I watch too many YouTubers who purchase bad books so they can do reviews or readings for entertainment purposes, which I both hate and understand. But when one YouTuber expressed surprise the QAnon book of poems they bought was available in hardcover, I felt uselessly compelled to point out in their comments it's no longer that impressive/surprising now Amazon is beta testing hardcover for KDP.
I did see someone's end result online (some self-pubbers really have capitalised on this partly by reviewing their author copies to show whether this service is worth the effort) and it looked good enough I spent time on Fiverr (which is an absolute misnomer now) looking at packages to reformat my books to hardcover. Well, I mean one book. I can't do it with the one I want to, it's taken me so long to get the cover right for paperback, at the expense of the interior design. My reason to pay someone else is to just spare myself some headaches but the packages for a full format were hundreds of dollars. So, basically commission-based artists have figured out how to do what some hybrid/vanities were already doing. And I don't know if this would still help get Amazon's "trad" books into brick and mortars anyway, maybe they released it for that purpose but I doubt it would work when all the info says it's an Amazon publication. Besides that, nobody wants the paperbacks. I could reduce all the prices, it doesn't make a difference. People asked for the link but never bought them. So I'm just going to mark them down to lowest price rounded up/down to nearest 10c where required. GST gets factored in anyway. Given nobody cares about the children's book either, I have 2 dollars I need to donate one day to the charity I nominated, which convinced nobody to buy it, I had to add the dollar to it just to get that profit to donate otherwise it was straight out of my pocket anyway. (I haven't even received that money from Blurb anyway) I've never said I'll give up trying but realistically, I don't know how else to get these off the ground without spending so much more on marketing. Looking into it right now makes me tired as fuck. Because I am and it is and will always be so much exhaustion for so little reward. Reformatting anything right now is pointless, I'd be doing it to have something to do which is a bad idea. Going back over documents I'm not so happy with anyway, trying to fix any remaining issues just sounds like pain for nothing too. I said I quit so I should stick to that.
I'm more annoyed people are impressed with certain aspects of this I know aren't impressive to me, when really I should just leave everyone to whatever delusions they have.
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