I've just put my first book up on Smashwords and I used a lot of your advice to navigate the whole
epublishing thing.
Not exact matches
And promotion is somewhat different —
epublished authors don't need to worry about WalMart not picking up their title or coop or any of these other
things.
Twitter Curator of eBook /
ePublishing / eLibrary news Interview starts at 14:25 Many of the
things that the authors and the publishers complain about are normal, everyday behavior in the chemical industry, in the auto industry, in the telecom industry, and the construction industry, which are industries which I've worked on — this is the way business works.
I have nothing substantial even close to being publishing ready at the moment, so my thoughts on this sort of
thing are all speculative, but I have recently been toeing the edge of the cliff that is self
epublishing and all that fun stuff with trepidation.
- too impatient to get the work finished - too impatient to revise, re-edit and format - too impatient to await sale evolution - too impatient to market work - too impatient for «accolades» The great
thing about
epublishing is that all these issues can be worked on indefinitely.
The next
thing is to treat
epublishing like a business, because it is.
I had been writing weekly episodes of «New Adult» fiction (again, before New Adult was a
thing) and heard about Kindle's new
epublishing platform.