Coronavirus: social, economic and other changes as a result of the pandemic

[teamsaint]

Any idea what percentage Amazon takes/makes on a Kindle sale, ts?
All I could find after a quick Google search seemed to relate to self-publishing.

Amazon receive somewhere around their standard trade discount, ie the same as they get on print books. For most publishers this would be a bit north of 50% , depending on whether a title is being promoted.
You can safely assume that after some other ( non amazon ) fees, the publisher will get a bit more than 40% of what you pay on an ebook.
Unfortuntaly , there is next to no competition in the ebooks market, though you can buy through Hive , WHS and I think Waterstones. Not sure how user- friendly these platforms are though.

As a bit of general guidance,we ( and I expect this applies elsewhere) tend to receive a pretty similar net price in all of the major channels. We tend to try to support non Amazon channels, ( indies, indie onliners, wholesalers) as a way of keeping our customer base diverse.

Thanks for your enquiry !!

[french frank]

We should all think very carefully where we spend our money over the next two months, if we don’t want future choice very badly eroded.

Pleased to see our local traders beginning to take matters in their stride (with efficient deliveries). A bit more expensive than the Coop, which I would still patronise if I ever went out; but at least I'm doing more cooking and less eating out which keeps the weekly food bill manageable.

The newly launching Bookshop .org , which similar to Hive is another way of supporting your local indie bookshop while getting a good price.

Will look over it, but unfortunately I'm always looking for a specific title, usually OoP, so I buy it where I can find it. Amazon traders must make some profit or they wouldn't use them in the first place. Fortunately, I have many many unread books, so this concentrates my mind on what I have. Less choice to bewilder me.

Thinking on, I very seldom buy anything at all except food and books.

[Dave2002]

Pleased to see our local traders beginning to take matters in their stride (with efficient deliveries). A bit more expensive than the Coop, which I would still patronise if I ever went out; but at least I'm doing more cooking and less eating out which keeps the weekly food bill manageable.

Oh dear - and shame on you () - not supporting the local eateries.

We did support some - and some not so local - while the Eat out to Help Out scheme was running, and now it seems that that "initiative" may have made at least a modest contribution to the worsening of the state of the UK re "controlling" (imagines a Playstation controller) the virus.

I just went out to buy some eggs - urgently required for a cooking experiment, and found the local garage store (about 4 miles) had a couple of boxes of localish free range eggs for about £3 - for the two. Otherwise I would have had to go around 8 miles to Lidl - which in fairness round here does have some local produce.

[cloughie]

Oh dear - and shame on you () - not supporting the local eateries.

We did support some - and some not so local - while the Eat out to Help Out scheme was running, and now it seems that that "initiative" may have made at least a modest contribution to the worsening of the state of the UK re "controlling" (imagines a Playstation controller) the virus.

I just went out to buy some eggs - urgently required for a cooking experiment, and found the local garage store (about 4 miles) had a couple of boxes of localish free range eggs for £3 - for the two. Otherwise i would have had to go around 8 miles to Lidl - which in fairness round here does have some local produce.

£3 for the two not that bad a price for a local convenience store - I’m intrigued by the ‘ urgently requied forva cooking experiment’ - alchemy?

[Pulcinella]

£3 for the two not that bad a price for a local convenience store - I’m intrigued by the ‘ urgently requied forva cooking experiment’ - alchemy?

Me too!
I think we should be told (on the What are you cooking (or even baking) now thread).

[Serial_Apologist]

Me too!
I think we should be told (on the What are you cooking (or even baking) now thread).

Double double,
Toil and trouble;
Fire burn,
And cauldron bubble.

Leftovers from Dave2002's Trick or Treat rampage last night!

[Dave2002]

Double double,
Toil and trouble;
Fire burn,
And cauldron bubble.

Leftovers from Dave2002's Trick or Treat rampage last night!

Witches Sabbath! Did anyone play Berlioz last night?

Actually was for lunch today - pudding was some form of sticky toffee apple pudding - to use up a few large cooking apples we'd been given.

There was an "Oh dear **** we need eggs for the pudding moment this morning.

Experimental because the recipe has not been tried by us before. Half of it still left - very tasty.

[teamsaint]

Apparently National trust Gardens and Parks are remaining open during groudhog lockdown.

I just booked up to visit Mottisfont on Saturday, which should be nice.

[Dave2002]

Apparently National trust Gardens and Parks are remaining open during groudhog lockdown.

I just booked up to visit Mottisfont on Saturday, which should be nice.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont Good place to visit. We saw part of a production of Pride and Prejudice there. It was raining very hard, and we got very wet up to the interval. Then "we" decided to leave.

I wanted to stay on - I was already soaked through - to see what happened in the end!

[french frank]

I wanted to stay on - I was already soaked through - to see what happened in the end!

Reader, she married him

[Leinster Lass]

Reader, she married him

Wasn't that Jane Eyre?

[Dave2002]

Reader, she married him

Wrong book! I see I was beaten to it.

[french frank]

Wrong book! I see I was beaten to it.

Wasn't that Jane Eyre?

No, that was "Reader, I married him". Mine was a mutatis mutandis response, since clearly I didn't marry Mr Rochester, so I couldn't say "Reader, I married him". As Dave2002 was (I thought lightheartedly) implying ignorance of the ending of Pride and Prejudice, I was merely lightheartedly recasting the sentence to settle his doubts, since Elizabeth Bennett does marry Mr Darcy.

:irony3:

[Leinster Lass]

No, that was "Reader, I married him". Mine was a mutatis mutandis response, since clearly I didn't marry Mr Rochester, so I couldn't say "Reader, I married him". As Dave2002 was (I thought lightheartedly) implying ignorance of the ending of Pride and Prejudice, I was merely lightheartedly recasting the sentence to settle his doubts, since Elizabeth Bennett does marry Mr Darcy.

:irony3:

Thank you. I've never actually read any Jane Austen - from what I've heard, the plots will be too complicated for me - but it's nice to know how at least one of them ends!

[oddoneout]

Thank you. I've never actually read any Jane Austen - from what I've heard, the plots will be too complicated for me - but it's nice to know how at least one of them ends!

The plots are fairly straightforward and the basic storylines are still much in use in modern fiction - Pride and Prejudice aren't historical problems! - unfavourable first impressions that are forced to change over time, falling head over heels for the wrong man etc. What can cause problems or prove a barrier is a combination of the style of writing(although Jane Austen is not too much disadvantaged to modern readers in that respect in my opinion) and the historical context - not knowing why certain behaviour is unacceptable or the constraints of class and income - a self confessed poor household might still have paid help for instance. Again, those aren't issues unique to the past, it is the particulars that may differ.