Because of the way e-books work (no storage costs, no shelfing, no couriers etc) the contractual arrangement gives something like 25 per cent of the sale price to the author for a Kindle, more like 12 per cent of the sale price for a hard copy book.īut you will spot the important term there is `sale price’.
The answer to your question feels therefore counterintuitive: in theory, buying a Kindle version of a book gives the biggest cut to the author. I share your sense of foreboding: a corporate leviathan like Amazon looms over so much of our lives (including this website, as you point out), it feels intimidating, unaccountable and utterly disinterested in the individual, instead focussed on the crowd/mass/cohort. In this age when we face of blizzard of temptations for our attention, that you read my book is honour itself. Thank you again for your candour and engagement. And I guess that is what The Trigger was about: recognising this teenager created a storm yet being forced to triangulate him using place, time, resonance with events that would also take place in the same space. A child's hand might ball into a disappointed fist when trying to touch a cloud but that does not stop the cloud from being able to create a storm. For that I am sorry - no writer wishes to disappoint.īut that is precisely what got my curiosity up. Those looking for a conventional biography framed through conventional historiography will, like you, be disappointed by The Trigger. He ghosts into all of our lives yet he left no body of conventional historical evidence, no corpus of writing, no speeches, no diaries, no correspondence, no minutes, no artwork, no photographs. Princip is a remarkable historical figure, one with enormous impact yet with precious little definition. I liked your review for two reasons: first, it was an honest appraisal and second, it got me thinking.
No book works for every reader and clearly mine did not work for you. Liam - no need to qualify your review of my book The Trigger.
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