{"id":352,"date":"2008-08-27T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitziszereto.wordpress.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-04-02T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:07:08","slug":"this-time-next-year-well-be-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/this-time-next-year-well-be-millionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires!"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I haven’t suddenly gone into the business of flogging dodgy goods off a pitch at the market, nor will I be claiming that said goods have fallen off the back of a lorry either. But I did take a little peek at my Amazon Kindle<\/a> books royalties for my M. S. Valentine novels and wah-hey – I’m now up to thirty bucks! (And yes, that’s in U.S. greenbacks.) Okay, I realise this might only get me a couple of foot-long sandwiches at Subway with a bit left over for a trip to Starbucks, but this could be a nice little earner, as Del Boy<\/a> would say.<\/p>\n

For those of you who haven’t read my previous blog post on the subject (Is the Print Book Destined For Death<\/a>), my very first Amazon Kindle book The Captivity of Celia<\/em><\/a> was published a few weeks ago, and since then the entire catalogue of my out-of-print M. S. Valentine erotic novels have been re-issued on this platform. I’m so impressed with the Kindle’s ease of use and potential for growth that I’m now looking into putting together a special collection of my short stories and having it sold via Kindle. This electronic reader is growing in popularity, and I’ve no doubt Amazon will develop a version compatible in other markets, such as the U.K. and Europe.<\/p>\n

It’s inevitable that as mainstream publishing continues to cut back on the numbers of books they publish, not to mention continues to offer ridiculous advances to fly-by-night celebrities whose books fail dismally in the sales department, legitimate writers will be forced to seek out more and more alternative and innovative ways to get their product into the marketplace. Companies such as Amazon are well aware of the pitfalls we writers face – and they are providing us with the means to take some control over our literary destinies into our own hands. So while a major publisher robs Peter to pay Paul (you being Peter, Paul being the big celebrity “author”), and while hot-shot literary agents linger over a three-hour lunch at Tavern on the Green<\/a> yet can’t even spare a minute to reply to your emails, at least you can be pro-active as opposed to just banging your head against your computer keyboard.<\/p>\n

Maybe thirty dollars is no great shakes, but I’m not complaining. Wah-hey, it’s a start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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