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valyrfia · 5 days
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another carlos gifted win another month of hell of carlos anons in my inbox telling me charles is washed even though he fought up from p4 to within DRS and was given team orders to hold position and all carlos did was drive as he was supposed to and inherit p1 from max’s DNF
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demonicseries · 5 months
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I can't believe Loki confessed his feeling then went to gay supertime
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goddess-in-training · 11 months
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Oh my God, no 🙃
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So far we have
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Matty Healy is on stage with phoebe
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thebibliosphere · 2 years
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Not to dredge the Audible discourse up again, but I said I'd come back when I had more numbers, and this post is specifically aimed at the people still trying to claim in my inbox that 'Scribd pays authors better than Audible' and giving me shit for using Audible as an author.
So here we go. This is what I earn per 1 book via Audible purchase vs. Audible subscription:
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Image ID: a screenshot from ACX, the Audible portal for authors. The text is broken up into boxes. Running from left to right, it reads Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites (Unabridged) by Joy Demorra. The sales region shown is the UK, and my royalty rate is Audible's standard of 25%. The number of units sold is 1. The amount the person paid is $25.59. My earnings from this sale is $6.40.
The following image is the same data but taken from Audible credits. The quality "sold" is 1, at a rate of $12.84, giving me a payment of $3.21. The next few numbers denote zero, showing no returns, making my earnings from Audible credit for this region $3.21. /End ID.
And this is what I earned from Scribd (sorry it's so small, I don't know if anyone will be able to read it):
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Image ID: Another screenshot from the FindAwayVoices portal shows my royalty earnings from Scribd across three regions.
From top to bottom, it shows the number of sales for Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, followed by a series of ID numbers. It also shows three individual sales from Sweden, Bulgaria, and the UK. The individuals have paid the equivalent of $19.99 in subscription fees. Out of that $19.99, Scribd pays me $1.21, and then FindawayVoices subtracts a further 0.24cents as a distribution fee leaving me with a total income of 0.97cents per book read. /End ID.
Now, I am aware that the Scribd subscription fee allows customers to listen to multiple things for the cost of their monthly fee without forcing them to return it the way Audible does. This means the author isn't subjected to negative income which is a good thing. And if that works for you, great. I'm happy for you. I am glad you have found a way to enjoy media that still pays authors something.
But can people who don't have a clue how the industry works please stop making unfounded claims that Scribd is 'better' and 'more ethical than Amazon' and 'actually pays authors' because, as you can see from the above, that's a crock of shit.
I'm not saying this to shame anyone. I'm not trying to guilt anyone for using Scribd services. Again, if it is something that works for you and you can afford it, great. Please keep using it. I would rather earn 97cents than nothing. But I am sick and tired of people who don't work the industry telling authors we have 'better options than Audible' then listing places like Scribd, seemingly operating on the belief that just because it isn't Amazon, it's inherently better.
My inbox is a nightmare of people telling me I deserve to have my work stolen for using Amazon at all, and I don't know how people can say things like that without realizing they're also the villain.
And just for the people saying it's illegal for Amazon to take refunds from the authors and leave us with negative income and we're all lying:
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ID: another screenshot from ACX, the Audible portal for authors. The text is broken up into boxes. Running from left to right, it reads Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites (Unabridged) by Joy Demorra. The sales region shown is the UK, and my royalty rate is Audible's standard of 25%. There are no individual outright sales, but there is a negative credit indicating a return, with the subscription fee shown as -$13.31 (note: this is MORE than what Amazon charges for a sale ($12.84)) with a negative royalty rate of -$3.33 for the author, which is also 12 cents MORE than what we earn for a non-returned sale.
There is some debate over why this is, but the most prevalent idea at the moment is that this is Amazon factoring in the exchange rate, and making authors pay it. So not only are we paying for the return and making a negative income, but we're also paying the cost of the exchange rate. 🙃🙃🙃
And people are wondering why authors are screaming about booktok "hacks" that promote returning books even if you enjoyed them and begging people to use libraries instead. And just in case you want to see those figures:
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Image ID: Another screenshot from the FindAwayVoices shows Library transaction details. The library paid $29.99 for the lending license, earning me a royalty fee of $13.50. FindAwayVoices took a further fee of $2.70 for distribution, making my total income from a single library transaction $10.80. /End ID.
With that single library transaction, I have earned more than what I made from 5 separate sales from both Amazon and Scribd combined. And I will continue to earn royalties from the library lending service. Not much. It will probably be about a dollar max depending on the country and exchange rate. BUT--that's a dollar I am making that YOU don't have to pay for. This is why library lending services are so essential and why authors are begging readers/listeners to use services like OverDrive and Libby instead of abusing Amazon return policies.
Libraries pay us. And the more people request our books and check them out, the more likely they will be to keep buying our stuff and keep us in their catalog.
So please, please, please, support your local libraries and also stop harassing creators for using multiple platforms to sell our work. Most of us are making a pittance from our work. We don't need people who don't understand how rigged the system is against us lecturing us about how it's our fault because of where we are forced to sell just to try and make a living. 😔
Anyway, support authors direct where you can. Support your local libraries. Stop being a dick to creators, etc.
I'm going to go scream into a pillow for a bit then get back to work.
Edit: sorry for the weird formatting. I have no idea how that happened. I couldn't see the excess text until it posted.
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100blocks-archived · 11 months
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in hindsight squidcraft was so cruel because why did they give us a glimpse of a perfect alternate universe where everyone is nice to each other and then threw us back into hell and made in burn even more
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whatbigotspost · 4 months
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Today in US fascism watch, we’ve reached holy fucking shit levels
Reenactment of me after listening
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I’m not that same fool from 2015 who thought he’d honestly never be elected. Knowing what 45 would do as 47 makes me sick to my stomach.
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My partner and I can't get legally married or else he'll lose his SSI. . . The USA is a hellscape and I kind of just need to shout that into the void for a minute.
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jjadmanii · 5 months
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ship edits about snow and lucy, “i could fix him” posts, comparisons to everlark???, i knew ppl did not develop an ounce of working braincells from the ‘team gale’ days…..
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Propaganda
Komahina
Komahina submitters win the award of having the most disgusting character hate submitted to me! Beyond that, Komahina shippers show a dislike for how popular the ship is, thinking Hinanami specifically has more canon potential, believing shippers to ignore Hajime's problems while fetishizing Komaeda's, believe it to be boring, a hatred for Komaeda, and making both characters ooc.
Naegami
Naegami submitters how a dislike for Togami and find Naegi and Togami to be a much more bland pairing in comparison to other protag antag ships. Believing it to be mediocre bait and rather boring.
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justjensenanddean · 1 year
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Beau Arlen and Jenny Hoyt | Big Sky 3x11 “Super Foxes”
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada​
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Wasn't... Wasn't it the supreme court who ruled that police aren't obligated to protect anyone?
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sntg · 27 days
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if you had told me 10 years ago that larsa pippen, kesha and lady gaga would eventually morph into one person i would have laughed hysterically but here we are
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When will the majority of Americans realize that our country is one of the most parasitic and blood-soaked empires in history, that it’s very bones are those of the indigenous people and of slaves, and that the lifeblood that has sustained it is that of innocent people from other countries, who it terrorizes without impunity because they cannot take action against a distant leviathan entity with hoarded resources at its disposal? That it deliberately sows discord among its own people so that it can scapegoat and exploit those of us who it has deemed Undesirable and Undeserving of said hoarded resources? That its hold over media output deliberately reinforces the idea of Americans as the Everyman and everyone else as the Other, that the suffering of millions of people, yes, actual flesh-and-blood people around the world is a direct result of our egocentric nationalism and complacency?
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thebibliosphere · 1 year
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Crippling migraine the night before my Covid shot. Excellent 🙃🙃🙃
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