I made it safely back to Wisconsin yesterday afternoon. The weather along the way was not too bad, and I made good time. I was pretty exhausted, though, a sign that I will soon by 64 and that it is beginning to feel like it. I have to be at work tomorrow (tutoring in the morning, library in the afternoon) and am glad I gave myself a buffer day to relax a bit after the drive.
One thing waiting for me on my return was my share of some sort of class-action settlement with Barnes & Noble having to do with Nook. Not sure what it was, but it seems some people were overcharged for something and I was apparently one of those people. I had been notified that I would receive the check and it arrived while I was in Texas.
My share of this big payoff? Seventy-three cents. So I have a check made out for $0.73 and have to deposit that in the bank. I could ask them to cash it, but I don't want to look a teller in the face about this. So I am tucking it into a deposit with a couple of other checks to hide the absurdity.
For the record, my books are available on Amazon in print and Kindle versions and also at Barnes & Noble (online only) in print and Nook versions. Looking back over the past couple of years, I see a consistent pattern. I sell more in a month -- way more -- on Amazon (print and Kindle) than I do on B&N (print and Nook) in a year. I don't market them actively in either place. Draw your own conclusions.
5 comments:
I think Pauls last royalty check was about the same as yours Michael.
I think he told them to stash the royalties until they reached at least £20 before sending them too. Cost more to print, mail , then take them to be deposited than they were worth!
Lawd,..its a process.
This was not a royalty check. This one was for some sort of legal settlement having to do with things I had purchased.
I have a deal with Nook similar to Paul's, where they don't send royalties until they hit a certain level. But I can track sales even before then, which is how I know how poor my record is with them.
Sigh!
PS -- Kindle, Amazon and Barnes & Noble do a direct deposit for me, so they don't have to cut a check. Amazon/Kindle has started depositing money even in smaller amounts. Which means it trickles in. I don't have to wait for it, but it doesn't look as impressive when it is a few bucks each month instead of a heftier check every few months.
When we've moved, we've received final bills for less than one dollar. And if we don't send a check, we would receive threats for collection. When we left California three years ago, one of the utilities phoned us twice to demand payment of our final 43 cents.
When I left St. Louis University, Mitchell, I had a similar experience with the bank over twenty cents. They (the computer, obviously) sent three letters costing them close to a dollar trying to collect and then threatening me with a collection agency. A sister friend went to the bank and gave them twenty cents to get them off my back. And that happened because the teller made an error when I closed my account. She claimed I had twenty more cents than my checkbook showed, so she gave the the twenty cents they were trying to get back.
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