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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Touching Base
« Last post by TimothyEllis on February 08, 2025, 10:37:26 PM »
What's wrong with the docx?

Nothing.

What I am interested in is a more efficient ePub creation process.

Why?  :icon_think:

What does an epub give you before upload that the docx does not?
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Touching Base
« Last post by R. C. on February 08, 2025, 10:32:21 PM »
What's wrong with the docx?

Nothing.

What I am interested in is a more efficient ePub creation process.

R.C.
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It's always hard to lose an animal you've known for a long time. My condolences!

As for checks, yes, people who do some kind of work at my home (plumbing, painting, etc.) are normally set up only for cash or checks.

Here, no-one takes cheques anymore. Not for home visit services. They do credit card on the spot, or they do electronic transfer from invoice.

The ones still doing cash are deliberately avoiding paying GST, or having a traceable income. There are plenty of people who want to pay less that enable this. That's what cash machines are for.

Same in the UK.
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Sorry about your horse, Lorri.   :icon_sad:
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Touching Base
« Last post by TimothyEllis on February 08, 2025, 11:20:30 AM »
What's wrong with the docx?
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The ones still doing cash are deliberately avoiding paying GST, or having a traceable income.

That's a BS narrative sold by politicians and other miscreants that want to be able to pry into every aspect of our lives and be able to control everything, including, eventually, how we spend our own money.

No, it's not.  :icon_mrgreen:

That's from the lips of tradesmen.

There's a lot here who only work on a cash basis. No records, no GST paid. Cheaper work done.

There's also a lot who will quote for a job properly, and then tell you it can be cheaper if we pay cash.

The government of course wants to stamp this out, which is why there are moves to go to a cashless society. But it won't happen easily, since the cash society here still lives.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Will 99 cent ads followed by a free ad work for a sequel?
« Last post by alhawke on February 08, 2025, 10:11:12 AM »
You can always run multiple promos within a month apart, or so, as long as they go reduced in price. I've had success pricing $2.99 and then $0.99. Can't see why $0.99 to, later, free wouldn't work. You just don't want to go backwards and try sales at increased prices only a month apart.
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You don't have to do it for Goodreads. Readers can review upcoming ebooks there before the book is published.
Still considering this:

Hmm, I could be wrong there about Goodreads. It could be that since I nearly always publish my paperback first, my book would be up way before my ebook every time. You really don't have to worry about Goodreads though. Lately, my paperback pops up automatically within a couple days. So if you publish your paperback, it should show up on Goodreads automatically and work universally for later ebook reviews.
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Yep. I do this all the time to have early reviews while my ebook is on preorder.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Also Boughts now include sponsored ads
« Last post by Lynn on February 08, 2025, 09:18:45 AM »
The way I look at it is that brand building should follow purpose.

If you want to sell books first and foremost, you need to write some books and find out what sells for you (maybe you have a certain style that isn't fit for some genres even if that's what you like best so that'll be when you have to decide your purpose: write what you want, accepting that sales might be in second place, or write what you can sell (not what someone else can sell because those aren't the same thing at all)), then build up your image around that so that people come back to you for that thing you're doing your best to sell.

Your purpose really does put everything in its place. That doesn't mean you can't maximize as you go down the list from primary purpose to secondary.... Or that your purpose as a writer might be different from your purpose as a publisher. (You really do have two jobs/businesses to consider as a self-publisher, sometimes many more.)

If your purpose is to write books that might be picked up by a school or library, you need to build a brand around that, and so you won't wait until you're seeing sales, you'll want to go in with a brand that fits what they'll want and decide how to make that work. You'll pick what to write based on this purpose and sales will naturally have to come second even if you want to maximize them.

You can't really brand yourself however you want without making those choices about purpose for yourself, even unintentionally.

It's just a series of choices. The brand follows that first choice, which is your purpose.
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