There's no word yet of which publishers will be likely to support Google Editions but it's hard to see Google having much trouble attracting publishers who will welcome more competition and Google's plans to
make ebook selling accessible to smaller players.
They can't
make ebook selling viable because they never really TRIED.
There are many different ways to
make your eBook sell.
I have received a lot of tips, suggestions and advice from this fantastic book on «
Make Your Ebook Sell Like Crazy».
Not exact matches
I get more excited over
selling an
ebook for $ 3 or getting $ 10 in Adsense revenue than I do
selling an apartment and
making $ 1,500 commission.
The thing that comes to mind first for me is that I remember reading about a guy who
made six figures
selling a $ 75
ebook on training parrots — if that can work, pretty much anything can.
Finally, remember also that if your
eBook takes off and
sells thousands of copies, this will
make your next book much more desirable for the traditional publishing houses.
-- Smashwords.com — a site for self - publishers that
makes it easy to create and
sell you own
ebooks in the epub format.
She
made international headlines by
selling over a million copies of her self - published books, primarily in
eBook format.
I'll
make you a simple (but awesome)
ebook cover that will
sell the book.
The other awesome thing about nonfiction
eBooks is that they're actually much easier to
sell than fiction, and you can
make more money overall, which can then allow you to fund your fiction writing efforts.
Though Amazon actually eats a loss of an estimated $ 18 for every Kindle
sold due to manufacturing costs and other factors, the company
makes up for it through sales of
ebooks and apps, RBC said.
So when a retailer discounts your
ebook and you don't
sell enough extra copies to
make up the difference, he is giving you an arbitrary pay cut.
In 2014, the United Kingdom
sold # 4.3 billion worth of books, with
ebooks making up 11 percent of that total.
Amazon - the - publisher
makes offers directly to its own top -
selling self - pubbed
ebook authors.
-- eReader.com —
makes and
sells ebooks for handheld devices, especially Palm and Pocket PC, also PC and Mac computers.
However, after five major publishers
made an agreement with Apple on
ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began
selling for $ 14.99.
To learn more about how this can benefit you and the method used to
make a book permafree, please read our How to Use PermaFree
eBooks for
Selling article.
Assuming an average
eBook price of about $ 4.99, and an average royalty rate of 60 %, let's say, you'd have to
sell about 1,400 copies every month consistently to
make a decent living, and I'm here to tell you that anything having to do with the sale of a non-essential product will never, ever be consistent.
They recently unveiled new tools that actually allow libraries to
sell eBooks and
make a commission.
They both were able to
sell their books as
eBook and hard copies if they chose to, they both
made lots of money off of their books, and they both were seen as authors by the people that bought their books.
First, there was JA Konrath's post with Hugh Howey on how to determine how many
ebooks are
sold, and how that information can affect authors in their publishing decision
making.
But unfortunately for the publishers, it also increases the likelihood that someone buys a self - published
ebook instead which now
make up almost 40 % of the
ebooks sold on Amazon: http://authorearnings.com/report/may-2015-author-earnings-report/
The recent announcement by the South African finance ministry that has
made it mandatory for all foreign vendors
selling ebooks in the country to register as VAT vendors has been applauded by the local industry.
Major companies such as Barnes and Noble, Sony, Kobo, and Amazon all
make solid revenue by
selling eBooks to phone owners.
The should be focusing on
making the
ebooks that they
sell be readable on the all devices, not just locked into their reader.
But what if it turned out that you could
make more money each month by
selling the
ebook at 99 cents instead of the $ 6.99 or whatever you thought it was worth?
You
make a profit of $ 2.34 when you
sell on Amazon.com; through your CS -
eBook sales page, you'll
make a profit of $ 4.34.
Resources like Lulu, the leader in self - publishing,
make it easier than ever for authors to take advantage of the great opportunities
eBooks bring to
sell more books and reach more readers — absolutely free.
SendOwl will appeal to anyone looking to
sell digital content, but it has a couple of features that will
make it particulalry appealing to those who want to
sell software,
eBooks and PDF files.
When you self - publish with IngramSpark, you have access to one of the publishing industry's largest global print and
ebook distribution networks which
makes opportunities to
sell your books that much greater.
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.
Made For Success Publishing has published business books,
ebooks and audiobooks since 2005 for professional speakers and executives with extraordinary stories, including best -
selling works from the late Zig Ziglar, John C. Maxwell and Chris Widener.
Since I'm getting close to holding a book in my hand, I'm now strategizing how to
make the highest profit
selling «Watching Their Dance» as an
ebook.
Digital Commerce Academy (DCA) helps you build the business of your dreams by teaching you how to create and
sell profitable digital services and goods (like
ebooks) without squandering time and money, stumbling to find the right path, or
making unnecessary mistakes.
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A self - published author could get printed copies,
make an
ebook, market online,
sell books by hand, everything.
and does the fact that a book on philosophy, poetry or science doesn't
sell millions mean that there is no value in
making the best possible
eBook possible?
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I
make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've
sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
We always
make sure our
ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly
sell a lot more
ebooks.
So, If the author earns $ 2.99 when his
eBook sells on Amazon for $ 2.99, how come the firm that
makes the bread doesn't earn $ 2.99 when his bread
sells in the supermarket for $ 2.99?
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.»
However, no matter what you
sell as an affiliate, having your own
ebook (s) as part of your overall business strategy
makes too much sense to ignore.
That is,
sell ebooks through an app for iPads and iPhones by taking customers to a web browser to
make those purchases (without also having an in - app purchase option).
We absolutely do not want to do this, but Apple has
made it completely impossible for almost anyone but Apple to
make a profit
selling contemporary
ebooks on any iOS device.
My experience is that the vast majority of
ebooks being
sold are novels... So, all those features don't really
make a hill of beans difference.
After all, they were using
ebooks to
sell high priced devices and even if they
make more money per
ebook sold it won't compensate them for
selling fewer units of the Kindle.
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.
I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can
make more
selling his
ebooks at $ 2.99 than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.
You can learn how to use this method for your own works by checking out our recent post on
Making More Off Your
eBooks by
Selling Them for Free.