A Smashwords Warning - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T17:21:37Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/a-smashwords-warning?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A360262&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAh. Well, the 5-day giveaway…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-19:537324:Comment:3609512012-11-19T14:44:48.664ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>Ah. Well, the 5-day giveaway on Kindle is really already more than I want to do. It may not be worth the promotion if you lose all the sales on the free downloads.</p>
<p>Ah. Well, the 5-day giveaway on Kindle is really already more than I want to do. It may not be worth the promotion if you lose all the sales on the free downloads.</p> It's the same for me, but the…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-18:537324:Comment:3608012012-11-18T22:42:45.819ZM.E. Purfieldhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MEPurfield
<p>It's the same for me, but they are useful when you want to do giveaways with coupons and make something free for a long period of time.</p>
<p>It's the same for me, but they are useful when you want to do giveaways with coupons and make something free for a long period of time.</p> My main complaint about Smash…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-18:537324:Comment:3606392012-11-18T17:58:11.285ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>My main complaint about Smashwords is that they don't sell enough of my books to tempt me.</p>
<p>My main complaint about Smashwords is that they don't sell enough of my books to tempt me.</p> No doubt that amazon is more…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-18:537324:Comment:3607002012-11-18T15:53:50.804ZM.E. Purfieldhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MEPurfield
<p>No doubt that amazon is more equipted with this than smashword. But smashwords does over extend itiself with the premium catalog and them millions of books it takes, I imagine. Where as amazon just has one system and has to just deal with itself.</p>
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<p>Also, I believe that the financial risk is higher with smashword than what amazon is taking. Kindle is still the king of the market right now.</p>
<p>No doubt that amazon is more equipted with this than smashword. But smashwords does over extend itiself with the premium catalog and them millions of books it takes, I imagine. Where as amazon just has one system and has to just deal with itself.</p>
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<p>Also, I believe that the financial risk is higher with smashword than what amazon is taking. Kindle is still the king of the market right now.</p> Thanks, M.E. I finally got t…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-18:537324:Comment:3607972012-11-18T14:42:24.738ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>Thanks, M.E. I finally got the "all-clear" from Amazon, so I assume they finally got around to it. 2-3 weeks is way too long. Amazon manages this in 24 hours.</p>
<p>Thanks, M.E. I finally got the "all-clear" from Amazon, so I assume they finally got around to it. 2-3 weeks is way too long. Amazon manages this in 24 hours.</p> I havent had much trouble rem…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-17:537324:Comment:3605312012-11-17T23:21:14.922ZM.E. Purfieldhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MEPurfield
<p>I havent had much trouble removing a book from smashwords, floowed by the premium catalog. Usually it takes about 2-3 weeks from the thursday it starts. And this is recently for me.</p>
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<p>I havent had much trouble removing a book from smashwords, floowed by the premium catalog. Usually it takes about 2-3 weeks from the thursday it starts. And this is recently for me.</p>
<p> </p> I'm about to get Apple's lega…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-15:537324:Comment:3605092012-11-15T18:31:05.829ZDebbie Bennetthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DebbieBennett
<p>I'm about to get Apple's legal team involved to delist my books that are still showing with my old distributor. And I have no idea what to do with B&N. Any sales I am making via my old distributor are lining his pockets and not mine right now. I will use smashwords only for non-amazon distribution in future - much easier. Smashwords customer service has always been prompt and efficient with me and I've never had an issue with loading straight word docs for their extended distribution.</p>
<p>I'm about to get Apple's legal team involved to delist my books that are still showing with my old distributor. And I have no idea what to do with B&N. Any sales I am making via my old distributor are lining his pockets and not mine right now. I will use smashwords only for non-amazon distribution in future - much easier. Smashwords customer service has always been prompt and efficient with me and I've never had an issue with loading straight word docs for their extended distribution.</p> I published two titles direct…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-15:537324:Comment:3606632012-11-15T17:34:43.122ZCharles Kellyhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/pulpnoir
<p>I published two titles direct to Amazon and used Smashwords for other venues. I took both titles down from Smashwords so I could take part in KDP Select. It took a long time for Smashwords to get the titles down. I think Smashwords has very few staff people. I paid a formatter to do my latest book, a biography of hardboiled writer Dan Marlowe, so I had mobi and epub formats that I could publish directly to Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble and Kobo. This is a better situtation, but it cost me…</p>
<p>I published two titles direct to Amazon and used Smashwords for other venues. I took both titles down from Smashwords so I could take part in KDP Select. It took a long time for Smashwords to get the titles down. I think Smashwords has very few staff people. I paid a formatter to do my latest book, a biography of hardboiled writer Dan Marlowe, so I had mobi and epub formats that I could publish directly to Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble and Kobo. This is a better situtation, but it cost me several hundred dollars for the formatting (I did the book in POD, also), so this is not for everybody. I'm glad Smashwords exists, but in my opinion it is a kind of junky fall-back solution.</p> Not print books, but e-books…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-14:537324:Comment:3604932012-11-14T15:03:08.845ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Not print books, but e-books are affected in this case. Take-downs don't involve book stores.
Not print books, but e-books are affected in this case. Take-downs don't involve book stores. I think there's a time lag be…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-11-14:537324:Comment:3604872012-11-14T11:57:18.703ZKeith Dixonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Keithyd
<p>I think there's a time lag because booksellers take a 'feed' from their distributor's database (Nielsen?). So let's say Nielsen - or whoever - take it off their database, but if B&N don't refresh their feed for a month, the book still shows up. When the feed of books is refreshed, then those books that have been taken off disappear from the B&N listings.</p>
<p>I had this same problem with B&N via Lulu - i.e. a book was made 'not available for sale' from my Lulu account,…</p>
<p>I think there's a time lag because booksellers take a 'feed' from their distributor's database (Nielsen?). So let's say Nielsen - or whoever - take it off their database, but if B&N don't refresh their feed for a month, the book still shows up. When the feed of books is refreshed, then those books that have been taken off disappear from the B&N listings.</p>
<p>I had this same problem with B&N via Lulu - i.e. a book was made 'not available for sale' from my Lulu account, withdrawn, but was allegedly still being published by them and was available on B&N. In the end I had to get both Lulu's and B&N's tech people involved ... though from memory I don't think B&N actually did anything.</p>