Comments for A Bigger Play http://abiggerplay.com So that Your Ideas Circulate, Your Impact Builds, Your Tribe Grows, & Your Business Soars Tue, 03 May 2011 21:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Is bookbaby.com the right choice for your ebook? by Chris Robley http://abiggerplay.com/is-bookbaby-com-the-right-choice-for-your-ebook#comment-18 Chris Robley Tue, 03 May 2011 21:52:22 +0000 http://abiggerplay.com/?p=96#comment-18 Hey Anne, Thanks for the generous coverage of BookBaby. We're very proud of this new CD Baby brand and hope to be able to open the same kinds of doors for authors as we've done in the past for musicians. Just had a few comments. First, in regards to helping writers who want to sell paperback editions, we do plan on launching a print-on-demand service sometime within the next three months. I don't have a specific date yet, but things are coming together quickly and the quality of the POD books is pretty impressive. Second, anyone can sign up an Author Central account with Amazon, even if another company like BookBaby is distributing your work to Amazon/Kindle. Details here: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/help?topicID=200620850 We just recommend that they use the same email on their Author Central account as we have on file because Amazon may contact us to verify the author's identity. Lastly, to clarify one thing in our Terms of Service, while we are non-exclusive, we DO ask that you NOT have two different distributors delivering the same book content to the same retailer. So while you may use BookBaby to get your eBook into any or all of our individual eBook retail partner's stores, we just don't want to get a phone call from Apple saying "Hey, what's the deal? Suzie Q's new book HOW TO BE A BETTER SUZIE Q is in our iBookstore twice! Once from you guys and once from distributor X. Who do we pay?" So that language is in the ToS to avoid this kind of accounting confusion. But you're more than welcome to use BookBaby for some of the retailers, use another distributor for others, or even continue managing your Amazon account yourself. Hope that helps clarify a few things. Again, thanks for mentioning BookBaby on your blog, and if you have any questions, lemme know. Chris Robley BookBaby Marketing Coordinator books@bookbaby.com Hey Anne,

Thanks for the generous coverage of BookBaby. We’re very proud of this new CD Baby brand and hope to be able to open the same kinds of doors for authors as we’ve done in the past for musicians.

Just had a few comments. First, in regards to helping writers who want to sell paperback editions, we do plan on launching a print-on-demand service sometime within the next three months. I don’t have a specific date yet, but things are coming together quickly and the quality of the POD books is pretty impressive.

Second, anyone can sign up an Author Central account with Amazon, even if another company like BookBaby is distributing your work to Amazon/Kindle. Details here: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/help?topicID=200620850

We just recommend that they use the same email on their Author Central account as we have on file because Amazon may contact us to verify the author’s identity.

Lastly, to clarify one thing in our Terms of Service, while we are non-exclusive, we DO ask that you NOT have two different distributors delivering the same book content to the same retailer. So while you may use BookBaby to get your eBook into any or all of our individual eBook retail partner’s stores, we just don’t want to get a phone call from Apple saying “Hey, what’s the deal? Suzie Q’s new book HOW TO BE A BETTER SUZIE Q is in our iBookstore twice! Once from you guys and once from distributor X. Who do we pay?”

So that language is in the ToS to avoid this kind of accounting confusion. But you’re more than welcome to use BookBaby for some of the retailers, use another distributor for others, or even continue managing your Amazon account yourself.

Hope that helps clarify a few things. Again, thanks for mentioning BookBaby on your blog, and if you have any questions, lemme know.

Chris Robley
BookBaby Marketing Coordinator

books@bookbaby.com

]]> Comment on What Would You Do? by Rebecca http://abiggerplay.com/what-would-you-do#comment-13 Rebecca Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:35:02 +0000 http://abiggerplay.com/?p=205#comment-13 I love this post, Anne. And I loved watching these two young men, who have such self-awareness and talent. Really inspiring. I love this post, Anne. And I loved watching these two young men, who have such self-awareness and talent. Really inspiring.

]]> Comment on Whither Twitter by gene http://abiggerplay.com/whither-twitter#comment-2 gene Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:48:35 +0000 http://abiggerplay.com/?p=69#comment-2 Hi Anne; your observations help me better understand some of the uses of "tweeting". In addition to replacing Tweetie Bird, a cartoon character from a few generations ago, it appears that "tweet" will be in our lexicon of language for awhile. When I observe folks "tweeting" or doing some rapid finger movement over their digital devices I can't help but think how they, the devices, look like 21st century prayer tablets, and those doing the digitization look like they are praying. Talk to you soon; one who has decided to retreat, rather than re-tweet! Hi Anne; your observations help me better understand some of the uses of “tweeting”. In addition to replacing Tweetie Bird, a cartoon character from a few generations ago, it appears that “tweet” will be in our lexicon of language for awhile. When I observe folks “tweeting” or doing some rapid finger movement over their digital devices I can’t help but think how they, the devices, look like 21st century prayer tablets, and those doing the digitization look like they are praying.
Talk to you soon;
one who has decided to retreat, rather than re-tweet!

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