Can I just take a moment to register what a truly pathetic
author payment system Amazon has set up for its Kindle Digital publishing
Platform, particularly if you don’t live in America? Thank you.
It’s quite easy to put your title up on KDP. Amazon makes the
publishing experience as easy as it makes the ebook purchasing, downloading and
reading experience easy. That’s what they’re all about, right? Wrong.
Firstly they won’t pay you until your book reaches sales of
USD$100. When it does, then within 60 DAYS, they will SEND YOU A CHEQUE. Of
course, if you are living outside America, that cheque will be in US dollars
which means you will pay foreign currency exchange fees at your bank. The bank
will also take 9 WEEKS to finalise the transaction.
Hey, Amazon. It’s the 21st
Century. Funds are whipping round the planet using a thing called the internet,
which I know you’re already pretty familiar with. Why not give it a try for
payments to authors? By comparison, Smashwords will pay me by EFT to my Paypal
account on a quarterly basis. And I don’t need to cross the $100 sales barrier
even. Of course it suits Amazon to do it this way, because it means they can
hang on to your money for longer.
Amazon publishing, buying and reading experience –
excellent. Amazon author getting paid experience – not so good.
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