One of my least favorite mental illness things is "hungry but dont feel like eating" and its companions "hungry but all the food in the house is Illegal," "hungry but can't make anything," and "hungry, want to eat, but why bother"
I felt like that last one for almost a week straight and made this in response
With my book coming out soon, I thought I'd take this as a chance to answer a very tough question:
Big post incoming!
Before we start talking about the wild, wild world of 👑royalties👑, I want to make this crystal clear:
You want to support me? Easy. Buy my book.
*Now, let’s say you don’t care where you get the book from or your goal is to make sure most of your hard-earned money actually goes to the indie author rather than some corporation… then, in that case, read on!
When you purchase an indie eBook the money you spend is split between the author and the retailer. Depending on the split, more or less of your money will actually end up on the hands of the author you’re trying to support.
This differs from traditional publishing, where the author receives a lump sum as an advance from the publisher (which is then split between author and agent).
The publisher then sells this book on other storefronts, which further splits where the money actually goes.
PS: It is not until the book has actually generated as much revenue as the advance that said author begins to *actually* earn royalties on books sold, which may be as little as cents per book to a percentage of each sale.
To further confuse matters, different retailers offer different royalty rates! 😵
Well, let me give you a tier list—beginning from the TOP!
Buying a book directly from an author's shop is by far the best way support 'em. Outside of a small % that goes to cover for credit card fees (~5% in my case), pretty much all of your money goes to the author.
If the author has a shop—buy it from there!!
It's not just for games, you know! Its royalty rate is one of the most generous with a default 90/10. This is crazy-good compared to most other retailers.
Seriously, more authors should start selling their books on Itch.io!!
Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play Books, and Kobo all offer a 70/30 split. It didn't use to be like this, tho!
If you like to have all of your books on the same platform, buying an indie author’s book through these platforms is honestly A-OK! 👍
Amazon has a default 35/65 rate (ouch) and has the option for a 70/30—but it's not easy. The latter option is not available in all territories and has many prerequisites.
Also, one way to get the 70/30 split is to *exclusively* sell your title on Amazon (ooof).
As if Amazon’s system wasn’t already confusing enough—there’s also *delivery fees*. Yes, you read that right. Amazon charges the author for the delivery of the digital item based on the file size, nickle-and-diming you like it's 2004 and you went over your text message limit.
A sale is better than no sale at all. 🤞
The reason I set out to write this is because the average person has no clue that where you buy a book from actually matters.
You spend your hard-earned money wanting to support an indie author and the bulk of that Hamilton doesn’t even go to them.
And now you know. 🧵🔚
When it comes to independent authors, selling physical copies of your book comes down to two options:
(A) Do print-on-demand, which means that whenever someone wants to buy a copy of your book the company you are doing it through prints a copy and mails it to the customer.
This is, in all honesty, the only feasible option for 99.999% of authors because the other one is…
(B) Order a large number of copies of your book from a printing firm, freight them over to your warehouse/distribution center, and then coordinate your employees to fulfill orders as they come in—you have all these things, right?
As you can imagine, this is a little outside of what most indie authors can do. So getting a physical book from us generally means it's coming from a print-on-demand service.
Before I go on, I want to make something crystal clear:
Now let's talk about the split. This is one of those rare occasions where everyone is pretty much on the same level. Amazon's print of demand service is as standard as it gets.
Author Royalties = (Listing Price - Printing Cost) x 0.6
In plain English: Author royalties are equal to the Listing Price minus the printing cost, and then the remaining revenue is split between the author and the printer 60/40.
I honestly don't mind that print books don't make that much extra money, because unlike eBooks (which are just data), print books require a whole system of logistics that I'm honestly glad I don't have to deal with.
Let me know if any of you have more questions! 👍
There were anti-slavery black writers, and philosophers and politicians denouncing it as inhumane even as the slave trade was ongoing.
There were intellectuals and workers criticizing children labour as children were sent to die into factories.
EVERY time someone tells you that someone was a ''product of their time'' remember that the reason that things changed was because people of THAT epoch were actively fighting and dying to make the world a better place and bringing change.
People who are called ''product of their time'' just defended the status quo and refused to change and acknowledge the humanity of their peers.
so FUCK THEM
Real talk though I got a dentist appointment May 5th. I need $3700 to get my teeth fixed. I am beggjng at this point but I can not look like this. I have no idea how to make myself more visible I would be so thankful if this would get funds to fix my busted grill. I feel so damn ugly right now I cant take it. Please boost this if you see this, reblog, copy the link and share on your twitter or facebook. Please, even a $1.00 help. Anything helps.
I am honestly so embarrassed and ashamed of myself right now asking, but at this point i’m more ashamed looking like I do.
I tried crowdfunding before but gave up, but now i’m determined just look at this
Cashapp:$falulu209
Venmo: mistressfalulu
Paypal/zelle mistressfalulu
Gofundme: https://gofund.me/a6d136a3
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Denver Zoo and its gay lorikeets said fuck homophobes happy Pride
Homophobes: u mean they act like brothers
Denver Zoo: they’re fucking, lorie.
Universal Basic Income as explained by Monsters, Inc.
TL;DW:
In Monsters, Inc., the entire economy of the monster world is based on the evil act of terrifying human children for their screams. It isn’t until the events of the film that Sully and Mike discover by accident that children’s laughter is 10x as powerful as screams at producing power.
Our economy, though not powered by literal screams, is also powered by fear, the fear of death, starvation, and homelessness.
If instead, we shifted our economy to be powered by passion and joy in what we do, instead of the fear of the negative consequences of what happens if we don’t, we’ll be a lot better off not just morally, but economically.
Passionate people doing something because it’s what they love work a lot better and produce better results than those who are forced to work to live.
The way to achieve that joy-based economy is by providing everyone with their basic needs, through a universal basic income.
I can’t believe how much this makes sense
Every day we are able to inact a UBI but aren’t is a day we are doing the economy wrong.
It’s a day where we allow suffering and fear to continue.
It’s a day we as a society didn’t spend to the fullest and a day we aren’t getting back.
the phantom thieves as whose line is it anyway identities
Akira:
Morgana:
Ryuji:
Ann:
Yusuke:
Makoto:
Futaba:
Haru:
Akechi:
and last but not least, all together:
