Hi all, I'm Erin and I have 7
books selling on kindle, and 5 more in the pipeline.
It's a coup to chart in the top 100 of
all books selling on Amazon, but you can also claim Amazon bestseller status by reaching the top in your category (e.g. Personal Finance).
Shortly after 2002, I have been an author with
books selling on my web page with Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/brightwell.
Email advertising campaigns and connections may be the most effective way to get
your books selling on multiple platforms, but these certainly aren't the only ways to get fans.
And not just anyone, but people of some prominence, including one TV personality and one author of real
books sold on Amazon.
Most celebrity books are written by ghost writers,
the book sells on their name value.
At least one third of
all books sold on Amazon every month are Indy published books.
Excited to see
a book sold on Nook as I could never get my work uploaded to Barnes and Nobles.
Amazon has 630,000 Kindle books, a small fraction of the millions of
books sold on the site.
It's really easy to see how well
books sell on Amazon.
$ 14.99 - $ 6.00 (40 % trade discount) $ 8.99 (net profit)- $ 3.25 (print cost for
book sold on Amazon) $ 5.74 (profit; royalty split depends on publisher)
Think about this:
Every book you sell on Amazon is now likely to show up in the buyer's Goodreads account, within easy view of 16 million readers, on an ever increasing scale, automatically.
The changes appear largely to be in response to an Overstock.com campaign launched this week to be 10 % lower than Amazon's on «the roughly 360,000
books sold on both Overstock.com and Amazon.com,» according to Internet Retailer.
Both pieces of news disprove the outdated notion that a traditional publishing contract is necessary if an author wants to achieve chart - topping PRINT sales, or to see their print
book sold on Walmart shelves.
Amazon will not allow you to place a B&N link in the back matter of
books sold on their site.
For example, the Createspace platform gives authors the opportunity to have their completed
books sold on Amazon, currently the leading online bookseller, for both print and Kindle (ebook) editions.
Indie authors are finding they can make a viable income having their digital
books sold on Amazon.
They are getting resistance on that front because Penguin told us in an exclusive email interview that it «devalues
their books sold on other platforms.»
This book sells on its own just with that presentation.
Digital
books sold on the Web and through mobile devices have extended our reach into markets that are nearly impossible to serve efficiently in print.
Run a big charity fundraiser so that for
every book sold on a certain day or a certain week you give all or part of the profits to a charity of your choice (or better yet, run a fundraiser and then send everyone who donates a free pdf of your book — you won't make money directly from this but it's all about promoting you and your book).
In addition, Lulu offers promotional offers for
books sold on their website, which along with the discounts you set for your book will help you attract more potential buyers.
I got a huge giggle out of this article: WHY DONâ $ ™ T OUR
BOOKS SELL ON THE KINDLE STORE?
The release goes on to state that since April 1, 105 Kindle books have been sold for every 100 print
books sold on Amazon.com.
Apple is trying to join bridges with its iBooks Creator platform that lets you create multimedia
books sold on the iBooks Store.
On the product page of
every book sold on Amazon, about halfway down, is a sales rank.
I suspect the price of Kobo books and
books sold on the Walmart website will be the same.
«For every 100
books we sell on a live title, we'll see 15 - 20 % sell through (on the pre-order for the next book in the series) right away.
I have 190,000 +
books sold on Amazon to date in the last four years, and make my living as a full time writer.
According to unaudited figures issued by Amazon today, since the start of 2012 customers downloaded 114 ebooks for every 100 hardback and paperback
book sold on its site.
«The disproportionate number of
books sold on Amazon, and the need for a wider distribution network,» answered Scott Waxman of Diversion, who spoke at length about one factor that the publishing industry has not done well: direct - to - consumer.
According to unaudited figures issued by Amazon earlier in the week, since the start of 2012 customers downloaded 114 ebooks for every 100 hardback and paperback
book sold on its site.
Carina Press pays 40 % of net digital receipts to
books sold on 3rd party retail sites and 50 % of net digital receipts to books sold directly on the Carina Press website.
For so - called non-agency
books sold on Google's site, in which Google sets the price itself, Google will pay publishers 52 percent of the sale price.
In all cases above,
the books sold on Amazon would not qualify as sales for the purposes of author royalties because they've already been
Royalty from Distribution Sales: When
your book sold on other stores like Flipkart or Amazon.in, then this is the royalty you earn on your book.
«Amazon's decision means that any of those publishers who want
their books sold on the giant Web site will have to use BookSurge.
In all cases above,
the books sold on Amazon would not qualify as sales for the purposes of author royalties because they've already been sold, or originally existed as promotional copies.
I've been on the record for some time telling writers that they need to explore how well
their books sell on the various different platforms available to us.
* 3,332
books sold on Tuesday 11/29 (3328 were Kindle ebooks) * 138.6 ebooks per hour * 2.3 sales per minute (avg.
So
a book sells on Amazon for $ 7 and the publisher gets $ 4.90, then the author gets 6 % of that minus 15 % agent fees.
The SoA's c.e.o Nicola Solomon said she wasn't aware that «buy buttons» were being given to third - party sellers in the UK, but questioned where the volume of cheap
books sold on Amazon.co.uk were coming from.
Most
books sold on Zola are protected with the company's «proprietary» DRM — that was a requirement of the big - six publishers Zola is working with — which Regal claims is «unbreakable.»
«The million
books she sold on her own were at a much lower price point, so this will be a good test of how loyal her fans are, and whether it was the $ 2.99 and 99 cent price tags that attracted them.
Amazon this morning announced Amazon Source, a new program in which independent bookstores will be able to purchase Kindles and accessories at a discount, sell them in their stores, and earn 10 percent commissions on
every book sold on the Kindles during the first two years after purchase.
Amazon this morning announced Amazon Source, a new program in which independent bookstores will be able to purchase Kindles and accessories at a discount, sell them in their stores, and earn 10 percent commissions on
every book sold on the -LSB-...]
I had 148
book sells on Amazon Kindle in February.
We have assumed that the new «agency model» will be used for
all books sold on the iBookstore for split of revenue between Apple and the Publishers.
The numbers are so far off, at first I assumed that these Bookscan numbers were just showing
me books sold on Amazon.