A reminder for when you are buying from small presses....

[alfreda89]

My small press just re-emphasized the fact that Amazon demands so much from a sale on their site that chapbooks and books sell for less than they cost to print. So if you buy small press work from Amazon, you are essentially costing the publisher money. It's PR, but that only goes so far when printing bills are due.

There's a reason the link from my web site to my chapbook goes to Yard Dog Press and not elsewhere. Not only do I make nothing from an Amazon sale of that chapbook? It hurts my publisher.

Not everyone knows this -- in fact, a lot of people think that an author gets a percentage of a used book sale. (No, they don't.) So -- this is your public service announcement for today.

Go forth and be an informed consumer. Render unto Amazon what Amazon does best, and use those PayPal/credit card links at your favorite small presses for books and chapbooks!

Comments

[originalkitsune.livejournal.com]

thanks for the informative post! i had no idea what it really cost to make a book.

i don't know what rizzoli uses but the book was a cookbook with b&w pics and drawings in it, not just text.

i remember someone leaked how much do bands really get paid from spotify, amazon, etc... it caused such a ruckus,,, just so you know it's like .oo59 cents per each time you play the song. :( not as much as one would think. it's like Vegas, the house always wins.