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.
We've previously mentioned that Amazon followed the console business model, of selling hardware cheap and recouping its losses by selling content, when it came to the Kindle Fire and one of its methods of making money is
from eBooks sold on the Kindle bookstore.
The top selling self - published authors earn most of their money
from ebooks sold on Amazon.
I agree completely with Jackie Barbosa above in that the real takeaway from this snippet of data is the unconscionably huge portion of earnings that the trad pubs get
from each ebook they sell.
Editor of TeleRead Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11 Even if all the publishers remove DRM
from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I would bet the vast majority of Amazon Kindle customers would go right on being Amazon Kindle customers, just because it's so easy to tap the button and start reading the book.
Not exact matches
For example, if you're
selling an
ebook on how to build an ecommerce business
from scratch, don't describe it as «containing templates you can use to plan your business.»
You can write
eBooks on diverse topics, and earn passive income
from selling them to millions of people on the Amazon kindle platform.
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I have some interest
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selling various products like
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Apart
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The
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If you terminate this Agreement, we will cease
selling your
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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.
If you have your own website, you can
sell your
eBook from you own site as a simple download.
The site uses technology
from US firm OverDrive, and
sells OverDrive's collection of
ebooks with Australian or global rights.
The potential revenue comes
from selling the newsstand package or
ebook catalogue to enterprises such as cafes, restaurants, banks etc, and not the beacon device itself.
«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.»
Earlier this year, Google set January 31 as the date that the Google
eBooks catalog and the ability to
sell Google
eBooks would be removed
from all reseller sites.
Back in January, B&N CEO William Lynch told the AP in an interview that the company was considering spinning off the
eBook business
from the traditional book -
selling business.
It doesn't
sell books directly, but offers books
from authors that are available through major
ebook retailers and devices.
Well Amazon
sold e-readers and
ebooks at a loss
from 2007 to 2011 to build a customer base.
But does the typical self - published author with two
ebooks on Amazon stand to benefit
from selling his books through his own website, also known as the online equivalent of setting up a sales booth
from the back of their car?
Authors typically are paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %) of the sale
from their
ebook or agree to a flat fee
from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless of the number of books
sold.
The company operated under an anti - piracy / pro-book access model that licensed
ebooks from publishers to be
sold via photocopy shops across various regions in Africa.
Everything an author needs is here —
from the means to
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ebook to Kindle, to advertising the right way to get readers.
I've heard figures
from big publishers stating that many new releases
sell more
ebooks than print books.
It is possible to see the foundations of the modern
eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open
eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core
selling points of the original Kindle.
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.).
Barbara Freethy reports that one million indie - published
ebooks have been
sold from Barnes & Nobles
I saved myself
from buying expensive best -
selling ebooks that way.
eBook Services — Are you interested in converting your titles to
eBooks or
selling eBooks from your website but don't have the time or resources to take this on?
It generates
eBooks as executables and is suited for those who want to produce information products to
sell from their websites.
No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you
sell an
ebook at an
ebook retailer, you can't take the book
from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book
from the retailer.
Pulley is a spinoff
from BigCartel, offering a simple shopping cart system for
selling your music, videos,
eBooks, fonts and other digital downloads.
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Selling your own
ebooks means that you can have more than one publisher — say, a UK and a US one — and
sell on behalf of both of them, meaning that readers anywhere in the world come to one site to buy their books, and the author takes care of figuring out which publisher gets the payment
from that purchase.
Stephanie Chandler is an author of several business and marketing books including «The Author's Guide to Building an Online Platform: Leverage the Internet to
Sell More Books» and «
From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books,
eBooks and Information Products.»
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.
Although we don't
sell direct
from our website, our
ebooks are available in multiple formats and only carry use restrictions when applied by the vendor.
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.
I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors
from publishing houses still
sell their
ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.
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.
International fees applied by Amazon to Kindle
ebooks sold to users
from abroad are a serious issue.
ADE talks to PDF files as well as EPUB files, so that's another thing you may wish to install if you're likely to buy
ebooks from larger sites (for example, Harlequin's
ebook store or the
ebooks sold by Powells).
The profit
from both can be used to build an improved e-reader, which can be
sold more cheaply, which then means more people will buy it and consequently buy more
ebooks, the profits of which can then go back into building even better, even cheaper Kindles.
Publishing industry statistics
from Nielsen, Bowker, et al who all rely purely on counting ISBNs are completely blind to this fact because of the simple reason that 37 % of all
eBooks sold on Amazon.com each day do not have an ISBN.
I self publish as a hobby, as I always have done, but it is becoming less and less fun now as the market has become saturated with rubbish
from all forms of publishing and the techniques being used now to
sell ebooks has become so intertwined with social media and spamming that any literary sense has gone out the window.
I did exactly what you outlined a few months ago with an old
ebook from a site I gave up on and the Kindle store has made more money off it than I ever did
selling it on Clickbank.
Chandler's website was receiving steady traffic and she became interested in
selling information products including
ebooks, special reports and workbooks, based on the knowledge she was acquiring
from her experiences.