Ultimately, if your intention is to
sell printed versions of your book, you should strongly consider hiring a professional cover designer.
Regarding printing your books, Amazon's CreateSpace is revolutionary for self - publishers who want to
sell print versions of their books.
Not exact matches
I'm doing this with the release
of my
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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.
According to the terms
of the deal with Simon & Schuster, Locke — a 60 - year - old former businessman who says he became fascinated by the e-book revolution and decided to start self - publishing fiction in 2009 — will continue to publish and
sell his e-
books himself, under his own imprint (John Locke Books), but printed versions of those books will be marketed and sold by Simon & Schuster through its distribution
books himself, under his own imprint (John Locke
Books), but printed versions of those books will be marketed and sold by Simon & Schuster through its distribution
Books), but
printed versions of those
books will be marketed and sold by Simon & Schuster through its distribution
books will be marketed and
sold by Simon & Schuster through its distribution arm.
Following in the footsteps
of Barnes & Noble,
Books - A-Million announced they will no longer
sell print versions of the 100 graphic novel titles that DC plans to release exclusively in digital form on the new Amazon Kindle Fire next month.
He predicts that within a decade, fewer than 25 percent
of all
books sold will be
print versions.
As an indie author, I'm forced to create and
sell two identical (same - ISBN)
versions of each
print book: 1) A CreateSpace -
printed version to
sell online at Amazon (but no extended distribution) 2) A LightningSource -
printed, Ingram - distributed
version for Barnes & Noble retail stores, indie bookstores, and the like.
Another reason your trad pubbed
books may
sell well in
print versions is because there are lots and lots
of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 %
of total — and many
of them prefer
print, or to find reads in physical locations.
Google recently struck a deal in France, where they will
sell digital
versions of out -
of -
print books.
This contest is only for the
print version of your
book sold via the Notion Press Book Store, Amazon.in & Flipkart.com Books sold via other channels, International & eBook sales will not be considered for the cont
book sold via the Notion Press
Book Store, Amazon.in & Flipkart.com Books sold via other channels, International & eBook sales will not be considered for the cont
Book Store, Amazon.in & Flipkart.com
Books sold via other channels, International & eBook sales will not be considered for the contest.
Amazon customers are buying Kindle digital
versions of the top 10 best -
selling books more than twice as often as
print copies, the online retail giant said Monday.
Get an ebook
version of your
printed book to
sell at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
For purposes
of this Final Judgment, the term E-
book does not include (1) an audio
book, even if delivered and stored digitally; (2) a standalone specialized software application or «app»
sold through an «app store» rather than through an e-
book store (e.g., through Apple's «App Store» rather than through its «iBookstore» or «iTunes») and not designed to be executed or read by or through a dedicated E-
book reading device; or (3) a media file containing an electronically formatted
book for which most
of the value to consumers is derived from audio or video content contained in the file that is not included in the
print version of the
book.
In another first, Baen started Webscriptions, which were serialized
versions of its
books at reduced prices, which were
sold 3 months in advance
of print publications.
It's certainly possible to make a living
selling only ebooks, and ebooks are attractive to self - publishers for a lot
of reasons, but there are still several good reasons to publish
print versions of your
books as well.
Now, all my
print - only
books are ebooks on pirate sites, even though Amazon told me that it never
sold any
of the illegally created «ebook»
versions of my work (except to me) if Amazon lied to me, and if Amazon allows people who illegally bought illegal copies
of my works which were created in violation
of my copyrights (and for which I was never paid any royalties) do you think those re-sales will be legal?
Finally, despite a reduced tax percentage for
books, e-
books are categorized as software downloads; a
print version of a
book would be
sold at a VAT rate
of 7 percent but an e-
book download
of the same
book would be taxed at 19 percent.
In
print publishing, proofreading means reviewing a «proof,» which is a test
version of a
book that's
printed in one or two copies before
printing thousands
of commercial copies to
sell to the public.
Marvel Comics announced on Friday that it will begin
selling the digital
versions of their comic
books the same day as their
printed counterparts.
One way you can use Kindle Matchbook as part
of a promotion campaign, is the ability to offer a free Kindle
version with every
print book sold.
Sign number four that it's time to publish a
print version of your Kindle
book is that you want to
sell more
books.
That said, the overnight success
of the
book is a welcome boon for booksellers at a normally quiet time
of year — most are
selling the
print version for # 17.00 with just a # 3 discount (the Kindle
version is retailing at # 13.99).
Publishing Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson talks at length about market share, the economics
of creator - owned comics, fallout from the prolonged legal battle between Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman, and retailer concerns about simultaneous
print and digital release
of The Walking Dead: ``... I was honestly a little thrown by the sheer amount
of invective generated by the day - and - date release
of a single Image digital title,
sold at exactly the same price point as the
print version of the
book.
The
books are full indie, but the author insisted on a
print version as she typically
sells her works at cons in addition to her main venue
of Amazon.
Amazon
sells the
printed version and Kindle
versions of my
books at a discount, but I just take Amazon's price to be the actual street price.
The offer only makes sense because Amazon
sells both
print and digital
versions of books.
Whether you want to
sell print copies to bookstores, or you simply want an e-
book with the possibility
of making a
print version in the future, POD services offer you the most flexibility in your
book distribution.
It's the other terms
of the deal that he was swayed by: for example, the fact that Amazon was going to come out with an e-
book version within a matter
of days after the
book was finished, and then follow that quickly with a paperback — and that both were going to be
sold at a cheaper price, instead
of the traditional industry's approach
of trying to charge
print prices for electronic
books.
When designed properly, the
sell sheet is just like having a
printed version of your
book's webpage.
No, not erotica, although that's not a bad idea — the
print version of EL James's originally self - published Fifty Shades
of Grey
sold 100,000 copies in its first week in the UK, becoming the fastest -
selling book this year.
Here's a
version of that definition from Writer's Digest: «Traditional
book publishing is when a publisher offers the author a contract and, in turn,
prints, publishes, and
sells your
book through booksellers and other retailers.