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Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by dethstar on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:40AM (#6752789)
I don't really like the fact that despite having to pay to use the tools you're not getting all the royalties. Like buying carpenter tools and getting 80% royalties off the table you made.
Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by ashdav on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:49AM (#6752822)
We've had some feedback about this so we're toying with a new pricing model. See http://tablo.io/plans

More inline with a blogging service. Thoughts?

Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by bambax on Monday November 18, 2013 @04:49AM (#6753532)
The value you're providing is not obvious.

It's really easy to publish an infinite amount of books on the Kindle store; I haven't tried iBookstore but I guess it's not very hard either (and do we need to care about them? What's their market share?)

I'm not ready to pay someone to just sit between me and the Kindle store; and I certainly won't surrender any royalties for this.

There are things in your presentation that do sound interesting, though: - early feedback as the book is being written (that could maybe result in good word-of-mouth marketing) - "incredible" sales reports

But in any case, I think the pricing should be more inline with DistroKid ($20 annual flat fee, 100% royalties, infinite amount of titles).

Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by ics on Monday November 18, 2013 @02:41AM (#6753146)
That's much better– I came to comment on the same thing. The people with fewer titles are the ones who need the royalties much more so than anyone else so the current pricing comes across as a hedge on one small author blowing up rather than developing an ecosystem which benefits all small authors. I imagine down the line there are many more services you could offer in exchange for royalties that would make sense– the analytics are one except they're very helpful at the base level too. Perhaps an additonal layer/finer grained analytics, a featured catalog, other promotional services, etc...
Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by dethstar on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:52AM (#6752838)
Yeah I think that's pretty okay I guess. I'm guessing it shouldn't look like this: http://i.imgur.com/QfWgsHs.png
Re:Show HN: Tablo – Create and publish books socially by ashdav on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:57AM (#6752849)
Nope, just a mockup. We'll make the real one look pretty :)