Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Finally we have got the last of the scrap metal out of the garden and the last of the middle of the garden piles of wood. Three years? Has it been that long? Anyway, done now.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll be a how to/tutorial, step by step .... to make something.

That's cool, but you will make much more money selling at $2.99 than $0.99. Trust me on this, the increase in price actually increases sales... and anything under $2.99 gets a royalty of 35% compared to 70%.

My experience of short tutorials on kindle is they are deceptive. You sell say 2 copies a month in the usa, 1 in the uk. Doesn't look like good money.

But,over the course of a year, at the higher royalty, 2*2*12 =$48, for maybe 3 hours work. Then you collect them into larger volumes, add in the fact you are still earning the second year...

You end up earning a decent income from it, but because it comes in dribbles it doesn't look like you are (and divide the above figures by six if doing it at 99 cents)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Finally we have got the last of the scrap metal out of the garden and the last of the middle of the garden piles of wood. Three years? Has it been that long? Anyway, done now.

Lucky you didn't need a Dig Licence "in case".
Did you find anything interesting?

tomterm8

There is no 'low section,' amazon discriminates against books lower than $2.99.

PasturesNew

Don't you hate the huge cloud of steam that bursts forth from the oven when you open it...? I've got the hang of it now - and I reach out and fling the door open, so I'm out of the way, then the door swings back closed and it's then that I wrestle with the door, cloth and bakeware to extract the hot goodness..... just had 1Kg of spuds I bought, reduced, 2 weeks ago - that needed using up before they grew legs..... so I sliced them and am cooking them up now, to be nuked tomorrow with a pie (Mr S had my favourite pies at 2 for £2, which is my "buying price") .... been waiting to have one of these for weeks, but refuse to pay full price even for my favourite things.

It was to have been pie night tonight, but I got that curry and that had to be used up really.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

There is no 'low section,' amazon discriminates against books lower than $2.99.

So is amazon different to amazon uk in that?

I always check out books under 2.99 ( and the fre best sellers). Hey...I might be reading e books now, but still don't want to pay much for them( and still prefer real ones)

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Finally we have got the last of the scrap metal out of the garden and the last of the middle of the garden piles of wood. Three years? Has it been that long? Anyway, done now.

Wow, that is an achievement; it's taken us a decade, and every time one bit of junk goes away another ends up in its place.

I am a minimalist at heart but live with maximalists and they win

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lucky you didn't need a Dig Licence "in case".
Did you find anything interesting?

Not this time, it was a pile we had made in the first month of buying, but hadn't been able to clear yet. Originally we found a very old driving bit, and more baler twine than I knew had ever been made, and lots of barbed wire. The original 'fence' was made of corrugated iron, barbed wire ( lots of which ran underground ) and various bits of rubbish. One couldn't see it because of the trees that were there. But we had to replace within 28 days of purchase and tbh had we known how bad it was underground there we would have asked for 3 months.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

So is amazon different to amazon uk in that?

I always check out books under 2.99 ( and the fre best sellers). Hey...I might be reading e books now, but still don't want to pay much for them( and still prefer real ones)

No, that section exists, and people do shop there, but it is v. Hard to get your book into it at a decent, noticable level, if you are nonfiction. Most people get to nonfiction by typing something into the search engine.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Wow, that is an achievement; it's taken us a decade, and every time one bit of junk goes away another ends up in its place.

I am a minimalist at heart but live with maximalists and they win

Heheehe. It's actually just gone in another area of scrap metal, but now we have it all together and away from the house area we can get it collected. Before it was not ok to do that. Now we have finally made it so.

We still have loads and loads of wood to use. It's all leylandi and not great for the woodburner, but there is so darn much of it. Getting righ of the last pile that was way from an edge though feels like a real landmark!

The good thing is of course, that at least it gets lighter as it seasons! First year moving t was - heavy and sticky job.