they do from print sales. It's a huge problem that needs to be addressed. For now, by removing them from Kindle Unlimited, both Steinem and Amazon are benefitted. Steinem, more importantly. It's kind of like Taylor Swift removing her music from Spotify. At a certain point, artists were not being compensated fairly given the amount of music that was being streamed. Similar in this case, I think, aside from the fact that Amazon also stands to benefit, in addition to the writer.

Katelyn, I understand your point of view but it really boils down to the publisher and not Steinem, which makes the Taylor Swift comparison not accurate. I'm a huge fan about getting the information out there, especially something very much in the eye of social change to be more available to the people. This is why I support Open Library that was created by Aaron Swartz. I'm also a huge fun of Coursera. Offering free college courses from good colleges and universities to anyone with internet access. Anyway, that's my rant and here are two good resources for people to look at.

Cool! :D
Kinda expected that, with over 50k people buying and reading it for OSS!
Once again shows how much impact our community has!!

-Simon <3

RachelvlehcaR wrote: "Katelyn, I understand your point of view but it really boils down to the publisher and not Steinem, which makes the Taylor Swift comparison not accurate. I'm a huge fan about getting the informatio..."

Thanks for the links! I didn't mean that it was Steinem's decision, and I realize that it is mostly Amazon protecting Amazon's interests, I just meant that it does have the benefit of helping the author, who already loses money when people purchase ebooks (because of the unfair percentages compared to print), and even more when it is part of the Unlimited offerings (which is what I meant with my Spotify comparison).

Robert wrote: "this is why we need urgently the affiliate link. Some of that money could have gone to charity..."

Yea right I´ve read about your Idea in your (think it was??) thread and still think the idea is brilliant!
Isn´t there any kind of progress yet? (sorry didn´t find the actual thread)

Greets

Hello Everyone!

I wrote about our wonderful book club for a website I work for. Just thought I should share. :)

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Nicely written Vishnu :D

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Cool~

I am still in awe when I think what we have achieved. I had to wait SIX weeks for my copy because it had to be shipped(and Austria is not near the North Sea, so that adds up the time too. The bookshop assistant had to order it specifically for me, since they didn't have it in stock in the store. But it was worth it, since the book really showed me a lot.

109%, I still can't believe it. My 20€ are a part of that. I simply can't believe that it is 109%, because that means that the amount of sold books has more than doubled. Without us, this book wouldn't have got the same advertisement also, since it was written a lot that Emma chose My Life on the Road as the first book for OurSharedShelf.

109% is simply immense, huge, can't think of other words to describe that.