Sentences with phrase «indie ebooks sold»

Nearly 25 % of indie ebooks sold that were published in 2011 used ISBNs, but three years later, only 13 % of indie ebooks sold that were published in 2014 use ISBNs.

We sell more, yes, but what is the average price of the indie ebook sold, if you include the KU «sales»?

Not exact matches

And never fear if you've become a die - hard digital fan since the day your first Kindle arrived... many indie bookstores have affiliate agreements to sell ebooks and e-readers, as well as ways you can take advantage of other in - store offers.

Most of these indie stores are all selling Kobo e-Readers and eBooks, as part of an agreement with the UK Booksellers Association.

127 million / 528 million = 24 % of all adult fiction books of any format sold in the US in 2014 were indie adult fiction EBOOKS

Barbara Freethy reports that one million indie - published ebooks have been sold from Barnes & Nobles

S&S provides weekly sales reports to their authors so I can see how many books I've sold (ebook or print) and also who sold them (indie bookstore versus chain versus places like Costco etc) They also have a great service to tackle piracy (a huge prob with ebooks).

Since most indie ebooks don't receive conventional reviews, we're left with customer reviews at retailers or at Smashwords.com, and for poorly selling books, such reviews are subject to gaming.

It has won readers» awards and jury contests, the last one from The National Indie Excellence ® Awards (NIEA) and has sold in the excess of 5000 copies, ebook, paperback, and audiobook combined.

I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors from publishing houses still sell their ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.

We told guest and I quote my EXACT words, repeated every 10 guests «traditional authors to your left, indie / ebook authors to your right ladies and gentleman» if someone asked and hundreds did, what indie meant, it was explained you write and sell your own work.

As the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks, Smashwords lets you bypass having to deal with multiple author platforms by letting you upload your book and immediately start selling at more than 20 ebook retailers.

As critical as ISBNs may sound, some indie authors have dismissed their importance to their business, mainly because authors can sell ebooks through Amazon without ISBNs and even secure distribution without purchasing them.

Get an agent, publish traditionally, get your name out there, and then (based on today's post) go indie with ebooks and POD once you think you can sell enough books that way?

Most Indie ebooks (and keep in mind, we are talking ebooks, not print, all the way through here) are sold without the ISBN that traditionally has been used to track sales.

It certainly helped indie darling John Locke, who ordered 300 reviews and went on to sell over one million ebooks on Amazon.

John Locke's books and his «How I sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months» gave Seeley the first epiphany that he could become an indie author.

For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs. print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.

In fact, Locke is the first indie author to have sold more than one million ebooks on Kindle.

The company has been figuring out how to launch its business in other countries since early on when it expanded to the U.S. And Kobo has inked deals with the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores, and its equivalent in the UK to have indie bookshops sell its devices and ebooks.

I can go through an indie epub (or self pub) and get up to 50 % (100 % if I do it myself) and make that much on a 3.99 book if I sold 5000 copies of my ebook with an indie pub or 2500 copies of my self - pubbed book.

The ABA, for its part, announced this decision to the more than 350 member indie bookstores who sell Google ebooks through their websites in order to meet their customers» needs for ebooks while still garnering the local community support that they rely on.

In the case of Ragan, who actually sold over 250,000 ebooks in her first year of indie publication, the attention her books received in terms of sales led to a contract for her books to be published by Thomas & Mercer, the mystery imprint of Amazon's traditional publishing house, Amazon Publishing.

I was talking about where most ebooks are sold in the U.S. and not about vendors that sell far fewer ebooks including those by indie authors.

Indie authors can also directly submit their books and not only have them listed on the main Google eBooks site, but sell them on their own website too.

Essentially, the complaint seems to come down to the fact that the American Booksellers Association has a partnership with Kobo to let indie bookstores not only sell the devices in their shops, but also to sell ebooks to customers while making a small affiliate - style profit on it.

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

Kobo thought they had another in when Google pulled out of supplying indie bookstores with digital content and Kobo picked up the contract, but bookstores weren't particularly keen on cannibalizing their own book sales to earn a few dollars for each unit sold, and a feeble commission structure for each ebook sold.

He said that indie authors who sell lots of ebooks are fast tracked through Singles or invited to publish on their platform.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

What percentage of ebooks being sold come from traditional publishing, small press, and indie authors?

Although indie authors can not currently sell enhanced ebooks on any major platforms, they do have the option to put their books up for sale before their release date, at least on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble (via Smashwords).

When indie publishing evangelist and best selling author J.A. Konrath got the rights back to the first six books of his Hyperion - published Jack Daniels series, he asked if we could give each of the volumes a unified, premium ebook and print interior design that could carry forward into new books featuring featuring the seasoned, brash Chicago detective at the heart of his series.

To promote indie bookstores and their ability to sell e-books, Penguin is creating customized easels for stores selling Google eBooks ™ via their IndieCommerce websites.

Notion Press is India's first indie - publishing platform that enables authors to publish, promote and sell print books and eBooks around the world.

There's no shortage of companies that will help would - be authors produce, publish, and sell their ebooks, so in an indie industry that is quickly becoming flooded with startups that aim to entice indie authors of every ilk, there has to be something different brought to publishing table in order to stand... [Read more...]

But Digital Book World has been at work on a more accurate picture of how books are selling, since the typical lower priced indie ebook may sell more copies but actually make less money than a higher priced, traditionally published book.

This new London based company is attempting to get indie authors to sign up with its service and writers will retain 100 % of the royalties on the ebooks they sell.

There's no shortage of companies that will help would - be authors produce, publish, and sell their ebooks, so in an indie industry that is quickly becoming flooded with startups that aim to entice indie authors of every ilk, there has to be something different brought to publishing table in order to stand out.

With the wealth of ebooks titles available and an increase in the use of digital indie publishing platforms which enable authors to post their own works as ebooks, more and more readers are turning to ebook lending libraries and websites for content, especially in recent months when best - selling titles have often been marketed at a very similar price point to their print counterparts.

Ch 7.6 Exploiting Your Rights Most indie authors, especially when they first start out, are flummoxed by the idea of selling rights beyond the print and ebook versions of their works.

Indie authors just can't, can't, can't be selling more ebooks anywhere on Amazon than tradpub is.

How can an indie author leverage creativity to sell more eBooks?

Many indie authors are selling awesome numbers of ebooks online through Amazon.

As an indie author, there is an advantage to selling your eBooks on your own website.

According to the report, indie authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more ebooks daily than all traditional publishers put together.

Yes, they might make the latest Big Name Author book 99 cents as a loss leader — but those books are already selling well, even in an indie - dominated ebook world like we have right now.

It makes it possible for small publishers and indie authors to sell eBooks on their own websites.

If you're an indie author or publisher looking for a fiction genre that will help you sell more eBooks, you can't go wrong with zombie fiction.

In the world of ebooks and Amazon that latter is likely to be all the best selling indie ebooks that don't register in the standard bestseller lists.