Reading Romances discussion

a friend of mine was trying to lend this book to me bit it said it couldn't be lent in the US. is anyone else having this problem? is there anyone who can lend this to me? I am dying to read this!!!

If you're that anxious to read it, maybe you should buy it. And make the author happy, too.

I know I should, but my friend and I share a lot BC we read so much it helps each other.

Is it legal to share all those books? Ebooks? Pirate sites and illegal shares hurt authors. I know people think we make fortunes on books, but it's not true. That book you buy for $2.99 doesn't give much back to the author.

we use amazon kindle. you can only lend the ones they allow. some you can and some you can't. I believe the author is the one that has to restrict it.

THe author doesn't have the option to restrict lending on books priced over a certain level. The author has little say over many things with Amazon.

As to authors having control over the lending of their Kindle book versions, I've always had it appear as a check box on the rights and pricing tab when publishing a book via Amazon directly. I've had that for all of my books so far.

If some authors don't have that option, it may because they're going through a publisher who will upload to Amazon for them, or through an aggregator service, such as Smashwords, where I don't know if they enable that option for authors (I've never tried distribution from Smashwords to Amazon as I publish direct to Amazon).

It has to do with price, Xavier. If your price is $2.99 or higher, then you can't control lending. Just raise your price and you'll see.

I just triple checked against my $2.99 and $4.99 titles, and it is automatically selected for the higher royalty percentage (i.e. you can't opt out), and it is voluntary for the lower royalty percentage, so it comes down to the royalty percentage (which only becomes selectable at certain price points).

Are you able to point me to something which indicates that it is tied to price, and not royalty?

Royalty is tied to price. You can't get 70% royalty unless you select a price at $2.99 or above. Automatice royalty for under $2.99 is 35% and that's how it's connected to price.