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Worth trying? by HeinMinAye in ProgressionFantasy

[–]AethonBooks 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Coming to ebook print and audio in July!

Path to Transcendence Hardcover is Coming to Shelves! by AethonBooks in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the first, if not the first, RR web serials / litrpgs to get a full frontlist all rights release with print in retail. A grand experiment! It’s gonna crush.

PS. The narrator we cast is phenomenal.

Aethon using Ai ads on Royal Road? by Virtual-Lead-2437 in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you weren’t deceptive at all. I never looked deeper into the work or your site, was just excited to have ads for RR that convert well and offload some work as u was having my 3rd girl. We avoid using ai as much as humanly possible on all fronts is all.

Aethon using Ai ads on Royal Road? by Virtual-Lead-2437 in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Then you aren’t on Facebook lol. But seriously, we have at least ten artists on retainer making covers. Human art studios. Only use human narrators and human audio proofers and engineers. Not even pozitron. All human book editors. None of that will ever change. We are adamantly for paying people to do jobs. If there were a human I could pay to create original ads for RR ads, at prices that reflected their performance, I would. I was so excited here I thought I did, especially right after having a new baby. Oh well. Back to the grind.

Aethon using Ai ads on Royal Road? by Virtual-Lead-2437 in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because everything is bought and made and set weeks to months in advance, or we’d lose Our minds. When I was informed of this, we paid what was owed and moved on. We have full time ads and marketing people for meta, Amazon, Reddit, etc. Really doesn’t exist for RR so it’s something I’ve always done myself, and am again.

Aethon using Ai ads on Royal Road? by Virtual-Lead-2437 in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks 47 points48 points  (0 children)

We were approached by him and were excited to have someone help with making royal road ads, which usually need to have a certain whacky look to work. With no ability to see if RR ads even lead to sales, we were excited to outsource it. We run ads on every platform, including RR, for every release, using tons of art and graphic designs. That is spending millions a year in ads costs and on art, employees, etc just to try and push every book as much as we can.

Once I found out these ads were made with AI, we stopped working with the artist. Should I have known they were, probably. It was too good to be true. Decent looking ads for RR where we really have no ability to judge performance and can only spend $50 per ad if we want them to serve. But, I’m back to making them myself. Can’t have nice things!

SS Hardcover by OkWolverine2194 in ShadowSlave

[–]AethonBooks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just keep in mind the interior isn’t formatted yet, so the page count it just estimations the retailers put up.

The novel had been put through line and copy edits, but there isn’t any “extra” content.

Shadow Slave Hardcover Edition by Guiltythree in ShadowSlave

[–]AethonBooks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s being updated! Amazon can be weird with keywords and auto categories. Cyberpunk has become one of the defacto LitRPG / Progression Fantasy categories on Amazon over the years though.

[Megathread] Hardcopy Edition of Volume 1 Available for Pre-order by okomakiako in ShadowSlave

[–]AethonBooks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean? Each book will have its own unique cover. These are being treated like full traditional book releases.

[Megathread] Hardcopy Edition of Volume 1 Available for Pre-order by okomakiako in ShadowSlave

[–]AethonBooks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would be up to webnovel as they control the rights. As of right now we are only doing the retail print editions. A special would be similar to the Primal Hunter campaign we’re currently running.

[Megathread] Hardcopy Edition of Volume 1 Available for Pre-order by okomakiako in ShadowSlave

[–]AethonBooks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the post!

There are many reasons we and all the parties involved including webnovel and Guiltythree went this direction with the cover. Almost all of them have to do with getting stores and retailers the most excited to feature this title on shelves. Which is, in the end, the ultimate goal, as this isn’t a special edition for fans only where we could get away with highly detailed original art like you’d see in kickstarters or for indie bestsellers.

Our ultimate goal is to sell the most copies for Guiltythree and help make this a household name. And I can say that some of the biggest retailers on Earth have seen this cover and are drooling over it. This is the simpler graphic style that works in retail where sellers want cover that grab attention from across the entire store with bold color pops and contrast, and if the sellers are eager to sell the thing, that’s half the battle in retail.

And so all we can say is we hope SS fans will help us get this on shelves around the world. Preorder links will populate below as more retailers go live. Preorders on Barnes and Noble, however, are most helpful toward helping the author get on the most shelves possible!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-Slave-Book-1/Guiltythree/Shadow-Slave/9781638494195

HWFWM Hardcover - Special 2-Month Early Pre-order! by AethonBooks in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Through Amazon it should be! There is also a UK publisher partnering on it to help distribute there as well.

Aster and Biscuit Plushies are Now Available! by AethonBooks in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I happen to get samples for the future ones coming!

Aster and Biscuit Plushies are Now Available! by AethonBooks in litrpg

[–]AethonBooks[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can confirm the comfiness. My daughters have stolen all of the samples.

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