If you are paying a self - publishing service to do the digital uploading to
ebook sellers for you, you might check to ensure they are uploading to at least the major players and check out the niche booksellers to see if they fit your target market for your book.
«It doesn't really surprise us as we've been quite established as
ebook sellers for some two and a half years now.»
Joe Konrath is a thriller writer, a genuinely good guy, and a very successful
ebook seller for the Kindle.
Not exact matches
Amazon used to sell most
ebooks — including major titles and best -
sellers —
for $ 9.99.
Of course, this is a million
eBooks total, none of the
eBooks are million
sellers on their own, while sites such as Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library, and The Internet Archive have each had a number of «million
seller eBooks» if you will allow that term
for non-profit organizations.
On the other hand,
ebooks have to be fix in price
for all book
sellers because * drum roll * they are books.
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.
The Southeast Asian
ebook market has been talked about a lot recently: it has become more and more accessible
for Western
sellers since 2014.
To get into Barnes & Noble, one of the more important
sellers of
eBooks in ePub format, we have to go through an aggregator, and some aggregators want to format the file
for you.
However, self - published authors still have a chance to make the
ebook best
seller lists (NY Times and WSJ) because sales data
for ebooks is submitted by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple and Google.
These are the best
sellers of tomorrow that needs to be found, in the multitude of
ebooks that are available, by the traditional publishers who are looking
for the next success story in writing.
All 5 of her children's books were # 1 best -
sellers, including The Little Rose which was a # 1 Amazon Bestseller
for over 60 weeks, became the # 1 Top - Rated Children's
eBook on Amazon, and was adapted into a stage play.
I am going to go into detail about why and how my master template works
for all of the most important
ebook sellers in existence, but if you want to skip all the tech speak and jump right to the template, be my guest.
For example, to find Nobody's Child sorted by Best Seller, a Customer must click: Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks, then find and click the link for «Bestsellers,» and then click through to > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Private Investigato
For example, to find Nobody's Child sorted by Best
Seller, a Customer must click: Kindle Store > Kindle
eBooks, then find and click the link
for «Bestsellers,» and then click through to > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Private Investigato
for «Bestsellers,» and then click through to > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Private Investigators.
Hi Connie - I've never used Smashwords but from what I know, Amazon gets the most web traffic of all book
sellers so that's where I steer clients to
for posting
ebooks.
If the packager restricts the
ebooks to pdf format only, this will limit the number of potential buyers
for the
ebook and the number of web
sellers that will handle the book.
First, here are the Best
Sellers in
eBook Fiction
for the week of Sept. 30.
Being located in the U.S., it's difficult
for me to search
for non-U.S.
ebook sellers.
Every new hardware and
ebook seller means work
for Amazon, and they can't hold a monopoly on the market.
I checked popular German
ebook seller Sofortwelten
for Schlauchgelüste and it looks like it's no longer available — but then again, it's only 8 pm in Germany.
When Macmillan settled with the US Justice Department in February, it could no longer restrict the discounts that major
ebook sellers could charge
for their titles.
There are plenty of
ebook sellers that, either as a matter of principle or
for other reasons, sell DRM - free
ebooks.
The New Best
Seller List
for eBooks will be available in both the print and digital editions of the Times.
He is responsible
for managing all editorial content on DigitalBookWorld.com, including the DBW Expert Publishing Blog, the Digital Book Wire, the DBW Daily, the DBW
Ebook Best -
Seller List and editorial social media communications.
This foresight allowed her company to be the exclusive
seller of the
ebooks, distributing them
for unheard of royalties through major online retail platforms.
In early 2011 the New York Times which is well known
for their hard cover and paper back best
sellers list, will move into the
ebook realm.
The New York time best
seller list
for ebooks, is a tremendous step forward, legitimizing
ebooks into the mainstream.
The move is being seen as part of the French government's plans to save independent booksellers from becoming extinct, a notoriety that online
ebook sellers have earned no matter how convenient it is
for consumers to place orders and have them delivered at home
for free.
One of my author friends pointed out an
eBook that was promoted as an «International Best
Seller,» even though it appeared to be self published and had only been out
for a couple months at best.
For complete details on how to become a category bestseller, and much more, watch for my upcoming interactive eBook, Amazon Categories Create Best Selle
For complete details on how to become a category bestseller, and much more, watch
for my upcoming interactive eBook, Amazon Categories Create Best Selle
for my upcoming interactive
eBook, Amazon Categories Create Best
Sellers.
For the next best seller: Many self - published authors have incredible talent for writing, but don't necessarily have a knack for graphic design or eBook formatti
For the next best
seller: Many self - published authors have incredible talent
for writing, but don't necessarily have a knack for graphic design or eBook formatti
for writing, but don't necessarily have a knack
for graphic design or eBook formatti
for graphic design or
eBook formatting.
What I do look at is the Smashwords.com best
sellers for ebooks and Kindle as well.
Now you are on the main Best
Sellers page
for Kindle
eBooks.
I was just given a hand - me - down kindle (never owned an
ebook reader before) and after hours of searching
for the just - right book to take on vacation, I was a little shocked that it wasn't available on kindle (and being a recent best
seller).
Sellers of
eBooks should brace
for tough times ahead as competition increases dramatically because there are now too many books competing
for the attention of few readers.
EBook sellers have been experiencing incredible growth
for years.
the best trade - in spot, unless you are an eBay
seller,
for a growing list of electronic devices including dedicated
ebook readers, tablets, and smartphones; and
eBooks are the hottest
sellers for genre novels, but many authors also make a «Print - On - Demand» edition that allows physical books to be shipped.
Listen to best
sellers: • The Girl on the Train • Truly, Madly, Guilty • The Power of Habit • Harry Potter • The Martian • A Man Called Ove • Homegoing • The Gene • When Breath Becomes Air • End of Watch A wide range of popular categories like: • Crime and Thrillers • Science Fiction • Fantasy • Romance • Classics • Novels • Mystery • Horror • Self - development • Mindfulness and meditation • Business • Children's books Features designed
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ebooks from Amazon - switch seamlessly between listening to your audiobooks and reading on your Kindle with Whispersync
for Voice.
In honor of Read an
eBook week, author Heather Wardell is offering her novel Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo free this week on a variety of forums /
eBook sellers; interestingly enough, it is available in the Amazon store
for $ 12.95 but you can get it free from the Smashwords site if you click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/4ajwue7 into your computer's web browser.
It's easy to assume that because the Tab has access to the full Android Market and eReader apps from most major
eBook sellers — Google Books, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Sony, plus Aldiko
for indie
eBooks — it's the better choice.
With
ebooks, there is no need to be a «best -
seller» out of the gate or be consigned to mid-lister hell, no competition
for limited shelf space, and no remaindering or going out of print (which of course most publishers use mostly as an excuse to hold on to publishing rights forever).
However, it looks like DRM will continue being a requirement
for selling
eBooks online
for a while yet, and the more
eBook sellers we can support, the more the market will grow.
Many tablet and smartphone users, myself included, may prefer to buy
ebooks from other
sellers (particularly if they're less expensive - something that Leatherbound.me can help you find out), but are willing to purchase from Amazon if that's the only source
for a given title or if there's a notable price difference.
For the first time, we are able to see
ebook pricing factored into best -
seller list - making.
The Hachette / Amazon dispute is an excellent case in point: Hachette foolishly insisted that Amazon include Kindle DRM on its
ebooks, and now all of Hachette's Kindle customers can only read them in the Kindle app, making it a harder sell
for them to start buying Hachette
ebooks from a different
seller instead.
Written
For Ebook Sellers Who Design Their Own Covers — And, Written by a Seasoned
Seller!
It's not impossible
for an audiobook to take off even if the
ebook didn't (Torrent actually sells fairly well
for me, given that it's never been a big
ebook seller and I haven't published a new installment in the series
for several years), especially if it has a great cover, but chances are, you're not going to earn back your investment on books that sell less than 100
ebooks a month.
Roughly 27,750 of the 115,000
ebooks appearing on the Amazon.co.uk UK best
seller lists also appeared on the Amazon.com US best
seller lists, and vice versa —
for a nearly 25 % overlap between all category / subcategory best
sellers in the two stores.
The below graph shows,
for each type of publisher, the percentage of Top 100,000 UK
ebook best
sellers that also were international best
sellers that appeared on the best
seller lists at Amazon.com as well: