Here is my strategy: Because I have pride and confidence in my books, I won't participate in
giving away the ebook editions for either Kindle Unlimited or Kindle Select.
Unfortunately, by the time you're that successful,
giving away your ebook rights for a chance at paper distribution can be very costly.
In case you aren't familiar with this term or how if functions, DRM is intended to keep people from
giving away an ebook they have purchased.
While DRM can certainly be hacked, it does prevent the average user from
giving away your ebook file to someone else, or copying it and uploading it to a piracy website.
Giving away an ebook with every sale of a hardback would do wonders for the hardback market.»
In fact,
giving away your ebook is one of the best ways to gather reviews, and reviews are a tremendous factor in selling books on retailers.
I've always been a big fan of
giving away the ebook edition of a book because it builds buzz and leads to print sales (though it doesn't appear they made this available in print and I can not imagine why not!).
It retains the advantage of
giving away an ebook, but the book only lives on Pinterest.
Every week we will be
giving away an eBook for free or heavily discounted!
Simon and Schuster will be giving away ten autographed copies of Warm Bodies, and Zola Books will be
giving away ebook copies of the recently released prequel.
And we are
giving away an ebook from our website!
If your goal is to generate business with your book,
giving away the ebook version costs you nothing, yet can yield big rewards.
Whether
giving away the ebook version or a bonus with purchase, he is a master of building buzz with the concept of FREE.
So how is
giving away ebook content good for the industry?
Author, Pamela E. Cash is
giving away ebook copies of her urban fantasy series, Chausiku PLUS a $ 25 gift certificate to MAC cosmetics.
Many authors sell the hard copy but
give away the ebook version.
Another way to approach this business is to
give away your eBook.
Hugh's advice for publishers is to eliminate things that annoy him (non-compete clauses, length - of - copyright licenses, New York City offices) and to lower prices,
give away ebooks with hardcover purchases, and pay authors monthly.
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?
How Instafreebie works and how it differs from Bookfunnel, another service that can facilitate
giving away ebooks.
http://books.noisetrade.com/account/signup — NoiseTrade helps authors and publishers build their email lists by
giving away eBooks & audiobooks in exchange for email addresses and postal codes.
In order to demonstrate the capability, Autography was faced with either asking its authors to
give away their ebooks for free or taking orders for signed ebooks to be sold at a later date.
With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the cost to purchase and
give away the ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the ebook edition price of this title at $ 9.99, higher than the $ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered Books).
During these events, authors can
give away ebooks or print books to readers who have applied.
Give away an ebook to give readers an idea of your style.
Give away an ebook as a supplement to a current or upcoming book.
Give away an ebook with teaser chapters from a current or upcoming book.
Instead of giving away your old reads, you can
give away your eBook and request for a review.
You can't
give away an ebook, and you have to list your paperback giveaway either before it's released or within six months of its publication date.
In conjunction with The UPS Store and Toys for Tots, Storia will
give away an ebook to a child in need for every ebook parents purchase for their children between now and December 31st.
I know that many authors may shun this «
give away my eBook free» deal.
Indeed, one of the most creative - marketing author - marketer - speakers I am aware of, Seth Godin (to use an example of someone who is familiar to lots of bloggers) often
gives away eBooks because he knows they enhance his «brand» and will help generate revenue in other ways.
Most of my clients will
give away their ebooks as PDF files, so I aim to write around 2,500 words — around 25 pages.
Using a service like Smashwords, you can
give away ebook editions.
1)
Give away ebooks: As a self - published author, I can't afford to send physical books everywhere.
Every tour host can
give away an eBook copy of the book on their blog, and there will also be a...
Why discount or
give away your ebook for free?
Well, there is a way to
give away ebooks and that takes us to Events.
Again, I would
give away your ebooks for free until you have a marketing budget.
Five years ago, I called for publishers to do whatever it takes to gather data on their readers» habits, even if that meant
giving away ebooks or partnering with Amazon on every promotional opportunity they could (in exchange for some also - boughts data).
In this video, Seth Godin advises
giving away eBooks to gain readers.
While it may seem counter intuitive to
give away an eBook you are trying to make money selling, reserving a segment of your budget for giving away eBooks can actually help you improve eBook sales overall.
The first is, how effective is
giving away eBooks?
I've found so many wonderful authors who
give away their ebook publishing advice for free because they genuinely want to help.
There are a variety of tactics that work well for
giving away eBooks, but we like the following:
Costs There is a real cost to
giving away ebooks.
ALSO: We will be
giving away ebooks!
If you decide to sell or
give away your eBook files on your own website, it is important to give your consumers the information they need to load those files on their eBook devices.
The switch to digital reading is also transforming public libraries (http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/06/22/libraries-patrons-and-e-books/), but it seems that the ease with which authors can not
give away their ebooks on Amazon and other ebookstores is also likely accelerating the prevalence of ereading.
It just means that if KDP Select was useful for
giving away ebooks, it's even more useful if higher visibility comes with payment.