Publish America OR Kindle..a few precise questions for someone expierienced:?
I have been trying to get my books published for years. Normally I get a lovely rejection letter within moments of emailing a publisher or agent (I can’t afford hard copy unless requested but use query tracker to find those who will take electronic).
My questions
Have you published with PA? If I do, I realize they ‘get my book for 7 years’ but am I free to then publish an entirely different story via a ‘real’ publisher/agent? I don’t owe PA any money or any promise of future books, right? Just the 7 for whatever I give them??
Next, I can’t find the FEES for publishing via Amazon Kindle. I gather I can upload my book from my pc to Amazon Kindle, then what? Folks choose to load it to their kindle for a fee, right? I set the price. Do I owe Amazon ANYTHING to do this, obviously they get a cut, but I can’t find those details on their site.
Thanks so much to anyone who offers insight.
Publishamerica is NOT the best publishing group. You can check out the extremely long list of complaints simply by googling the company name, or go to Piers anthony’s internet publishing site (just google that too) He’s a very reputable (reputation is everything on-line) clearing house for publisher data. I would strongly urge you to rethink going with them.
In normal contracts, the seven years is for your book. However in some contracts they try to take everything you have, might create or do or think of doing for seven years so I’d suggest you “read” it. Lol on the money you might owe them. Read the complaints. I think you’ll have a rude awakening. They will ask for money. Not up front, but to do extra stuff for you and for some reason people pay and pay and then they complain. Long after they’ve shelled out thousands of dollars.
Also, remember, if you publish with them and tell people about it, a legitimate publisher will take a very long look at you to see “why” you did. Their reputation (and I can’t stress it enough) isn’t good.
Just because you got turned down doesn’t mean there’s not a reputable house out there for you (and I’d simply use Piers anthony’s list to try again)
Or…you can try a writer’s group and see if maybe there’s a reason you’re getting so many rejections. Many authors spend decades trying to publish. Be patient.
I’m familiar with the Kindle process from a publisher perspective, but I’ve heard that they’ve gone to letting people upload things and that’s a fairly new process. No clue. Maybe someone else knows. But usually if you’re already with a house the house lists your book with Amazon who converts it to Kindle. There are fees to do it. How much I don’t know, sorry.
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