For writers who want to earn extra cash and self - publish, keep in mind InBoundPRO's expert writing tips from
eBook authors who have experienced market success:
The DBW survey you reference states that nearly 80 % of self - publishers earn less than $ 1000 per year, not «
ebook authors who are only published in that format.»
2) I'm one of the self - pubbed
ebook authors who missed «the biggest 30 day sale in the history of ebooks» because i couldn't understand the require - ments and details of the KDP Select program.
Don't hesitate to email and ask for your free signed ebook, and if you know other
ebook authors who'd be interested, send them here to this blog post.
KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Select is a specific program for
ebook author who want to sell their ebook through Amazon only for the first 90 days.
Not exact matches
Now BookFunnel delivers half a million
ebook downloads each month on behalf of 3,000 indie
authors,
who pay $ 20 to $ 100 a year for the service.
Fat burning kitchen is an
ebook written by Mike Geary
who is a renowned fitness
author, certified personal trainer and a nutrition expert.
Read Book marketing and
ebook promotion tips for book
authors, book publishers, self - publishing
authors, and e-book publishers
who want to sell more books.
David DeAngelo (born December 5, 1971),
whos real name is Eben Pagan, is a dating advice coach,
author of the popular dating
ebook Double your Dating (2001) and a prominent member of the Pick Up Artist (PUA) or Seduction community.
For many
eBook publishers and
authors, knowing
who is reading your work is as important as making it available in the first place.
I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to older models of publishing, e.g. arranging
eBook contracts in which the
eBooks are overpriced and the
author receives a small royalty — ugh,
who would want that?
It's not everyday you meet an accomplished indie book
author who is also an M.B.A. Justin Swapp,
author of The Shadow Magic Series, produced the
ebook version of his novel The Magic Shop using Pressbooks.com.
It also works for publishers and
authors who want to sell
ebooks with Aerio.
For the most part, sites that display free
ebooks do so to assist
authors who are offering free books through Amazon, we allow you to post ANY bookseller your book is free or discount priced at.
Pronoun and Draft2Digital are going after the same market —
ebook authors and
authors who are publishing
ebooks as well as print books.
Connecting
authors with freelances
who offer the services needed by
authors in the publishing process for example, designers, editors,
ebook formatting etc..
In the latest sign of this disruption,
author John Locke —
who earlier this year became the first self - published
author to sell a million
ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.
For
authors who want to sell
eBooks and downloads, we've added a fixed $ 1.49 base price to cover our credit card processing and hosting expenses.
It doesn't include the numbers from self published
authors,
who use
EBooks almost exclusively.
Even Harry Potter's
author, J.K. Rowling,
who has long stood firm of «no Harry Potter
eBooks», has this very week announced the opening of her very own internet site, complete with all seven Harry Potter books and a new reference book is scheduled, which she's been working on for some time now.
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.
There are many successful
authors who are going straight to
ebooks and skipping the printing of their work all together.
For example, if you are an
author who wants to promote and sell your own Book or
eBook, then you need to get an ISBN.
That's not to say it was ever easy, but the
authors who were early to the
eBook market in particular enjoyed an advantage that
authors just now entering the market do not enjoy.
Authors who made a mint in the early stages of the rise of
eBooks are now being forced out of business, simply because there are better, or cheaper books out there.
This is especially beneficial for
authors who write in genres that are dominated by
eBook sales.
I think established
authors who have some following can easily charge more for their books, although I still belong to the group of people
who'd rather hold a physical copy of a book rather than an
ebook, if I am able to:).
If someone did make an
ebook out of all of this, I don't think anyone would call the person
who compiled the information a «writer» or an «
author» because those words already have established meanings which are very well known to people
who craft the English language for pleasure or profit.
Join those of us
who are tired of being dictated to by a few large traditional publishers, snobbish reviewers, and uninformed columnists, and buy
ebooks published by real people for real people — Indie
Authors.
As I said originally, I by no means think this is the Norma, I believe that
ebooks lend themselves to
authors who may be ill prepared or ill edited and yet take the plunge anyway so I understand your point of view entirely.
What about
authors who turned down a publishing deal (Like me) because it made no sense to give away my
ebook rights for an eternity for a tiny fraction of what I could make as an independent
author?
A number of
authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing
ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers
who would have otherwise paid full price.
They are giving an advance of $ 1,500 and a 50 %
eBook royalty rate to
authors who successfully woo the crowd to get behind their next title.
Privately held Smashwords operates the world's leading
eBook publishing and distribution platform serving over 40,000
authors, publishers and literary agents
who distribute over 125,000
eBooks with Smashwords.
The argument that self publishing is the last resort of people
who weren't good enough to get a publishing deal shows an embarrassing lack of both research and understanding, both of publishing companies,
ebook publishers and the
authors themselves.
New
authors will find it difficult to get a revenue system, but
authors who have a strong track record of
ebook sales will have no problem.
However, the benefits of such an effort are both ways, as it's not only the
authors who get to enjoy a worldwide launch of their literary works, but the portal too has much to earn from the sale of the
ebooks.
It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published
authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published
ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those
who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
No
author in his right mind would advocate stealing
ebook titles except one
who is already established and wealthy and could clearly care less about his work being stolen at this stage in his career... and no clear - thinking person could believe that the field has been leveled for creators of short fiction versus longer fiction
ebooks by the «pay per page» standard when you include short illustrated works.
Even I, a lowly indie
author who's never tickled the upper reaches of the Amazon best - seller lists for long, have, in recent weeks, had a couple of folks point out that my
ebooks are out there in places that I didn't put them.
No, in the
ebook world, which is exploding with new
authors trying to make a start for themselves and old
authors putting out their backlist, there are scads of people out there
who are e-publishing... ONLY to Kindle.
, a Mac - only product, creates
ebooks and print editions should make all PC
authors consider making the switch (or at least befriending one Mac user
who'll let them borrow their computer for an hour).
Taught by Sabrina Ricci, an indie
author and
ebook developer
who has worked for Simon & Schuster, NBC Publishing, and The Experiment Publishing.
Yes, traditional publishers are all competing for the important in - store shelf space, but there are enough self published
authors who are selling gangbusters in
ebooks,
who would do well on shelves.
There are also some individual
authors, such as Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross,
who strongly believe they boost their sales by making some of their books available as free
ebooks — and
who also understand what libraries do for building their audience and attracting new buyers.
I used to stress about bad reviews, my ego throbbing like a bee sting, but then I read something by Indie
author John Locke (
who set the record for
eBook sales and is starting to turn «traditional publishing» into a bad word) that completely changed the game:
Incidentally, Lynn Viehl is a good example of an
author who has published in multiple genres and categories — science fiction, romance, dark fantasy, young adult, christian fiction, and non-fiction (including many free
ebooks on writing craft).
Just to be clear, I'm going to be speaking to the
author who is interested in publishing an
eBook, not a paper book.
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).
Authors who self publish (I just put out my first
ebook so I know) soon discover that it's really hard to get your work visable without paying big $ for it.