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Amazon. Big monopoly or several million small ones?

January 30, 2016

Amazon, Big Six, business, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

Every time I think this issue is over it finds its way back into the news. Once again the Authors Guild and their Big 5 masters are screaming a word they just don’t seem to understand. Monopoly. They throw the word around with abandon. Monopoly: mo•nop•o•ly the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. Via: Flickr (license) These articles always manage to work in the word Antitrust, yet they seem to have a hard time with its definition as […]

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It’s the end of the World as we know it…. blah blah blah

Randall

July 7, 2015

Amazon, business, Marketing, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

Photopin (license) I spent most of June on vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. Little to no cell phone coverage. No internet. If we went down the mountain and into town all of our phones would light up like Christmas trees after a certain turn in the […]

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Lee Child and Measuring Success.

Randall

October 16, 2014

Big Six, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

Via: Flickr A few weeks ago Lee Child was brave enough to stick his head into the lions mouth of the indie world. First he appeared on The Passive Voice. […]

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Would I rather win as a reader or as an indie author?

Randall

July 11, 2014

Amazon, Big Six, business, Pricing, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

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Thinking Long-Term

Randall

April 11, 2014

Amazon, business, The Passive Voice

Via: Flickr Evidently, this man is evil? Yesterday on The Passive Voice there was posted an article about Amazon. Nothing unusual there, but this one started a debate that has raged on for over 200 comments as of this writing. The article was from Business Insider and titled: Amazon Pays Its Staff Up To $5,000 If They Quit — No Strings Attached The gist of […]

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What kind of reader are you? Big Pub thinks they know.

Randall

March 3, 2014

Amazon, Author Earnings, Big Six, Bookstore, Hugh Howey, Marketing, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

Via: Flickr This past month we saw the birth of AuthorEarnings, a website created by best-selling author and self-publishing guru Hugh Howey, in trying to expose what kind of money authors, both trade and self published, are really making. […]

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Too Stupid not to Share with you

Randall

February 21, 2014

Via: Flickr As most of my readers know I’m a fathful follower of The Passive Voice, in my opinion the best website out there for self-publishers. A little background. TPV is run by a lawyer who’s wife writes Historical Romance. He describes himself as “an attorney who works with contracts – negotiating them, writing them, analyzing them and […]

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How Indie are you?

Randall

March 14, 2013

Advertising, Amazon, Audio Book Producers, Big Six, Bookstore, CoverArt, Createspace, Dean Wesley Smith, Derek Murphy, Ella, expences, Joe Konrath, Kristine Rush, Lightning Source, Marketing, Self-publishing, The Book Designer, The Digital Reader, The Passive Voice, website

Via: Flickr As the world of self-publishing continues to grow and change, the term indie author is naturally evolving as well. Most would define the term in the simplest definition as possible; Indie Author: An author who produces and publishes their own work without the aid of a traditional publishing entity. But is it really that simple? Is […]

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