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This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.

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I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.

He is the author of the bestselling ebook, The Truth about Six Pack Abs — which has sold over 1 million copies in several languages, as well as the best - sellers The Fat Burning Kitchen, Do This, Burn Fat: 101 Sneaky Fat Loss Tricks, and The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging.

And if you sell a bunch of ebooks — something you can do more easily if you self publish and control pricing — it's very easy to get a publishing deal quickly.

The publishers said they will «use a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of eBooks sold in each state» to determine amounts due, but did not specify how consumers will be reimbursed — by check, a discount on future purchases, or some other mechanism.

I'm doing this with the release of my Sell More Books on Amazon print book in fact, with the purchase of a print book I'll gift the eBook version to a friend or colleague of yours.

In Section 2, it does say that they will stop selling your ebook within 10 days of termination of the contract.

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.

eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 % of all books sold, which means the majority of the market is in printed books.

And your conclusion that 20 % of the top selling Amazon ebooks that have no ISBN are creating the perception that self - published books without ISBNs do not sell well, let alone can not be found, is a little of ironic.

That doesn't entirely explain how the ebook is distributed and sold to Kindle customers, but the site states that Amazon is one of the vendors authors can select.

«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.»

The author has to do all this themselves at their own expense, and in return Amazon will shaft them with a 35 % royalty rate (the 50 % you quote is NET, which is rich given the only place it will be sold is on Amazon, so Amazon will take their 30 % cut and then take another half of what's left) for an ebook.

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?

I sell my ebooks for $ 4.95, so the obvious price point for an eARC would have been something similar, but I didn't think it'd be worth my time to set everything up, email people (I mistakenly, didn't think of automation this first time around — more on that farther down), and deal with the inevitable «customer service» emails I'd get for $ 5.

Another comprehensive service to host your ebooks and it does all the hard work of selling them for you.

This is the most widely sold format by rival eBook stores and hopes are high to turn it into the MP3 of the eBook world — something Amazon's stance doesn't help.

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(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 auEbooks 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 auebooks - 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.

If you only plan to sell ebooks of your children's titles, and you only plan to distribute to trade ebook sites, then you don't need ISBNs.

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.

I don't know of one author that we haven't reverted when the license was up, assuming we were out or low on stock and only selling minimal amounts of ebooks.

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.

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 don't know that they'll ever come out with one that's compatible with all ebook stores until someone invents one independently of also selling books.

It would seem that Amazon is not content with controlling more than 50 % of the ebook market they also want to control the reviews and thereby control which writers sell and which don't.

Analysts in 2007 (if memory does not betray me) said that to be profitable Amazon had to sell an ebook at not less than $ 1.63 and Jeff Bezos announced only in 2012 that the volumes sales of ebooks finally turned the business into a profitable one.

Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their ebooks, and Amazon will pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money on Amazon right now.

The biggest «publisher» of self - published material by far is Amazon KDP, and, as noted above, it doesn't require or issue ISBNs for the ebooks it sells.

There are so many schools of thought on this topic, and essentially with little overhead, pricing an eBook at 99 cents and selling exponentially more than at $ 2.99 does have its benefits.

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

While some of the print book decline can be sheeted home to the Borders bankruptcy and the reduction of shelf space to sell books, this doesn't reduce the role of ebooks.

Joe Konrath is doing quite well with his ebooks in the Kindle store (he expects to be making $ 10K / month come July), but there are also unheard - of new authors selling thousands of ebooks a month there, too.

At its simplest, if you're selling your ebook, you must be doing so because you have the nerve — the wonderful, absolutely awesome, flipping - the - bird - at - the - odds nerve — that your work is worthy of a stranger's time and money.

In an interview with J - Source's Eric Mark Do, executives from paper said that they have typically only sold between 100 to 300 copies of each ebook they've published, priced at $ 4.99 apiece.

These niche microsites did not generate many sales, but it did establish an in - house division for the future of selling eBooks directly.

Overdrive does have a number of major companies still supporting ebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaeBook readers.

Not only does Pottermore sell all of the Harry Potter digital ebooks, but it also has an online world for Harry Potter fans to explore.

Statistically they don't sell a copious amount of eBooks, recently leaked investor slides show that in North America they are listed in the «other» category, which represent less than 4 % of eBook sales.

While ebooks did account for a substantial portion of his sells, he was still vastly outselling in print.

barnes and noble is not making new devices, they are doing it through Samsung Sony did stop selling eBooks and e-readers, Reading did decline for the most part this year, in terms of eBook sales overall not sure about e-ink and its doubling of market share, will have to ping

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would rather sell an ebook for $ 19.99 instead of $ 9.99, because Amazon offers twice the royalty amount for ebooks priced between 2.99 and 9.99, and lowers that royalty for ebooks priced beneath and above that range.

Audiobooks are certainly a growing market in Germany, but don't expect to sell very many of them if your ebooks aren't even selling yet either.

Some of this is sunk cost, some is ongoing, but unless you believe (as I do) that for now the best way to sell ebooks is to give them away in order to increase print - book sales, then there's no good reason to charge these costs to the ebook's balance sheet.

Suddenly the future of publishing, and the process of writing and selling ebooks, seems less stark than it did just days ago.

1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.

Most MG authors will tell you they sell as much (or more) in print as they do in ebook, but it's hard to move large numbers of print copies if you're not in bookstores (and with POD prices high relative to mass market print runs).

If you want more detail on what not to do, along with a lot of belly laughs (and some cringe moments now that the cat's out of the bag on the review debacle), go buy How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) for $ 2.99.

I shared the Amazon link to Facebook, and a few of my most enthusiastic friends purchased the eBook, but after the first announcement, I didn't sell many books.