Program for aspiring writers

Hey guys,

Just found out about a program from a big bookstore here in Brazil that offers to publish your novel as an eBook, and you get 35% of the price of the book for yourself. I was just wondering if that's a good deal, compared to you guy's experience. I heard Amazon has a similar program, does anybody knows the especific for this?

erikphandel wrote: Hey guys,

Just found out about a program from a big bookstore here in Brazil that offers to publish your novel as an eBook, and you get 35% of the price of the book for yourself. I was just wondering if that's a good deal, compared to you guy's experience. I heard Amazon has a similar program, does anybody knows the especific for this?

Amazon's program is called Kindle Direct Publishing. It's what I've used for my "Gray Savidge" books.

kdp.amazon.com/

They have a 35% royalty rate for books below $2.99, and a 70% royalty rate for books $2.99 and above. You can also sign up for a program that makes your book available on Kindle Unlimited, which is a subscription model that pays somewhere about 45-50 cents per hundred pages read.

If you are comfortable creating your own eBook files (I use Scrivener), it's very easy to manage, even for overseas sales (I'm in the US).

I don't know how it compares to other programs, because it's the only one I've used. Anecdotaly, I've heard good things about SmashWords as a platform for erotic eBooks, but I have no experience.

Oh that's really helpful. I'd rather earn in dollars because the real is going down the drain really fast. Although most people I know wouldn't be able to buy stuff with dollars. I'll ponder the options. Thanks a lot!

erikphandel wrote: Oh that's really helpful. I'd rather earn in dollars because the real is going down the drain really fast. Although most people I know wouldn't be able to buy stuff with dollars. I'll ponder the options. Thanks a lot!

I don't know if you can still earn in dollars if you are based outside the US. There was some specific language in the agreement about royalties in Brazil for residents vs. non-residents that I didn't look at because it didn't really apply to me. Check the agreement before clicking on publish...

I believe you will be earned in BRL. The only option to receive in USD would be a Paypal Account or something similar in a US Address in order to be charged in your Credit Card.

But I don't recommend. Believe it or not, the Brazilian Revenue Service has one of the best surveillance systems to track where the money is and plenty of legal excuses to charge you. If government used to work in the same standard they charge, we would be an island of prosperity between our creepy neighbours