The entire
ebook series sells for $ 57.54 bundled in the US, or $ 8 - $ 10 individually, and the audiobooks are $ 242.94 bundled and $ 30 - $ 45 individually, so you can save some serious cash by going the library route instead.
The entire
ebook series sells for $ 57.54 bundled -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Last week, for the first time ever, a major author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere author of the # 1 best -
selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her publisher) to release the
ebooks directly.
Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is
sold along with the TV
series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is
sold at # 12.99 as an
ebook.
This post, since it's waking up the
series after a long hiatus, will be reviewing my experiences with the various services available for formatting and / or
selling your
ebook for you.
Today, her self - published Gansett Island
Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has
sold more than 2.5 million
ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.
As you'll hear in the interview, Harry saw how his Fiona Griffiths crime fiction
series was being marketed and
sold in the United States and suggested a change to the
ebook royalties from his big 5 publisher.
After a couple years of having an agent try to
sell my novel to major New York publishing houses and getting a
series of rejections, I decided to go the self publishing
ebook route.
Well - known researcher, feminist and author, Naomi Klein, released her best -
selling book on climate change about one year after I released my first
ebook, using This Changes Everything as her book's title, which is identical to MY Volume I of The Spanners
Series «title.
When / if The Spanners
Series ebooks start
selling well and your fan base has grown sufficiently, you may raise Volume II's price to $ 5.99 during Volume III's Pre-order period, now pushed into spring, 2015, and set the Pre-order price @ $ 2.99 for Volume III, This Is / Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change.
The Spanners
Series «Volume II, This Changes My Family and My Life Forever, is only $ 3.99 and also available everywhere
ebooks are
sold.
After retaining the digital rights to the entire
series long before
ebooks and e-readers were expected to reach their current penetration in the industry, Rowling launched her own company and website to
sell the
ebooks, brokering deals that managed to make the titles available through major online retailers while still driving that traffic to her site.
Bella Andre is a great example of someone writing a ton of books and
selling a new
series to a major publisher while continuing her normal
ebook exclusives.
Her young adult
series «Daughters of Zeus» is available wherever
ebooks are
sold.
Learn how to better promote ane
sell your
series or trilogy with this tip - packed
eBook.
A gal I'm interviewing later in the week has her first
ebook at $ 1, but then
sells the rest in the
series at $ 4.95 each.
Since this is a large subject we've broken it down into a
series called Publishing and
Selling eBooks with Amazon.
The move caps off a
series of
ebook moves by Dymocks including the recent announcement that they'll begin
selling ebooks from their website, a partnership with Aussie
ebook distributor
eBook.com to support a new format for reading
ebooks online, and the installation of in - store kiosks in their flagship George Street, Sydney store to let buyers browse and buy
ebooks.
I saw that I
sold hundreds of copies on Kindle, and the the
ebooks of mine in the same
series from my traditional publisher
sold 5 or 6 each.
Even though people like to say that
ebooks are forever and that you can continue to earn money from them indefinitely, the natural order of things is for new releases to
sell better than older books, especially in the case of a
series that's been finished for a couple of years.
When indie publishing evangelist and best
selling author J.A. Konrath got the rights back to the first six books of his Hyperion - published Jack Daniels
series, he asked if we could give each of the volumes a unified, premium
ebook and print interior design that could carry forward into new books featuring featuring the seasoned, brash Chicago detective at the heart of his
series.
So if, for example, my
ebooks from the same
series sold 100 copies from my imprint, they also
sold 80 - 120 copies from the traditional publisher.
Today Amazon is still
selling the print edition at a 42 % discount — but as of Tuesday morning, there are now also
ebook editions available for every book in the
series with nearly the same discount!
eBooks Kindle en Español includes: • All of the Spanish - language Nielsen best sellers available as
eBooks in the United States, and 65 of the top 100 Spanish - language print best sellers from Amazon.com • The largest representation of Mexican authors, including Jose Emilio Pacheco, Carlos Monsivais and Sergio Pitol • Kindle Singles in Spanish, including Singles by best -
selling authors Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Orlean • An exclusive selection of Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go books in Spanish • Compilations of articles from «El Pais,» including exclusive pieces from Mexican journalists writing about Mexican current affairs • Subscriptions to 14 leading Latin American newspapers such as El Universal and La Nacion • Popular English - language books translated into Spanish, such as the Hunger Games
series, the Twilight
series, «Steve Jobs,» «The Help,» and books by authors Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Joel Osteen
Pottermore, the site dedicated to all things Harry Potter, apparently has
sold almost $ 5 million worth of the
eBook editions of the seven - book
series in its first month of sales.
Of course, if you're publishing
ebooks, your
ebooks sell forever, so it makes sense to write in
series.
In my
series of
ebooks about
ebooks — published as John Franklin, I strongly advocate publishing with both Amazon and B&N because industry reports indicate they
sell 90 to 95 % of all
ebooks sold.
Modern
ebook readers seem to love
series novels, whereas stand - alone books are a harder
sell.
The Kindle
series of eReaders have always been consumption devices intended to
sell Amazon products — specifically, Kindle
eBooks and magazines — and the Kindle Fire expands on this by adding music, movies and mobile apps to the mix.
Using
eBooks as lead generators or creating a
series of them by dividing a bigger book into shorter
eBooks makes perfect sense — since most non-narrative nonfiction authors are
selling their expertise, and have many more ways of offering their knowledge and experience, not simply via the written word.
When J.K. Rowling launched Pottermore, the web site and store to
sell the Harry Potter
series of
ebooks, Rowling caused quite a stir by refusing to include DRM with any of the EPUB format books
sold directly from the site.
If you have ever read my blog before, you will know that I found that enrolling the books in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery
series in KDP Select was very rewarding — even though it meant accepting the terms of enrollment that prohibited me from
selling my
ebooks in other stores.
Here's the
series: Tues: Where to Publish Wed: Formatting
Ebooks — The Easy Ways Thurs: Formatting
Ebooks — The Hard Way Fri: Publishing to iTunes Apple's iBookstore / iTunes
sells books.
And when you purchase all 5 books in this best -
selling series as one, you save almost 50 % off the regular
eBook prices.
Readers will also find
eBooks that are only available in the Kindle Store such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid
series, and 13 titles by the best -
selling and iconic Paulo Coelho, as well as his never - before - published short non-fiction piece «O Livro dos Manuais.»
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.
His Hangman's Daughter
series has
sold over a million copies of three titles between print,
ebook and audio - book sales... «One big question is how much of the sale came from Harcourt's print edition?»
I am all for amazon
selling whatever for whatever $ amount they want — but they are not involved in how much the content COST the publisher (how much the author is being paid) J.K Rowling's latest or the newest in the DaVinci code
series may cost a publisher considerably MORE$ $ than average (in advances or per copy royalties or % royalties) and Copyediting a 1000 page book costs more than a 400 page one — Amazon isn't just saying that they want to
sell ebooks for no more than $ 9.99, they are saying they want to pay no more than (whatever %) of $ 9.99 per copy
sold.
(More about why that happens in this post: KDP Select & Kindle Unlimited: Why
Ebooks Not Enrolled Are at a Disadvantage) In 2015, I found that I
sold less of each title overall for my backlist books (specifically my Emperor's Edge books, which are part of a
series I completed over a year ago), most likely because the permafree Book 1 is being downloaded a lot less now — there are more free titles available at Amazon and elsewhere, and also I believe KU has siphoned off some of the deal seekers who used to peruse the free lists.
The first three books in the Vatican Knights
series in Germany, published as Die Ritter Des Vatikan for Luzifer - Verlag, have all been on the bestseller charts becoming # 1 on Amazon for Political and Military Thriller.To date, Rick Jones has
sold more than 300,000
ebooks worldwide.
Hugh Howey, author of the bestselling, indie - original science fiction
series Wool, has published an eye - popping, and important data - rich report on independent author earnings from
ebooks sold on Amazon.
I think it is so ridiculous when two
ebooks in «The Call The Midwife» trilogy are at the library but they will not
sell the first book in the
series to libraries, you can, however, buy it.
• All of the Spanish - language Nielsen best sellers available as
eBooks in the United States, and 65 of the top 100 Spanish - language print best sellers from Amazon.com • The largest representation of Mexican authors, including Jose Emilio Pacheco, Carlos Monsivais and Sergio Pitol • Kindle Singles in Spanish, including Singles by best -
selling authors Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Orlean • An exclusive selection of Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go books in Spanish • Compilations of articles from «El Pais,» including exclusive pieces from Mexican journalists writing about Mexican current affairs • Subscriptions to 14 leading Latin American newspapers such as El Universal and La Nacion • Popular English - language books translated into Spanish, such as the Hunger Games
series, the Twilight
series, «Steve Jobs,» «The Help,» and books by authors Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Joel Osteen
Ebook versions of the best -
selling Harry Potter
series will be available starting in October on a new website called «Pottermore.»
Some writers start with a
series of two - or three - word phrases that describe them, like this one from Amanda Hocking, the paranormal romance young - adult fiction author who
sold more than $ 2 million in
ebooks in one year.
The author of the Donovan Creed
series recently joined Kindle Million Club as he
sold more than 1 million
ebooks.
The magazine's first
ebook — a
series of dispatches from Anna Badkhen in northern Afghanistan — has
sold 5,000 copies, at $ 2.99 each, since September.
I just updated my best
selling eBook on Amazon: The Career Artisan
Series, The 21st Century Resume.