Thousands and thousands of
ebook copies sold during a short period of time.
Not exact matches
In 2012, even I wrote a 150 - page
eBook about severance package negotiations that still regularly
sells about ~ 35
copies a month at $ 85 each (2nd edition for 2017) without any effort.
The small goal I mentioned in this post was just publishing an
ebook and
selling 10
copies at $ 10 a month.
Finally, remember also that if your
eBook takes off and
sells thousands of
copies, this will make your next book much more desirable for the traditional publishing houses.
Many authors
sell the hard
copy but give away the
ebook version.
I wasn't surprised, when after the Chag, I suddenly
sold a bunch of
copies of my Whole30
ebook.
Now instead of sitting by your computer screen hunting the internet for advice, you can download a free
copy of the Craft Fair Guide: Tips and Tricks for
Selling at Arts and Craft Shows
eBook and look over our collection of tips with a nice cup of tea.
He is the author of the bestselling
ebook, The Truth about Six Pack Abs — which has
sold over 1 million
copies in several languages, as well as the best - sellers The Fat Burning Kitchen, Do This, Burn Fat: 101 Sneaky Fat Loss Tricks, and The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging.
She made international headlines by
selling over a million
copies of her self - published books, primarily in
eBook format.
A well designed cover draws the reader in and the blurb (
ebook) and back cover
copy (print) is what
sells it.
So when a retailer discounts your
ebook and you don't
sell enough extra
copies to make up the difference, he is giving you an arbitrary pay cut.
If you terminate this Agreement, we will cease
selling your
eBooks within ten (10) business days from our receipt of your notice, but we will retain the right to maintain digital
copies of your
eBook to continue to support our customers who have purchased your
eBook.
So, we're throwing a good old - fashioned author sales contest for Download Day and the author who
sells the most
copies of their
eBook on December 26th, 2011 — even if you
sell your
eBook for free — will win a Barnes and Noble NOOK and $ 100 off coupon good for anything on Lulu.
We noticed about a year ago, too, just how successful she had been with the
ebook version of Replacement Child —
selling more than 10,000
copies.
You can now apply DRM to your
eBook, and
sell a licensed version which can't be freely
copied and distributed.
Assuming an average
eBook price of about $ 4.99, and an average royalty rate of 60 %, let's say, you'd have to
sell about 1,400
copies every month consistently to make a decent living, and I'm here to tell you that anything having to do with the sale of a non-essential product will never, ever be consistent.
Selling many
copies of your work over the years can be challenging, but if you
sell your
eBook online on your own site you may be pleasantly surprised at your results.
«I think we'd estimate up to around 5 percent» of
copies sold are digital, «whereas I hear from other crime publishers that a typical
ebook sales figure is around 25 to 30 percent.»
«We are delighted to work with Scribd and Oyster to offer this exciting new model for readers to find and read
eBooks, and to do so in a manner that respects the value of our authors» creative endeavors and supports our mutual goals of
selling the most possible
copies of their books.»
They both were able to
sell their books as
eBook and hard
copies if they chose to, they both made lots of money off of their books, and they both were seen as authors by the people that bought their books.
The numbers speak for themselves: So far, the trilogy has
sold more than 250,000
copies, in both paperbacks and
eBooks.
I
sold about 2700
copies of it during the month (not including those who purchased through my eARC offering in August) and about 6,000
ebooks across all of my titles and all stores (over 5,000 came from Amazon U.S.).
But, I thought, if I could
sell some early
copies of EE5, maybe I could come up with a couple hundred dollars to pay for turning the short story into an
ebook.
Nearly 5,500
copies of my
ebook were downloaded over a three - day period, and I continued to more
sell books once my book returned to its regular price — something I was not expecting.
Books that may have only
sold a handful of
copies in the course of a year or that have been out - of - print suddenly gain new life in
ebook form.
For non-fiction
ebook topics, solving a problem is the easiest way to help boost your chances of
selling more
copies.
It turns out that Kindle
eBooks are now
selling a lot more
copies than I would have guessed just yesterday, and the # 1 Kindle title is outselling the # 1 paper title, though it's impossible for me to say by how much..
A self - published author could get printed
copies, make an
ebook, market online,
sell books by hand, everything.
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more
copies of my novels than I've
sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
I've refreshed the data about my offer to hand -
sell ebook copies to people until I can deploy for general release.
If sites spring up to resell
ebooks with no licensing limits, they could duplicate and
sell as many
copies as they want.
Grab a
copy — it's FREE where
ebooks are
sold.
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.
Obviously, they
sell only a few
copies compared to
ebook sales now, but I think it's important to leave a little more than just foot prints in the sand.
I can tell from first experience, even after
selling 1600
copies in a month the earning doesn't constitute a «living», especially because readers hardly buy an
ebook priced over $ 3.99 unless you are one of the big names.
Amazon holds a
copy of the
ebook so it can action a download to a customer when a
copy is
sold.
However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the
ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle
copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book sale or the local senior center,
sell it to my favorite used book store, etc..
When an
ebook sells for $ 1 to $ 6, and the AVERAGE
ebook sells a few hundred
copies (or even a few thousand) where's the money for development in addition to: design, additional content such as illustration, audio or video, editing, a teeny bit of overhead, royalties, and promotion?
I'll be arranging with Third Place to
sell print
copies on consignment, and meanwhile, the
ebook editions will go up on the various big
ebook -
selling sites as soon as I familiarize myself with all the appropriate systems and procedures.
I think that pricing is typical for publishers who don't expect to
sell many
copies in
ebook format.
If we also publish the title as an
eBook we have to be
selling a specified minimum number of
copies in every royalty period or again the rights will revert.
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ebook copies, and your books in the IAN Amazon Bookstore.
The Toronto Star was working on a deal to publish an excerpt of Paula Todd's wildly successful
ebook Finding Karla, which ultimately
sold 70,000
copies last year.
Ebooks only
sell about 550
copies per year.
We gave away 102
eBooks through Smashwords mostly when we announced the book and for all of 2012 we
sold only 18
copies via Smashwords distribution.
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By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had
sold over 82,000
copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle
eBooks section.
If Amazon /
ebook retailers are your primary sales platform (and they are, unless you are a professional speaker or planning to
sell thousands of
copies at events) you need to design for Amazon.
I've had my
ebook out for just over a week now, and have already
sold enough enough
copies to break even on the cost of creating the book, which is great!
In an interview with J - Source's Eric Mark Do, executives from paper said that they have typically only
sold between 100 to 300
copies of each
ebook they've published, priced at $ 4.99 apiece.