Royalties

The ones writers receive not the Royal Family. I have an admiration for all forms of royalties be it those in high places or the cheque one might receive from the proceeds of hard work. I was fortunate enough and humbled to receive a royalty cheque in the mail just yesterday and although it was not vast it was a sign to me that readers, somewhere have seen and purchased copies of my book. That alone is inspiring to me and I'm indebted to my readers forever. What the royalty cheque does not tell me is in what median it was found or even if they were hard copy/s or ePub. This is where I as the author feel to a point I have lost a little control over the sale of my product, my publication. I need to regain this and retain it for life.
Unfortunately, like most I was pretty naive when it came to publishing my first novel, I just wanted to get it out there with the old adage "write it and they will read it" I like most, self published my first novel and again, like most, trusted the publishing company would see me right, that they would look after me and they did to a point. Apparently I retain full rights and ownership of the works written, although I'm not sure how I exercise those rights as I don't seem to be able to adjust the sales cost up or down. I'd rather sell a hundred books at say $1.00 each than ten at $10 each especially ePubs, that means 90 more readers would have read my book instead of just ten and that is my aim, to get people to read them, heck I'd like to make them free for a time and I know people can do this but I don't know how, because I don't have control over the product. But I am learning.
I have a number of novels waiting in the wings so to speak, extracts of some can be found in the (WIP) Writing In Progress section on my website www.rickcanhan.com.au which I might add is up and running again. Cruise on over and check it out, if you do, please drop a comment or two. Cheers again for now and keep on reading, Rick.