archangel9 Posted 8 December , 2013 Share Posted 8 December , 2013 Just seen an ad which seems to suggest that the Kindle Fire can output Films/TV etc to a TV wirelessly. Possible? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 9 December , 2013 Share Posted 9 December , 2013 A couple today - Richard Van Emden's " The Soldier's War" and Robert Ryan's "Dead Man's Land" - both 99p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 9 December , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 December , 2013 Well at least you can empathise with Jellicoe: storm-tossed at Jutland and having difficulty communicating with his colleagues!! Yes quite, it did feel like life on the ocean wave for a time but thankfully we weren't flooded out. Having no broadband though did mean fewer distractions and I caught up with books I wanted to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 9 December , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 December , 2013 Just seen an ad which seems to suggest that the Kindle Fire can output Films/TV etc to a TV wirelessly. Possible? John Hopefully someone else with a Kindle Fire can tell you more. I tend not to do anything too technical because it's beyond my capabilities. Mine is one of the first Kindle Fire HD tablets, so maybe it's a feature of the latest version?. A couple today - Richard Van Emden's " The Soldier's War" and Robert Ryan's "Dead Man's Land" - both 99p What a bargain! Shame I already have them but enjoyed reading both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 16 December , 2013 Share Posted 16 December , 2013 Today's offering: Passchendaele: The Hollow Victory by Martin Evans - 99p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 16 December , 2013 Share Posted 16 December , 2013 Today at 0.77p, Max Plowman 'Subaltern on The Somme' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djcrtoye Posted 16 December , 2013 Share Posted 16 December , 2013 If you look very hard you can find free books to download. My most recent one is 1914 by Sir John French haven't started it yet. Also memiors of a dug out officer can't remember the name, but it's about a retired general officer who is working behind the scenes during the conflict. Also one about the Australians that takes you from enlistment to the trenches of France, bit like ANZACS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 17 December , 2013 Share Posted 17 December , 2013 That's Calwell. Quite an interesting read. Most of the free ones on Kindle are actually just lifted from Archive.org or project Gutenberg where they are also free. The low priced offers on Kindle are more tempting as they are still within copyright and therefore not available from the usual free sources. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 26 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 26 January , 2014 Today's Daily Deal 'Spying in WW1 - The true story of Margriet Ballageer' 99p http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DY4CW2S/ref=pe_364691_36330161_M1T1DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 26 January , 2014 Share Posted 26 January , 2014 Thanks for the tip-off, it looks an interesting story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrette Posted 27 January , 2014 Share Posted 27 January , 2014 You can't get a better deal on my book than the £5.56 Kindle edition available now at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Flanders-German-Defeat-1918-ebook/dp/B008O8I72S/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1386267425 But as John said above, I think I make about 0.25p on it when you buy. Don't forget to do it through the GWF link - they'll make a lot more that way than the poor author does. Is that less than you get for a paper sale, Chris? If so I think it's about time kindle owners were aware of this. I had always thought the reduction in price was due to savings in postage and paper, not royalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 28 January , 2014 Share Posted 28 January , 2014 I'll have to check my last pitiful royalties statement from P&S. I'll edit this when I find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted 28 January , 2014 Share Posted 28 January , 2014 I think that I paid 99p for the Kindle edition of Max Hastings's 1914 book. Hastings himself must get about that for each full price hardback sold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 28 January , 2014 Share Posted 28 January , 2014 I also bought the Kindle edition of Catastrophe at 99p (I've alread got the hardback, glutton for punishment, some may say) but it's back to £9.54 today. The very cheap deals usually only apply for a day or two, and you have to keep your eye out for them. Chris' book will probably go up again, but if it did drop to 99p, I'd download it, though, as with Sirmax, I've got it in hardback. I suppose we should all be mindful of how much work goes into the books we want, against the price we like to pay, and how little the author might get, but is that covered by the publisher's advance, and further earnings from sales seen as a bonus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eairicbloodaxe Posted 28 January , 2014 Share Posted 28 January , 2014 "...but is that covered by the publisher's advance, and further earnings from sales seen as a bonus?..." Laughs wryly on behalf of all the other authors out there. How many of you have ever received an advance? And even if you did, what did it work out at when divided by the thousands of hours work involved in writing the thing? Yes, once you get a "name" (or get lucky!) advances still exist. But rather thin on the ground for your average unknown/first/second time author... Regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 28 January , 2014 Share Posted 28 January , 2014 Would hope that any royalty due on a book, whether hard copy or electronic, would not be affected by the retailers' or distributors' discounted sales; I doubt that the writer has any input on the decision to offer the discount, so hopefully only the retailers profit margin is eroded?NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 30 January , 2014 Share Posted 30 January , 2014 Another one today - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008R01IE2/ref=amb_link_179648447_9?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0CWBJAPPMB72C15ZDVD5&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=464729087&pf_rd_i=1000577623 A Crisis of Brilliance - Five Young British Artists and the Great War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 30 January , 2014 Share Posted 30 January , 2014 My experience is that the author gets a percentage of the sale price. So if the book sells at 99p you get 7.5% of that (softback) or 10% (hardback) if my memory is correct. Kindle sales treated in the same way at the softback rate, I think. You do get a modest advance, though and initial sales are charged against that so it only becomes an issue when sales reach your advance; after that a 99p sale nets you very little. I suspect my 'hourly rate' as an author (counting research and writing time) is about £1.20 or similar... We do it for the love... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 30 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 30 January , 2014 Quite often though, I've downloaded a daily deal for 99p and enjoyed the book so much that it's made me look for and purchase other titles by the same author at a higher price. I did wonder if authors agreed for a book to be one of daily deals, so that readers would look for other titles written by them (?) I assumed that authors had given permission, so that this would in fact happen? Some of the daily deals end up on the Kindle bestseller list. Surely no bad thing for an author? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 13 February , 2014 Share Posted 13 February , 2014 Dreadnought by Robert Massie - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00D5FOGL6/ref=amb_link_179919887_9?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0R3A526F9HWR35KVS6MN&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=468899027&pf_rd_i=1000577623 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 13 February , 2014 Share Posted 13 February , 2014 Bought....cheers. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honora Posted 13 February , 2014 Share Posted 13 February , 2014 Also bought - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 4 April , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 April , 2014 Queen Victoria's granddaughters 1860-1918: Christina Croft http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Victorias-Granddaughters-1860-1918-Christina-ebook/dp/B00BHIUG26/ref=br_lf_m_1000577623_1_2_img?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&pf_rd_p=482936267&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000577623&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0SJT7BT9QAC7MQHAMY3Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Alton Posted 4 April , 2014 Share Posted 4 April , 2014 All 5 vols of Winston Churchill's WW1 History 'The World Crisis' available for 99p each vol 1 here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Crisis-Winston-Churchills-Collection-ebook/dp/B00FFD2DP2/ref=pd_sim_kinc_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BXRQXF46PG7588B10ZE Also Roy Westlake's 'British Battalions on the Western Front Jan-June 1915' available for £1.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Battalions-Western-Front-Westlake-ebook/dp/B00E8HPN08/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1396652391&sr=1-3-catcorr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 4 April , 2014 Share Posted 4 April , 2014 All 5 vols of Winston Churchill's WW1 History 'The World Crisis' available for 99p each vol 1 "Winston's writing about his role in the war, it's called 'The World Crisis'" Asquith Still worth it for his turn of phrase David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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