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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 17:43:06 GMT
Bookady.com offers a new way to publish your ebooks, audiobooks, music and such, and get paid instantly when it sells. Your royalties are instantly credited to your account, and you cna withdraw your money every day, if you want, directly to your PayPal account. There's no minimum level for withdrawal, so if you post your work on Bookady.com and promote it, you can see money coming in from day one. Check out www.bookady.com for more info and to get started. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 21, 2018 23:45:18 GMT
Interesting, I hadn't heard of bookady before. Getting paid instantly sounds great, but what do you do in the case of returns? The reason amazon makes you wait two months to get paid is so that if any of your books are returned they haven't paid you money that they can't get back. Does your store not accept returns or do you eat the costs on our behalf? I don't have PayPal, or else I might sign up to give you guys a try. I use amazon and D2D because they do direct deposit to my bank account. How does your store feel about erotica? Do you accept it all? Do you have limits? On one page you say authors get 75% royalties and on another you say 80%. That's pretty high and will most likely change if your company last and you get popular. I'm always willing to give a new player a chance, so long as they're ethical and above board. So much luckage to you!  |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 22, 2018 0:22:33 GMT
I don't have any proof that this service is scammy, but since Stormy just repped a scammy service and I'm getting a bad feeling, bookady is gonna move to the scammy section unless someone gives me reason to move it back.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 20:48:32 GMT
What scammy service did I promote? Indie Author Times? It's brand new, so how can anyone say it's a scam?
As for your questions about Bookady, if you read the terms of service, every author agrees to allow us to recover any chargebacks that may occur due to fraud or stolen credit cards, but if we miss a few, i doubt it's going to hurt us that badly. There's literally no way to "return" an ebook, so the only likely chargebacks will be from people deliberately trying to cheat the system. PayPal has worked with me in the past to resolve issues like those, and I wouldn't ask anyone to repay a chargeback unless I'd exhausted all other possibilities.
The actual royalty is 75%; the reference to an 80% royalty was from a promotion a few weeks back, and I'll take it down as soon as I find it.
Bookady.com does not accept pure erotica, but we know that there can be erotic content in many books. Erotica, on the other hand, can lead into things that can cause problems for a site like ours, and we'd prefer to avoid them.
Please don't mark me as a scammer. I have an excellent reputation with PayPal, and no record of ever having scammed anyone. This is so unfair, especially from other indies like me who are supposed to be trying to do something to help Indies get the recognition they deserve.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 23, 2018 1:44:26 GMT
@stormysummers, I don't know you at all. So I don't know if you personally are a scammer or not. I would not say you were without any proof. But IAT definitely rings my scam bells with the incentivized reviews. If people are given anything in exchange for a review, including entry into a contest, this behavior is a big Hell NO, and could get anyone associated with that site banned from amazon. And it is exactly the type of thing that scammers do. So since you repped a scammy company on the same day that you repped yours, unfortunately they're gonna get painted with the same brush. I definitely would not want to do business with someone who doesn't recognize scammy behavior when they see it. It may be simple ignorance on your part. If so, you can grow and do better and be a great asset to the indie community. I hope for the latter. |
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Post by writeway on Nov 23, 2018 4:15:39 GMT
At first I was excited just to hear of another possible outlet for books because I'm wide and love having my books in as many places as possible but K'Siennia had some good points. I'm not making judgments on this company yet because I don't know enough about them. I'll do a wait-and-see and some research to see if it would be worth trying out. I'm one of those folks who researches everything before making a move. I'm very cautious and professional. I did see the thread for the Indie Author Times but didn't go into it so wasn't aware of any concerns until they were brought up here.
My big question about the Bookady site is how will it attract readers? What's the plan for that because if it is just a site for authors to list books with no traffic or anyway to get readers there then I don't see the point. Once again, not making a judgment, these are questions I always have whenever I consider putting my books somewhere.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 23, 2018 6:15:26 GMT
How did you even find us, Stormy? We're just this itty bitty little place. We've got like 10 members who post regularly. 10 of the best, but still we're a very small community. Were you lurking on Kboards? I tried to find a Kboards thread on BookAdy but I couldn't find one. I always enjoyed reading those threads over there. They'd always get locked and half the posts would be pruned or deleted, but they were fun popcorn fare. And there were so many posters over there in the good old days who were so much smarter than me. Oh well, this is my kingdom, I guess, for better or worse. Although the peasants have the power when they're here. I feel like the instant payment thing is going to go bad somehow. I don't know that it will. Maybe it will work great and become the new norm. It sounds good on paper, anyway. I think I'm going to move this thread back to where it was because maybe I was too hasty and there's no one here to tell me what I should do.  But I'm leaving the other one here cos that one is just asking for trouble. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 14:33:43 GMT
writeway, the primary way any small bookseller gets attention is by having authors who post their books and then engage in promoting them by telling their fans and readers about its availability. That doesn't mean we don't try; I post a new press release monthly that goes out to news sites (and even some print media) all over the world. It's been suggested that we try to promote Bookady as a "launching pad," where authors can try to send their fans so that they earn some quick money while waiting for their books on Amazon et al to start getting noticed. In any case, we have a few hundred people who come back to the site regularly to see if anything new is there, so I'm trying to get authors to give us a chance.
I guess no one wants to be the first to try anything, but we have been up for nearly a year, and a few authors are giving us a shot. Maybe a few more will try us and then word will really start to spread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 14:36:29 GMT
K'Sennia, a friend of mine who likes this site told me about it. I won't say who she is because I don't want her to be painted with the same brush that's slinging red all over me, but I'm actually wondering if I should have just stayed away. Seems to be a lot of judgment here, without any evidence. Still, you were good enough to listen to my pleas, so I thank you for rearranging the threads a bit.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 23, 2018 16:47:57 GMT
You should post about your business on Kboards. It's all newbies now, all the pros have left, so you might get a better response. And a lot more of it You should be posting about your thread on every writing forum you can find, just in case. But the big places where all the people are is where you should be focusing your time. As a business it actually is your responsibility to get traffic. Yes, authors help a lot, but if you want to bring in the big name authors who will bring the traffic you've got to give them a reason to do so. You can't just sit back and hope they'll come because the majority of them won't. And shunning erotica will not help you there. You need big money and there is a lot of money in smut. You need to study a lot more. Learn the rules of ethical marketing. Be all white hat or go all black hat, but you can't straddle. You need to learn internet marketing. Start with John Carlton and Gary Halbert. You company needs a lot more credibility and trustworthiness before hordes of authors are going to trust you with their careers and livelihoods. Earning that trust is huge, and as long as you've got the attitude that you're doing authors a favor and that we should just be grateful for the opportunity you will remain small and languishing. Amazon gets away with the arrogance cos they have money. Lots and lots and lots of money. With money comes power. The power to crush their competitors. The power to build the infrastructure. The power to advertise everywhere so that everyone knows who they are and what they do. You should also ask, "why do none of the big, successful companies pay authors immediately? Really, look into why that is before you decide to do the opposite, just cos it sounds good. Having to claw back money that's already been paid out is not the way to build a happy business. If you ever manage to get noticed the true, very good at what they do scammmers will find you, and you will lose millions that you will never see again. What you have is not sustainable unless you remain small and obscure. Do a study of all the small, indie publishers and publishing services who have come and gone in the past ten years. Business is hostile. Business is hard. It requires money. Ruthless ambition. And a canyonesque amount of research. You need to know what white hat means, what black hat means, who cares, who doesn't. You've got to understand your marketplace and tailor your message to them. Go back through and read all the past service threads on Kboards. Use the wayback machine to access the deleted posts. Do yourself a favor. Give yourself an education. And keep trying. Don't give up, but don't half-ass it and then whine that nobody likes you. (I'm not saying you're whining. I'm just saying that "general business person you" shouldn't whine when they do everything wrong and don't get the results they want. You cannot be lazy and be successful, says the laziest person in the universe. So I would know. (nods head) |
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