It is nice to see the membership growing! As for now the updates are these: I have realized that most of us who are self published do get a bit of the bad deal when it comes to big business. The % in royalties from the big guys like Amazon versus the % in royalties if people by direct from our publishers. Since my web-site sits on a server that gave me pretty much an unlimited traffic deal, I am about to work on a link page. This should be ready within a week or so; The idea is this that the page becomes it's own domain and will act as a "book-search-engine". Authors can list their books there and have people go from their to either the author's personal pages or direct to the author's publisher to add the book to their shopping cart. The more authors participate, the better it is for search engines like Google and so to find our Link-page when a title or author is searched. I will update you all on the progress of this as soon as my webmaster becomes active again. (He is presently side tracked with some serious family issues)
As for now the updates are these:
I have realized that most of us who are self published do get a bit of the bad deal when it comes to big business. The % in royalties from the big guys like Amazon versus the % in royalties if people by direct from our publishers.
Since my web-site sits on a server that gave me pretty much an unlimited traffic deal, I am about to work on a link page.
This should be ready within a week or so;
The idea is this that the page becomes it's own domain and will act as a "book-search-engine". Authors can list their books there and have people go from their to either the author's personal pages or direct to the author's publisher to add the book to their shopping cart.
The more authors participate, the better it is for search engines like Google and so to find our Link-page when a title or author is searched.
I will update you all on the progress of this as soon as my webmaster becomes active again. (He is presently side tracked with some serious family issues)
Guenter