When you sell your book yourself, meaning not through a retailer, you are responsible for ordering
the book for your end customer.
Not exact matches
If compare the cost to giving away a free Kindle (or highly subsidized higher -
end Kindle) to every Prime member who signs up or re-ups
for two years vs. a) the revenue gained from the ebooks purchased by those
customers, b) the revenue from new Prime members, and c) being able to offer a package which is basically free shipping on all Amazon orders + Netflix + Spotify + a ton of free
books + a free Kindle... that's got ta make good economic sense
for them, right?
Because at the
end of the day, they haven't really ever given a shit about everyone else in the
book trade... My worry would be that by selling Kindle devices, we would be converting
customers to using Amazon
for their physical
book sales as well as e-books.
Worse, the general reading public doesn't understand that Amazon can't control the prices
for those
books from the agency model publishers, and it is the one on the receiving
end of the bad
customer feelings.
In the
end, the stores often function as a place
for customers to simply browse
books and test out Amazon's devices, like the Kindle or Echo speaker.
And yet, they still got so many complaints that their
books «aren't on Kindle» that in the
end they had to make a huge change their store's selling policies, changing the way they'd sold e-
books for over a decade and disgruntling many of their oldest
customers, in order to put their e-
books on Amazon so more people would actually buy them.
Toward the
end of July, 2014, Amazon introduced a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, which allows
customers to read unlimited
books for $ 9.99 (US price) per month.
KINDLE UNLIMITED Toward the
end of July, 2014, Amazon introduced a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, which allows
customers to read unlimited
books for $ 9.99 (US price) per m...
But guess what, Amazon already does that with the page that pops up at the
end of any e-
book directing
customers to where they can rate the
book they've just finished and where they can see what else the author has
for sale.
The success of the eBook business
for traditional
book publishers will depend on the relationship they have with the
end - user
customer.
, write a great story, get distributed - drm inconviences
customers more than pirates - use google alerts to stay abreast of of search terms phrases used in your
book to watch out
for plagiarizers - market your
book / brand, blog, fb, twitter - get beta readers - never -
ending book launch - study bestsellers in your category - highest earners write 150 - 200k words 60 - 80k are considered full length tho - top 50 bestsellers on smashwords average 100k words - write series (review of free
book)
Selling on other devices to
customers who would otherwise have bought in the Kindle store
ends up hurting your profile across all eBook readers when you are starting out.When you sell PDF eBooks directly, they should be formatted just like printed
books, and in my case, I allow
customers to print the PDF, which works especially well
for overseas buyers who really want a hard copy but didn't want to pay (and wait) to have a
book shipped from overseas.
In many competitor
booking engines, the
customer fails to qualify
for the various discounts when requesting a 4 night stay, and
ends up with a quotation of $ 400!
I've reached out to the company owner, Jerome Caywood, (who disguises himself as a
customer service person) and was told that I couldn't be paid
for work that I had completed towards the
end of 2017 because it was «a new year» and his «payroll department» had no way of going back to last year's
books to pay me.