> On 6/26/06, Joy Nicholson <joyjnicholson at gmail.com> wrote: > > Authors these days seem to often encourage people to buy from local > > booksellers or non-Amazon online stores, saying that Amazon eats more > > of their (the author's) royalties than other venues do. On 6/26/06, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote: > This is the first I've heard of this. I know of authors who feel > understandably uncomfortable with Amazon's policy of advertising > cheaper, used copies of a book on the same page as new copies, and > I've heard from other authors that books sold through Amazon get > marked up substantially; but I've never heard any suggestion that > author's royalties get marked down. > A quick google (Amazon royalties) suggests that the large difference in royalties is being seen by authors who are using POD (Print On Demand) systems ( lulu.com is specified ). Since /Dzur/ is not a POD book, I don't think this issue is relevent to SKZB. Unless of course there is something else I didn't notice (the google effort was rather brief).