Kindle Unlimited and Everything Else

[Rainy_TX]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hey everyone! I know that someone posted a thread a while back about Kindle Unlimited, but I wanted to see how everyone is doing these days in light of the $$ paid for each KU download is decreasing. I went from a 5k+ monthly income from last year to about $500... thankfully designing book covers have saved my bacon!<br /> <br /> I know that it&#039;s not fastlane to depend on one particular thing (amazon) so I&#039;ve been tossing around some ideas for a website that publishes romance/new adult/soft erotica since Amazon has been kicking a lot off. My problem is that I&#039;m a writer and a pretty decent graphic designer... not a coder and have no start up capital for it... right now. So I&#039;m working on finding a programmer that might want to partner with me or perhaps trade services for services. Anyway, that&#039;s what I have going on. How about you guys?</div>

 

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[Held for Ransom]

<div class="bbWrapper"><a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/11403/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="11403" data-username="@Rainy_TX">@Rainy_TX</a>. I&#039;m still writing and still doing well. If you were able to make $5,000, you could make $10,000... $20,000, who knows? Though it&#039;s more difficult today than in years past, it&#039;s still achievable.</div>

 

[Andrew Ward]

<div class="bbWrapper">Programmers get equity requests for development all the time. Typically it will be taken as an insult to ask.<br /> <br /> The way around this is to put something into the equation that has high perceived value to your potential partner. For example let&#039;s say you have written a whole novel to publish through your platform and some indication of the market demand for it. This way going in to partnership looks more attractive.<br /> <br /> If you do go into a 50/50 partnership and set up a company then make sure you put a shareholders agreement into place.<br /> <br /> My view though: there is more value in your content than the website coding. It sounds like the coding you are after is a fairly common thing and it is actually the content that is your USP.<br /> <br /> Check out themeforest.net . You may be able to find a theme that has been built to do what you want already. If you do then get some hosting, buy a domain, and pay someone to install it for you and be available for ad-hoc support if you need it (this shouldn&#039;t be too expensive, it is under an hours work, maybe two with the support time). <br /> <br /> As long as you don&#039;t mind having to play around with setting it up yourself (you shouldn&#039;t need to code anything) then you are ready to roll.<br /> <br /> Make sure the theme does what you want before you buy and install it though. Extending or changing features is where it becomes more expensive as you will need a dev to re-write how bits are done and it may not be as simple as you may think.<br /> <br /> Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk</div>

 

[Rainy_TX]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 15462" data-quote="Held for Ransom" data-source="post: 504216" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=504216" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-504216">Held for Ransom said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> If you were able to make $5,000, you could make $10,000... $20,000, who knows? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Hey Held for Ransom! Hope you are doing well! Yeah, I know if I made X before, I can do even more. <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></div>

 

[Held for Ransom]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 11403" data-quote="Rainy_TX" data-source="post: 504545" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=504545" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-504545">Rainy_TX said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Yeah, I know if I made X before, I can do even more. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>I&#039;m good Rainy, thanks. <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Is there a reason you aren&#039;t?</div>

 

[Rainy_TX]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 15462" data-quote="Held for Ransom" data-source="post: 504593" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=504593" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-504593">Held for Ransom said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Is there a reason you aren&#039;t? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> lol. How I&#039;ve missed you! <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> I could blame a million things, but truth be known, I know it&#039;s simply a matter of me standing in my own way.</div>

 

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[Held for Ransom]

<div class="bbWrapper">It happens to everyone. Have you moved on from self-publishing?</div>

 

[Rainy_TX]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 15462" data-quote="Held for Ransom" data-source="post: 504598" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=504598" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-504598">Held for Ransom said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> It happens to everyone. Have you moved on from self-publishing? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> No, not exactly. I have about 24 titles out, but I found that I like designing covers. Been doing decent at it until the other day where I stumbles upon THE forum to market my services. I&#039;ve sold 18 custom cover designs since then! I am even looking at hiring a freelancer to help me with the designs so I can keep up. lol Perhaps I&#039;ll be up to that 6k again soon... and beyond. <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> (Proving you right, once again) <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></div>

 

[Held for Ransom]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 11403" data-quote="Rainy_TX" data-source="post: 504886" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=504886" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-504886">Rainy_TX said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I&#039;ve sold 18 custom cover designs since then! I am even looking at hiring a freelancer to help me with the designs so I can keep up. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>That&#039;s great to hear. I don&#039;t know where I&#039;d be without my cover designer. I&#039;d pay three times what she charges, maybe more.</div>

 

[GiroudJD]

<div class="bbWrapper">KU has certainly killed a lot of people&#039;s incomes. Shorts are no longer lucrative like they were. It&#039;s all about novels these days. So unless you go wide, it&#039;s better to try and write longer works.</div>

 

[Rawr]

<div class="bbWrapper">Rainy did you advertise on Kboards? People look for covers there all the time.<br /> <br /> KU slashed my income in half I&#039;d venture to say. But the basics are still there. I&#039;m adjusting and going to break my previous record.</div>

 

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