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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on June 10, 2025, 12:53:47 PM »
If an image is purely superfluous, such as an image used to give the impression of round corners (before CSS had routines for that), then the ALT text can be empty.

But, if the image has a purpose, then it should have ALT text.

I don't use Word so I don't know.  I know Pages can do it so I would imagine Word can as well.  But, if I recall, you use an older version of Word, which may not have the feature.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on June 10, 2025, 12:08:27 PM »
How does Alt text even work in a book on a reader device?

I've never seen an image come up with a popup or something.

No idea how you even do that in Word.

Don't even see the point of why you'd need to in the backmatter of a novel.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by R. C. on June 10, 2025, 10:06:27 AM »
Post-Doctorate D is correct.  I was forced by a security plugin to update the ALT text for all the images on my site...

R.C.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by djmills on June 10, 2025, 08:15:49 AM »
Yes, this. ^^
Mainly, use colours that can be seen by colour-blind people, eg. high contrast.
Use text tags to describe every image.
There are more related to coding programs including a zoom lens, but not needed for publishing. And AI results from googling "accessibility features" covers most of it.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on June 10, 2025, 02:00:09 AM »
In the U.S., business websites are required to be ADA-accessible.  It's conceivable that Amazon is adding this to eBooks now, though generally eBooks by their nature are pretty accessible.  Images would require special attention.  I doubt very many of us use images, but if you do, they should have ALT text in their tags so readers for the visually impaired would be able to describe the image for those that can't see it.  Also, and again most of us don't do this, but if you are putting text in specific colors or using backgrounds and such, you want to make sure there is a high enough contrast so it is readable by people with poor vision.  And so on.

Of course, that's a guess but that's what comes to mind when someone says "accessibility features."
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / WTF is "Accessibility Features"?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on June 09, 2025, 06:55:46 PM »
WTF is "Accessibility Features"?

This seems to be something new added to the submission process, but the help page for it is very unhelpful.

Which answer are you supposed to use, when all your images are backmatter text, or a covers poster?

Makes no sense to me.

Anyone explain it? And what answer you should give?

The default answer is "I don't know".
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Drop in low priced paperback royalty is a bit insane.
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on June 08, 2025, 04:09:47 AM »
Quote from: Bill Hiatt on June 07, 2025, 10:19:36 PM
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 07, 2025, 08:45:41 AM
Quote from: Bill Hiatt on June 07, 2025, 07:08:50 AM
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 06, 2025, 07:07:45 AM
Quote from: TimothyEllis on June 05, 2025, 07:01:08 PM
That makes no sense. Go to the pricing page and take an image of the US price box. Without seeing what you're seeing, none of that makes any sense.

Attached is what I see.  It's from the only paperback I have.  Right now, it shows a $2.07 royalty at the 60% rate.  If it dropped to 50%, I calculate my royalty would be $0.06 which isn't much but is more than zero.  But, since it is priced at $19.99, it should not be affected by the change because it is more than $9.99.
Isn't the math wrong?

19.99-9.93=10.06 60% of 10.06 is 6.03. Where is the 2.07 coming from? Am I just missing something obvious?

Amazon deducts the printing cost from your royalty share.

So, 60% of 19.99 is 11.994 minus 9.93 = 2.064 which Amazon kindly rounds up to 2.07.
I guess that's the way it's always been. It would be better for us if the print cost were subtracted from the retail price, and we got 60% of the remainder, which is the way I was doing it. Somehow, I had convince myself that was the way it was actually being done.

That's because that would make the most sense and be the most fair.  That was how I tried doing the math initially as well.  But, this is Amazon, and authors aren't vendors, we're customers.  They promise us great royalties, but then they claw that back if you're using AMS to get those sales in the first place.  And, for print, no doubt they are using their own printing facilities so, beyond the cost of paper, ink and equipment maintenance, they are getting a good chunk of the printing cost as well.  So, they take it from us all the way around.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Drop in low priced paperback royalty is a bit insane.
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on June 07, 2025, 10:19:36 PM »
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 07, 2025, 08:45:41 AM
Quote from: Bill Hiatt on June 07, 2025, 07:08:50 AM
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 06, 2025, 07:07:45 AM
Quote from: TimothyEllis on June 05, 2025, 07:01:08 PM
That makes no sense. Go to the pricing page and take an image of the US price box. Without seeing what you're seeing, none of that makes any sense.

Attached is what I see.  It's from the only paperback I have.  Right now, it shows a $2.07 royalty at the 60% rate.  If it dropped to 50%, I calculate my royalty would be $0.06 which isn't much but is more than zero.  But, since it is priced at $19.99, it should not be affected by the change because it is more than $9.99.
Isn't the math wrong?

19.99-9.93=10.06 60% of 10.06 is 6.03. Where is the 2.07 coming from? Am I just missing something obvious?

Amazon deducts the printing cost from your royalty share.

So, 60% of 19.99 is 11.994 minus 9.93 = 2.064 which Amazon kindly rounds up to 2.07.
I guess that's the way it's always been. It would be better for us if the print cost were subtracted from the retail price, and we got 60% of the remainder, which is the way I was doing it. Somehow, I had convince myself that was the way it was actually being done.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Drop in low priced paperback royalty is a bit insane.
« Last post by Hopscotch on June 07, 2025, 08:47:26 PM »
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 07, 2025, 08:45:41 AM
Amazon deducts the printing cost from your royalty share.  So, 60% of 19.99 is 11.994 minus 9.93 = 2.064 which Amazon kindly rounds up to 2.07.

Gee, vague memory that was the share I used to get from tradpub.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Drop in low priced paperback royalty is a bit insane.
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on June 07, 2025, 08:45:41 AM »
Quote from: Bill Hiatt on June 07, 2025, 07:08:50 AM
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on June 06, 2025, 07:07:45 AM
Quote from: TimothyEllis on June 05, 2025, 07:01:08 PM
That makes no sense. Go to the pricing page and take an image of the US price box. Without seeing what you're seeing, none of that makes any sense.

Attached is what I see.  It's from the only paperback I have.  Right now, it shows a $2.07 royalty at the 60% rate.  If it dropped to 50%, I calculate my royalty would be $0.06 which isn't much but is more than zero.  But, since it is priced at $19.99, it should not be affected by the change because it is more than $9.99.
Isn't the math wrong?

19.99-9.93=10.06 60% of 10.06 is 6.03. Where is the 2.07 coming from? Am I just missing something obvious?

Amazon deducts the printing cost from your royalty share.

So, 60% of 19.99 is 11.994 minus 9.93 = 2.064 which Amazon kindly rounds up to 2.07.
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