paulgranger Posted 30 May , 2014 Share Posted 30 May , 2014 A large number of P&S's titles are available in Kindle format, downloadable directly from their site, at what appears to be a universal price of £4.99. This isn't necessarily cheap, but it does seem to better the price that Amazon are charging for the same books, in a lot of cases, e.g Ray Westlake's British Battalions in France 1914, and Jack Sheldon's German Army on the Western Front 1915. Worth a browse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 30 May , 2014 Share Posted 30 May , 2014 It was even better when they were offering 2 for the price of 1 a while back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 30 May , 2014 Author Share Posted 30 May , 2014 It was, and I dipped my bucket in that well a couple of times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 30 May , 2014 Share Posted 30 May , 2014 It was even better when they were offering 2 for the price of 1 a while back! Although not if one was looking forward to author royalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 30 May , 2014 Share Posted 30 May , 2014 And not to download from an address outside the UK. For some bizarre reason I can only download from Amazon.com, and not from Amazon.co.uk By "I", I mean anyone outside the UK. The explanation is a bit like that given by the BBC for not being able to use Iplayer TV from outside the UK. "You can't. So there" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 30 May , 2014 Share Posted 30 May , 2014 Although not if one was looking forward to author royalties. True, John, but I did download far more books at a price point of £2.50 than I would have done at £4.99. If others do the same, maybe it does profit the authors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 31 May , 2014 Share Posted 31 May , 2014 All profit is good, Alan. But when your royalty payment is, say, 10% of sale price, you need to sell quite a number of Kindle copies to reach the royalty of a twenty quid hardback. But, as I suspect most folk realise, there's really only the "big names" make proper profit. Most of us, writing the history of our pet battalion, are fortunate if we recoup the money we spent going to Belguim/France to take the photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 1 June , 2014 Share Posted 1 June , 2014 Hear, hear, John. If we were in it for the dosh we`d have to write fiction... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 1 June , 2014 Share Posted 1 June , 2014 All profit is good, Alan. But when your royalty payment is, say, 10% of sale price, you need to sell quite a number of Kindle copies to reach the royalty of a twenty quid hardback. But, as I suspect most folk realise, there's really only the "big names" make proper profit. Most of us, writing the history of our pet battalion, are fortunate if we recoup the money we spent going to Belguim/France to take the photographs. Kindle give authors 70% of cover price. Paper publishers rarely give more than 10% and many not even that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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