These camera features are all about physical products, not ebooks, and definitely
not ebook samples.
Not exact matches
Traditional publishers do this all over the place with
ebooks (and they don't always indicate that what you're getting is a
sample in their description).
Every entrant who doesn't win an
eBook giveaway will be offered the free
sample of the prize title as part of the experience.
Honestly, I won't usually buy an
ebook for more than 2.99 unless it's an author I know is great or I've read a
sample and it hooks me.
They have so much to offer that Kobo and Amazon can't, like take your Nook to B&N and
sample ebooks over coffee before you buy.
This leads budget conscious readers to lean toward
ebooks, particularly when
sampling a self - published work, they might
not be familiar with.
While I don't have explicit breakdowns of how many
ebooks I've sold via Amazon versus from iBooks — and bearing in mind that I'm a
sample size of exactly one — it's
not hard to read between the lines and see that Amazon is the overwhelming player in the market.
Amazon.com is far less stringent in their vetting of
ebooks, but they inadvertently let fraudulent titles slip through simply because they do
not wish to hinder authors through the upload process by making them wait for their content to be reviewed; Amazon encourages all of its customers to read the free
sample chapter before purchasing an
ebook in order to ensure it is an actual original book.
****» Unfortunately, the footnotes aren't included with the
ebook's
sample chapter — so there's no way to confirm when she's kidding!
Also, don't forget that almost all of our books have free
sample chapters available online and / or as
sample ebook downloads.
When I first published Sky High, I posted the equivalent of the free Kindle
eBook sample to Wattpad — which was a bit less than the first six chapters — so people could get a taste of my writing and the book, even if they didn't own a Kindle.
If you do
not have a free
eBook of some kind (e.g., 1st book in a series, short story, novella,
sample chapters, etc.), your following messages tend to be «buy my book» ads or senseless communication.
Authors should send us their
eBook manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single file: title page (if
not using a jpeg), copyright page, table of contents, other books by author, dedication and / or acknowledgements, foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), a statement announcing end of book and beginning of a teaser chapter (optional), the teaser chapter of next book (optional), statement saying «End of
Sample Chapter» with link where readers can learn / buy book, and author bio.
Online
eBook shopping in the Kindle, Nook, iBooks and Kobo stores would
not be as satisfying or functional without the ability to view a
sample of a book.
The
eBook stores are the ones that determine what we publishers can and can
not do when it comes to
sampling.
In addition to grammar check the following: The actual content of the book, formatting the book correctly so readers have a good reading experience, do
not have broken links in your
ebook, and setting up the layout of the book appropriately for free
samples.
That doesn't stop me looking for good ones, but I've become far more choosy than I originally was and generally won't bother with a book that has a poor description or has blatant problems on the first page; life's too short to spend ten hours hunting through a hundred
ebook samples to find one worth reading.
Why is it that I can subscribe to dog food for my three basset hounds but I can't subscribe to
ebook samples?
If there is no
sample chapter, I don't buy the
ebook.
To get a true view of how the finished
eBook looks, we recommend downloading a
sample to your ereader or ereader app, as the «Look Inside» feature on Amazon is
not accurate in its representation.
So if you plan to encourage your Tweeple to use #AmazonCart, you might mention that they'll only get a
sample of your
ebook —
not the whole enchilada.
Unfortunately, some online viewers, like the Amazon previewer that potential buyers use to read the
sample of your book, ignore this command and will post your scene break image at exactly the resolution of your original —
not the size you told your
ebook formatting program to use.
You're
not giving away all the book's key ingredients, but you're definitely providing readers with more value than they'll find in a typical
ebook sample.
Once you've established that direct relationship with the consumer and their Kindle account, why
not ask them if they want to opt in to receiving future related
ebook samples from you?
-- the cost of buying an e-reading device, a preference for the experience of reading a physical book, and a 31 % chunk of the surveyed
sample saying they «don't see a need» to read
ebooks.
To succeed, you
not only need some free
ebooks to giveaway as promotions /
samples / drawcards to your other work, but you have to have quite a few
ebooks also.
For example, why
not turn this into a way of delivering future
ebook samples directly to consumers?
Some
ebooks don't provide much in their
sample, some have several pages.
Another consideration is
not bogging down an
ebook with front matter, as it might impact the free
sample a potential reader gets to see.
The uploaded file should
not be a partial
sample, a
sample chapter, or a collection of
sample chapters, and all content submitted to
eBook Architects must be in its final form.
«What an author gets per copy is
not adequate to conclude that they make more money in total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly by low priced or almost free titles, so it is
not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money by using this
sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell
ebooks and printed books it could be a reason for the effect into the decreased market share that they have on Amazon.»
Not only do I have way too many
ebooks queued up, waiting for me to get to, I've got five times as many
samples of
ebooks I've downloaded and would like to read.
Keep in mind that
sample - giving is an excellent marketing tool, but it is
not allowed via your website if you want to sell your
ebook also in online stores.
So why
not let that customer opt in to auto
sample delivery of
ebooks that match their interests?»
A reader can download a
sample of your book, and if they don't like it, they won't buy the
ebook or any others that you write.
Finally, the third part is the hundreds of
sample resumes - please note, they are
not included in the
ebook (probably due to the high download cost if they were part of the Kindle file).