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⌈ Secret Post #5114 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

He's also selling books in numerous countries all over the world, unlike people writing pulp fiction on Amazon (that's really a factor, the scale is totally different, frankly speaking his career is in no way comparable to your typical amazon writer), and he still has other sources of revenue than writing.

[(Anonymous)]

(CWA- slightly baffled)

Man, this is an assumption. A majorly wrong assumption.

All my ebooks are international. All of them. I get higher royalties if I make them that way. My paperbacks, those are USA only. The average Amazon Author though isn't making any money off of paperbacks b/c you have to price them insanely high for POD. In fact, a lot of pulp amazon writers don't even OFFER paperbacks.

I sell books in Canada, Japan, India, Germany, France... and sometimes America. I don't know why you think if an Amazon author is ONLY selling in the US. It is more likely they are actually selling ebooks in MORE countries than NG b/c they don't have to rely on an agent to negotiate the rights to those countries, it's just a checkbox click.

NG is going to have more books translated into different languages. I'll give you that, which would make them more accessible if someone doesn't read English. But more countries? Err... not really.

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AYRT

I don't assume that you - or anyone else - selling ebooks in English on Amazon is selling only to customers in English-speaking countries, I am not a native English speaker myself and I buy books in English on Amazon (when I can't avoid it), so yes, I am aware that it happens, obviously :D

But still, being translated into a foreign language does give you a larger audience in that language - isn't it also pretty obvious? You also get much more of a promotional push (as compared to no promotion when your work is not available in the local language). So your sales in, let's say, Germany and Gaiman's sales in Germany of his works, actually translated in German, are not comparable. How is that me making assumptions about you...? That's just a totally different scale of book sales and totally wider target customer base?

(Not to mention being translated into dozens of foreign languages makes your sales cycle last longer for a single book...? Gaiman's last book came out in 2017 in English, but various translations of it have been coming out till 2019.)