Its the allnew KILLER Clearance Sale Secrets. Its everything that has guided me to 52 successful clearance sales that have raised hundreds of thousands of. Free Full Version Of Dvdfab. Shinzo Abe In Gujarat LIVE After Bullet Train Foundation, PM Narendra Modi, Japanese PM Sign Agreements. The Pros and Cons of Amazons New Crowdsourced Publishing Program Victoria Strauss, Author of Fiction for Adults and Young Adults. Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware. Yesterday, Amazons brand new crowdsourced publishing program, Kindle Scout, opened for voting by the public. The concept is pretty simple. Kindle Scout is reader powered publishing for new, never before published books. Its a place where readers help decide if a book gets published. Selected books will be published by Kindle Press and receive 5 year renewable terms, a 1,5. Book royalty rate, easy rights reversions and featured Amazon marketing. Authors can submit their full manuscripts of 5. Kindle Scout website for a 3. Readers can then browse books and nominate their favorites. If a manuscript theyve voted for gets published, they receive a free ebook. Things authors should note. Amazon provides no editing, copy editing, proofreading, or cover artillustration. Your book will be published exactly as you submit it. Submissions are exclusive for 4. No shopping your ms. Submitted manuscripts must meet content and eligiblity guidelines. Currently, only Romance, Mystery and Thriller, and SFFantasy are eligible. Crowdsourcing Not so much. Authors are encouraged to mobilize their networks for voting which kind of undermines the notion that manuscripts will rise to the top on merit a perennial problem of crowdsourced ventures, along with the potential for gaming the system. Mere vote numbers, however, dont determine what gets published. Per the FAQ, Nominations give us an idea of which books readers think are great the rest is up to the Kindle Scout team who then reviews books for potential publication. If youre attracted by the promise of featured Amazon marketing, heres what it actually consists of Kindle Press books will be enrolled and earn royalties for participation in the Kindle Owners Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited as well as be eligible for targeted email campaigns and promotions. Key word here eligible. In other words, no promises. If youre not selected for publication, you must request removal of your work from the Kindle Scout site. Otherwise, your campaign page will remain online. By submitting, you agree in advance to the terms of the Kindle Press publishing agreement. These terms are not negotiable. So before you submit, be sure youre comfortable with them. If Amazon chooses not to publish your ms., youre automatically released. So, what about that publishing agreement Overall, its decent. The grant of rights for ebook and audio editions only though see below renews every five years, but you can request reversion at the end of any five year term if youve earned less than 2. Bullet Program Investments' title='Bullet Program Investments' />Royalties are 5. And of course, theres the 1,5. Things authors should note. The grant of rights is a bit more sweeping than it appears The grant of rights includes translation rights. If these are exercised by Amazon, your royalty drops to 2. On the plus side, if Amazon has not exercised or licensed these rights within two years, you can request that they be reverted. Amazon can license to third parties any of the rights youve granted. You get 7. 5 of net proceeds for foreign language books licensed to third parties, and 5. The grant of rights allows Amazon not just to publish andor license ebooks and audiobooks, but to create condensed, adapted, abridged, interactive and enhanced editions of your Work, and include your Work in anthology or omnibus editions. For subscription or other blended fee programs for instance, Kindle Unlimited, net revenue will be determined in accordance with the standard revenue allocation methods for that program. So be sure youre aware of what those are. Amazon may register copyright for you, but is not required to do so. As always, Amazon maintains complete discretion and control, and can make decisions and changes without telling you. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to publish, market, distribute or offer for sale your Work, or continue publishing, marketing, distributing or selling your Work after we have started doing so. We may stop publishing your Work and cease further exploitation of the rights granted in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion without notice to you. These are not sentences youll find in a typical publishing contract. So should authors rush to submit their unpublished novels On the plus side, theres the advance money up front is nice, the possibility of subrights sales, the promotional boost that published books will receive from the selection process at least while the program is new and whatever promotions Amazon may not necessarily will see above undertake for individual books. Amazons on site promotions as distinct from its email promotions, which can be spammy you havent lived until youve gotten an Amazon email promotion for your own book are incredibly powerful, and can have a huge impact on sales numbers though that effect doesnt necessarily last past the promotion itself. Its possible, also, that gaining a toehold in Amazons publishing ecosystem could eventually open the door to one of Amazon Publishings traditional imprints for some authors, at least. On the other hand, Kindle Scout seems to occupy an uneasy middle ground between publishing and self publishing, embracing characteristics of both while offering the benefits of neither. As with a traditional publisher, you must agree to an exclusive contract that takes control of certain of your rights but you dont get the editing, proofing, artwork, or any of the other financial investments that a traditional publisher would provide. As with self publishing, your book is published exactly as you submit it, with no developmental input or support but you dont have control of pricing and you receive a smaller percentage of sales proceeds than you would with KDP. For Amazon, Kindle Scout is super low risk publishing with the potential for substantial yield not just from books that prove popular but from the influx of new users to its website. For authors, its the usual dilemma does what you may gain outweigh what you dont get, and what you must give upAs always, dont rush in. Read and understand the Kindle Scout publishing agreement, and be sure youre comfortable with the other conditions to which youre agreeing by submitting your manuscript. Be realistic in your expectations not just of the possibility of publication, but of what might result if youre selected. And please dont spam your entire social network with requests for votes. UPDATE, 1. 03. 01. Amazons right to ebooks and audiobooks is exclusive, but Ive been asked whether the Kindle Scout publishing agreement would allow authors to self publish in print. The answer would appear to be yes. Heres the relevant language my emphasis All rights not expressly granted to us in this Agreement including the right to publish print editions are reserved for your sole use and disposition. Also, heres author Benjamin Sobiecks first impressions of his Kindle Scout campaign. He makes some interesting observations. UPDATE, 1. 231. Just four weeks after Kindle Scout officially launched, the first books have been selected for publication. That seems incredibly fast. I wish Amazon were more transparent about stats, so we could know how many books were submitted to the program and how many readers participated. The Bullet Socialist Project. Bullet archive 1. Send submissions to infosocialistproject. Date. Author. Title           ISSN 1. December 8, 2. 01. Quinton Ascah. Election 2. Battle Over Fightfor. The 2. 01. 8 Ontario provincial election will be fought over many issues. Liberal Kathleen Wynnes unpopularity as Premier, Progressive Conservative Party Leader Patrick Browns flip flopping on major issues, the election of Donald Trump in the United States and subsequent re evaluation of NAFTA are all certainly to come up in coverage and debates. However, one of the biggest issues that will be fought next year is a struggle that activists have been working on for years, and one which opponents believe could derail Ontarios entire economy Bill 1. The minimum wage hike, and other labour reforms in the Bill, may be the most controversial public policy issue in Ontario right now. December 6, 2. 01. Jonathan Rosenblum interviewed by Yuri Lobunov. Where to Begin Lessons from the Fight for 1. Truck Driving School Brockville there. Beyond North America. Big ideas sometimes start small. Fast food workers in New York City were the first workers to raise the banner demanding 1. Union. In late November, 2. Manhattan took to the streets for a one day walkout to demand a 1. For a city of 8 million people, it was a small protest, but for low wage workers around the country, this bold call for 1. December 5, 2. 01. Doug Allan. Healthcare Funding Falls, Again. Real provincial government healthcare funding per person has fallen again this year in Ontario, the third year in a row. Since 2. 00. 9 real funding per person has fallen 2. Across Canada real per person funding is in its fourth consecutive year of increase. Since 2. 00. 9, real provincial funding across Canada is up 8. In fact the funding gap between Ontario and Canada as a whole has gown consistently for years as set out below in current dollars. December 4, 2. 01. Luis Thielemann interviewed by Brais Fernandez Chiles Political System Shaken by Rise of New Anti Neoliberal Left. First, its clear that the result, for any observer, was a complete surprise. Although looking at it now we can see that there were many signs pointing to the possibility of a high vote for the FA, the truth is that no one believed it was possible to go into double digits. Polls showed it with about 8 support, and the history of the left in the past three decades in Chile is one in which it has never surpassed this limit. December 1, 2. 01. Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings. Neoliberalism A Useful Concept It is only over the past decade and a half or so that scholars have begun to explore in greater depth the ideological roots of the neoliberal project. Such contributions tend to focus on the emergence of a distinctly neoliberal critique of collectivism especially as expressed in the post war welfare state and the state planned economies like the Soviet Union until the end of the 1. November 2. 9, 2. James Wilt. On the Rails A Case for Renewed Leftist Infatuation with Transport. A few weeks ago, at 3 3. Manitoba government froze public transit funding to Winnipeg, equivalent to a 1. It was a quiet affair. The bill that it was contained in wasnt ever brought to committee, meaning the public werent able to formally comment on it. But weve already started to see the brutal consequences soon after, Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman announced that the city will have to cut 5. November 2. 7, 2. Max Shanly. Toward a New Model Young Labour. Following decades of neoliberalism, where a massive redistribution of wealth and power has taken place in favour of the rich, the capitalist system now finds itself in serious crisis. The preceding epoch, characterised primarily by a slavish reliance upon the financial sector itself based on uncontrolled, free flowing circulation of money has led to politics in this country being defined by submission to those with financial clout. Austerity measures are as deadly as they are unpopular. November 2. 4, 2. Andr Frappier. National Struggle and Class Struggle Complementary or Contradictory The political situation in Quebec and internationally, with the escalation of the Catalan national struggle, impels us to deepen our thinking on these issues. What role can Quebecs national liberation struggle play in class terms, in the context of the fight for emancipation of the peoples in the Canadian state The following is an attempt to address these questions. For more than forty years the national question in Quebec has been dominated by the Parti qubcois PQ. But it was not the PQ that invented nationalism, that was the product of the domination that has existed since the British Conquest and which was structurally integrated at the time of the Canadian confederation. November 2. 1, 2. Zimbabwe Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement on Military Takeover. We the undersigned civil society organizations guided by the Constitution express our concern over the political developments in Zimbabwe, today Wednesday 1. November 2. 01. 7. We call for the peaceful and constitutional resolution of the situation and the immediate return of Constitutional order and democracy in Zimbabwe. As civil society we reiterate our position that the political transition in Zimbabwe must be guided by the Constitution. November 1. 6, 2. Josep Mara Antentas interviewed by Dan La Botz. Whither Catalonia My traditional position is the defense of the right to self determination, with the idea that when a group rises to exercise this right its position must be made specific. In the current situation and since the independence movement began in 2. Yes vote has a more democratic content than the No vote, which is associated exclusively with the reactionary defense of the Constitution and the political regime. November 1. 4, 2. Joseph Mathunjwa. A Just Transition From Climate Change and Unemployment. The global economy is facing numerous structural challenges. With the looming fourth economic revolution characterized by even more technological development and mechanization, the future of productive labour is bleak. Most unskilled and semi skilled workers are likely to lose their jobs. Even some skilled workers are not spared from this emerging catastrophe, as numerous job categories such as brick layers are increasingly becoming redundant. November 1. 3, 2. Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Reinventing the World Social Forum The World Social Forum WSF met for the first time in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2. This was an event of extraordinary importance. It signaled an alternative form of globalization to the globalization being promoted by global capitalism, at a time when capitalism was increasingly assuming it is most exclusive and antisocial version neoliberalism. This was not its first signal, but it was unquestionably its most consistent one. November 1. 0, 2. Dick Nichols. New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers. Judge Carmen Lamela of Spains National High Court direct descendant of the fascist Franco era Court of Public Order took the war of the Spanish state against the Catalan pro independence government to a new level of judicial violence on November 2. It was not enough that the two leaders of the Catalan mass pro independence organizations the Catalan National Assembly and Catalan cultural and language association Omnium Cultural, were already in jail. November 8, 2. 01. Dan Freeman Maloy. Balfour at 1. 00 A Legacy of Racism and Propaganda.