Comments on: The Self Publishing Money Trap

By: Greg Scowen

Greg Scowen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:55 +0000

I applied for and received a TIN (also from Switzerland) around the time you posted this, Derek. It was no problem… though slow and the form is a but curly.

Once I sent it to KDP and CreateSpace it took about 1 week to get a response. Great service.

Also, a tip on the CreateSpace front, you can ask then to hold royalty payments. When you have accumulated enough to make a US cheque worth it, then release payment to yourself.

By: Diane Farr

Diane Farr — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:45:39 +0000

In reply to Amazon kept my $.

If you’re not doing anything else with your book, why on earth did you pull it? More people are buying Kindles and other e-readers every day. Their relatively small percentage of the book market is going to jump this Christmas when everyone opens their Kindle Fires. If I were you, I’d put it back up and be patient.

You can read about my own self-pub journey at http://www.bestbyfarr.com. It has been amazing – at least to me.

Diane Farr

By: Amazon kept my $

Amazon kept my $ — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:59:32 +0000

You were right. I’m ashamed to say it but my book was 99 cents on Amazon and I didn’t sell enough copies to even surpass the $10 mark before I finally pulled it. At the 99 cent price point, it just wasn’t selling enough fast enough for me to ever get paid. I was going to revise it but it’s on the back burner for now. Anyway, Amazon kept the money I made from the sales.

You were right.

By: Clifton Hill

Clifton Hill — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:13:56 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Never would have thought of this otherwise. Didn’t even sound like a problem till the end of the article. Good points!