Most ebook authors don't make a living doing this, they have other jobs, they have families who need their time, some barely make enough on their books to cover the cost of filing a tax return on their earnings.
The payout percentages for audiobooks are generally much lower than the 60 - 80 %
most ebook authors earn.
Not exact matches
Instead of accepting the 25 percent royalty that
most authors take for
ebook sales, she now keeps ALL the royalties for Harry Potter
ebooks and audiobooks.
For 5 days only, 27 prominent Healthy Living
authors have joined together to bundle 34 of their
most popular
eBooks, valued at just over $ 300, for the incredibly low price of $ 29.
Zach co
authored the
ebook «Grip Experts» and hosts the
most passionate show dedicated to old school strength training which can be found at Underground Strength Show.
Marina Smiley is the
author of some of the
most popular
eBooks about Russian - Western marriages.
«Home Free Christian Dating Site» - it's the title of the site.The
most important text on the main page - «Membership on Free Christian Dating Site», «Tips for members of Free Christian Dating UK», «THE ULTIMATE LOVE STORY», «Free Christian Dating», «Welcome to Free Christian Dating», «Free Christian Dating Site», «My letter to Christian Carter
Author of
eBook «Cat...», «Christian dating sites».
Guest: Barrett Solberg (Razr) is a Certified Relationship Coach and
author of the
eBook, Revealing the Secrets to the Greatest Ice Breaker Ever, a breakthrough book to help get guys on the path to the
most fulfilling relationships possible.
This
ebook, «The power of security and cloud - based
authoring tool features», explores the importance of cloud - based
authoring tools, why the software is so secure and how to get the
most from a SaaS - based eLearning
authoring tool.
As a reader I can honestly say that
ebooks priced between $.99 — $ 5.00 seems to be a very fair price and is guaranteed to suit
most people's budget as well as providing a profit for the
author.
For the
most part, sites that display free
ebooks do so to assist
authors who are offering free books through Amazon, we allow you to post ANY bookseller your book is free or discount priced at.
It is true that there are many more
eBook stores than the four majors but generally speaking they represent a small fraction of all sales for
most authors, and especially new
authors.
So, we're throwing a good old - fashioned
author sales contest for Download Day and the
author who sells the
most copies of their
eBook on December 26th, 2011 — even if you sell your
eBook for free — will win a Barnes and Noble NOOK and $ 100 off coupon good for anything on Lulu.
«We recommend the Microsoft Word path as the best option for
most fiction and narrative non-fiction
authors because it's the easiest method to produce high - quality
ebooks that are readable on any e-reading device.
$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more
most traditional publishers are charging for
ebooks, but as an Indie
author, I want to make sure to keep a handle on what my readers are expecting and willing to pay.
What I want to focus on is another illusory belief among some
authors — and
most of these are self publishers — that
eBooks is the exclusive way to forge ahead in publishing.
«We are delighted to work with Scribd and Oyster to offer this exciting new model for readers to find and read
eBooks, and to do so in a manner that respects the value of our
authors» creative endeavors and supports our mutual goals of selling the
most possible copies of their books.»
It didn't take long after the launch of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription service for the outcry to begin, but unlike other criticisms the retail book giant has weathered, this one came from its
most staunch supporters: self - published
authors.
Thousands of self - published
authors release new
ebooks every single month and
most get lost in the shuffle.
The
most important reason to buy Indie
Author ebooks is the majority of what readers spend actually goes to the author rather than to a publishing conglom
Author ebooks is the majority of what readers spend actually goes to the
author rather than to a publishing conglom
author rather than to a publishing conglomerate.
It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published
authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to
most traditionally published
ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
New free
eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published
authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usageRaleigh, NC, September 13, 2011 — Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the launch of the free Lulu EPUB Converter, a tool allowing content creators to convert popular word processing formats, such as a Word document, into sellable EPUBs, the
most widely adopted format used by eReaders.
-- The
most frequently nominated format for works published in the previous year is a print book by a traditional publisher (44 per cent of
authors), followed by an
eBook by a traditional publisher (34.3 per cent).
The top selling self - published
authors earn
most of their money from
ebooks sold on Amazon.
Independent
authors and Amazon - imprint
authors sell more
eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that
most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.
Most authors need at least two ISBNs: One for the print book and another for the
eBook.
Most indie
authors are making 95 % + of their earnings from their
ebooks.
What I really wanted to title this post was here are five ways a print - on - demand book can help an
author make more money than if they published only an
eBook, and CreateSpace is the easiest and
most pain - free way to produce a book in print.
Download Mark Coker's Secrets to
Ebook Publishing Success, a free ebook that reveals the 29 best practices of the most commercially successful Smashwords aut
Ebook Publishing Success, a free
ebook that reveals the 29 best practices of the most commercially successful Smashwords aut
ebook that reveals the 29 best practices of the
most commercially successful Smashwords
authors.
I find it curious that the
ebook royalty rate is 50 % for direct sales, lower than the 70 % rate
most self - published
authors get for their e-books on Amazon.
Tools like the Lulu EPUB Converter turn an
author's document into an
eBook that can be sold and read on
most e-reader devices.
It won't be the first time a prominent
author has gone exclusive for an
ebook reader — Stephen King's Kindle arrangement is probably the
most notable example — but those deals often had planned hardcover versions coming out eventually, and didn't include the multimedia aspects that A Singing Whale will.
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.
Most authors find this promotion highly effective, since it's going to a list of people actively looking for new
ebooks to read or purchase.
One of the biggest mental roadblocks
most would - be
authors encounter sooner or later in creating their own
ebook is wondering whether they have enough experience to actually write an
ebook or not.
Most definitely yes, but the beauty of
ebook publishing for an
author is that we can adapt and respond — we can roll with the changes.
The
ebook gold rush of 2009 to 2012 generated a lot of revenue for indie
authors, such as Hugh Howey and Joe Konrath, but
most of that success came before Kindle Unlimited's somewhat more challenging earnings environment.
Through Lulu's distribution partnerships, print - on - demand, and
eBook technologies,
authors are able to best meet the needs of all their customers in the ways that make the
most sense for them.
Ironically,
most of his takeaways are things that weren't unknown to anyone paying attention a year ago, including the value of an email list; the importance of an
author's platform; the increasingly out - of - whack signal: noise ratio in the market; print as premium product; the power of free promotions combined with targeted marketing; and, perhaps the
most obvious,
ebooks have a long way to go before they replace print.
It provides
authors and editors with one of the
most efficient
eBook protection system, and makes
eBook publishing easy and accessible to anyone.
Smashwords makes it easy for any
author in the world to upload a finished manuscript and instantly e-publish as a multi-format
ebook to
most of the major
ebook retailers.
In the present system,
authors can sell physical and
ebook rights to various territories, garnering better money for their work than what might be offered by
most publishers for world - wide rights.
ISBNs are only required for print books, though
most authors choose to buy them for their
ebooks as well.
The
ebooks that I've
authored and published about self - publishing and presentations are available Slideshare; the
most popular is my Universal Pitch Deck
ebook.
News The Revolution Will Be Digitized A look at the
ebook conversion process of one of America's
most trailblazing
authors.
A Thriller Award nominee for Best
eBook Original Novel... Book 1 in award - winning
author Alexandra Sokoloff's riveting new Huntress FBI series about a driven FBI agent on the hunt for that
most rare of all killers: a female serial.
One of the
most useful tools an
author can provide to potential reading consumers is a dedicated
author page, usually available as a free feature from the
ebook distribution platforms that retail the books.
You also have to consider that
most authors» books don't cover the advances they are given and this
ebook profit helps offset that as well.
According to Bella Andre,
author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling LET ME BE THE ONE (The Sullivans # 6) and the upcoming COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER (The Sullivans # 7), due out this winter, «Cover art is one of the
most crucial elements for an
ebook to first, gain visibility, and second, sell well.
Authorgraph is a innovative platform where
authors can sign
eBooks digitally for both Kindle and
most other devices.