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How Do I Get My Book Published on Amazon.com?

Kelly Abbott | April 5, 2010 - 8:32 am

This is a short, quick post about how to get your book published independently on Amazon.com. Amazon does a poor job of explaining this and in my research there did not seem to be a consensus answer for this one simple question:

How do I get my book published on Amazon.com?

There are three ways.

  1. Createspace
  2. Digital Text Platform
  3. Advantage

Here are their key differences:

Createspace is the “atoms and bits” solution to getting your creative works for sale on Amazon.com. Caters to books, music and film.

Digital Text Platform is the Kindle channel only. If you want your book on the Kindle and that’s all you care about, use DTP.

Amazon Advantage is the place where a publisher would go to selling and distributing their physical books on Amazon.com – you can ship from your own warehouse and ship them a palette of books to ship for you.

In all solutions, you as the publisher set the price, but Amazon takes 45% of the retail price.

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Amazon Data Transfer Rates Lowered

Kelly Abbott | February 2, 2010 - 2:03 pm

Amazon sent us an early valentine’s day letter this morning:

Dear AWS Customer,
As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions. These changes are effective February 1, 2010.
The new outbound data transfer pricing will be:
First 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB
Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use content delivery service, continues to have its own outbound data transfer pricing schedule in order to offer the lowest possible rates for each edge location. Effective February 1, Amazon CloudFront will also reduce its outbound data transfer prices by $0.02 per GB across all edge locations and for each usage tier.
Please see the pricing section for any of the AWS infrastructure services on the AWS website for more information. Thank you, as always, for your support.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team

Dear AWS Customer,

As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions. These changes are effective February 1, 2010.

The new outbound data transfer pricing will be:

  • First 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
  • Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
  • Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
  • Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB

Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use content delivery service, continues to have its own outbound data transfer pricing schedule in order to offer the lowest possible rates for each edge location. Effective February 1, Amazon CloudFront will also reduce its outbound data transfer prices by $0.02 per GB across all edge locations and for each usage tier.

…yadda, yadda, yadda….

Sincerely,

The Amazon Web Services Team

Further proof that you can count on the cloud to keep getting cheaper.

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Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker

Kelly Abbott | September 22, 2009 - 12:47 pm

It takes me about a month to read any given edition of the New Yorker. Given that it’s a weekly periodical, there is no satisfaction in “completing” an issue. Instead of turning the final page and throwing it in the recycle bin, I find them stacking in the nooks of my house and work wherever they happen to be when I finish a particular passage. While there are a few parts of each new yorker I don’t particularly care for (original short fiction, for example) I find myself engrossed in just about everything the editors there have for me to ponder. Unlike Wired Magazine, which is so closely related to the work we do at 3ones, The New Yorker is a respite from the daily grind here and, as such, rarely reminds me of what I should be doing with my time other than enjoying a really good, relaxing read. That is, until today. I stumbled upon a month-old article on the Kindle. It’s a critique of sorts on the trajectory of word-loving. But more than that, it’s a researched treatise on modern day product development. It has insights for geeks and PM’s alike. And it proves an excellent touchstone for product developers who want to change, break from, and/or revolutionize time-honored traditions. I won’t spoil the article by telling you its conclusion. It rewards the effort of diving in and not coming up until you’re done. But I will say this:

There’s a fine line between loving and killing a thing.

Enjoy Kindle and the future of reading.

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Amazon Web Services Start-Up Event – This Wednesday at SDSU Aztec Athletic Center

Kelly Abbott | March 16, 2009 - 2:19 pm

Jon’s going to be speaking at an Amazon-sponsored event this week about our many uses of their excellent Web services. 

The official event notice and sign-up is here. 

Event details are listed below. We hope to see you there.

 

We look forward to seeing you at The AWS Start-up Event – San Diego, Wednesday, March 18, 2-7pm. The event will be held at the SDSU, Aztec Athletic Center, The Hall of Champions Auditorium.

Directions/ Parking:

If you are coming from Los Angeles: take I-5 South to 805 South to I-8 East.  If you are coming from Riverside County: take I-15 South to I-8 East.  

From I-8, take the College Avenue exit and go South. Turn right at Montezuma (second stop light at the top of the hill). Go to the second stop light on Montezuma (55th Street) and turn right. You will turn onto 55th Street and the parking structure (PS# 5) entrance will be your first left at the light.  Make an immediate left at the first stop light into the parking structure.  

To find the Aztec Athletic Center, exit the parking structure onto 55th Street street, walk North approximately 500 feet past the Alumni Building construction site and the SDSU Athletic Center will be on your left hand side (across from Cox Arena). Enter the building and you will see our registration desk and signs for the AWS Start-Up Event outside The Hall of Champions Auditorium.

 

Event Agenda:

 

1:00-2:00   Doors Open

2:00-3:00    AWS Presentation by Mike Culver, AWS Evangelist  

3:00-3:30    Peter Shaw, Principal, Shaw Management Advisors

3:30-3:45    Break

3:45-3:55    Steve Bjorg, Co-Founder and CTO, MindTouch

3:55-4:05    Chuck Phillips, Director of Technology, Digitaria

4:05-4:15    Jon Gallagher, VP Technology, 3ones

4:15-4:25    David Boland, AdJack, Founder & CEO

4:25-4:45    Customer Q&A

4:45-5:00    Closing Statements by Mike Culver

5:00-7:00    Cocktail & Networking Reception

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