Prakash’s Comments (group member since Apr 08, 2017)

Prakash’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Thanks Kay and Erica!
It was a wonderful experience for me.

Congratulations Carole.

Hello everyone!
Though I am not competent with event hosting yet I am willing to spread 'words of mouth' through my social media and newsletter.
If you allow, I would be be happy to participate in this event.

There are many useful blogs and free courses on Reedsy.

Congratulations Amy, Anna, Angel and Jean!

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Shame on GR and Amazon for their dirty tricks. These guys are making everything mess of unfair practices. And, not only that, they are encouraging indie authors.
It's sad to know it happened with Carole who never post anything offensive, rather she shares her experience with all of us and keeps us high.
I support to you, Carole. Please don't give up what good you are doing.

Yes, I do it. I have done it and I will do it.
Why?
1. It helps me to understand what went wrong or why reader felt disappointed. It provides opportunities for improvement.
2. If I find it bullying, I leave it.
(I) Someone rated my book 3 star. I checked and found that he did not buy the book. He told someone provided him pdf. When I asked 'WHO' then he deleted the ranking and never bothered to reply. Before doing that, he trolled me. :)
(II) When I got 1 star rating and worst ever review, I checked and found that fellow had read 34 pages (including 10 - 12 pages of front and back matter) out of 157 pages.
(III) I have got many valuable suggestions through interactions which I implemented and improved my skills. Though I am still far away perfection. :)
I appreciate the readers to spent their time in writing reviews and participation in discussion.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Enjoy your holidays with peace and joy.

Hi Carmel!
KDP and Createspace both are owned by Amazon. For ebooks, Createspace uses KDP but KDP provides both the options - paperback and ebook. Payment of royalties comes separately from KDP and Createspace. Sometimes they state the threshold amount and you may feel stuck. So, KDP is better.
If you are not pro or don't have so many books, choose KDP select which is subjected to renewal after that period. The benefit is that you will paid for KENP read from KDP global fund. After 90 days, if you think you may try other options too, you may choose Draft2Digital, Ingram Spark, Smashwords, etc.
If you are not satisfied with other publishing platforms, you may come back to KDP select but when you are in KDP select, you can't publish anywhere else.
Formatting guides are there. Though formatting for Smashwords is tough, As Amy told you, but it's not impossible. I may help if anyone needed (I owe to this community because I learnt a lot from here).

Hi Kay!
I think you already have great suggestions.
I appreciate Anita for nice advice and further one more thing I want to suggest that you may try changing font color of the title, to make it clearly readable at first sight.

Hello everyone!
I am open to help fellow Indie authors. If anyone wish to get a shout out, interview, guest post on my blog, feel free to contact me at -
prakash2484@gmail.com

Dale wrote: "Prakash wrote: "Hi everyone there!
One more thing I noticed. If you compare the sales chart on "sales dashboard" and sales reported in "month to date" on KDP on day to day basis till the end of the..."

I have checked thoroughly and then I reported the matter to Amazon, they simply deleted 4 units from the chart and asked me to provide screenshot. LOL

Hi everyone there!
One more thing I noticed. If you compare the sales chart on "sales dashboard" and sales reported in "month to date" on KDP on day to day basis till the end of the month, there is difference up to 4 copies. It happened to me in September and despite of several emails, I couldn't get any satisfactory reply from Amazon.

Hi everyone!
I am a blogger, reviewer and Indie author.
I post author interviews too on my blog-
www.pvsharmablog.wordpress.com

Thanks Carole!

Hi everyone there!
Hope you are doing great. May I help you by any means?
Actually, I was busy in my book release and promo. Missed you all!

Thanks a lot, Ben!
I have shared everywhere.

Hi all!
A very scary article on paid promo

https://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2...

Thanks for your sincere efforts!