Mark sets out step - by - step how the best
selling ebook authors do it.
Since you're one of the year's 100 best -
selling ebook authors, I wanted to ask: do you have any official pronouncement on what lesson we should learn from this year's best - sellers list?
This chapter features remarks by Eguild president Steve Lazarowitz and best -
selling ebook author Leta Nolan Childers that put to death many of the myths hounding the quality and availability of books printed in electronic bindings.
You are the best
selling ebook author.
Best -
selling eBook author Ryan made her successful print debut this year with this romantic suspense set on the Montana plains.
Not exact matches
He is the
Author of «How To
Sell Better Than Amazon» as well as over a dozen other
Ebooks and webinars.
Many
authors sell the hard copy but give away the
ebook version.
We focus on creating web content, social media, podcasting, creating courses,
selling online products and services and becoming an
ebook author.
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.
Read Book marketing and
ebook promotion tips for book
authors, book publishers, self - publishing
authors, and e-book publishers who want to
sell more books.
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Ebooks created using Apple iBooks
Author output to the Apple iBooks format — and can be
sold only through Apple.
It also works for publishers and
authors who want to
sell ebooks with Aerio.
To effectively reach the masses and connect with a large and diverse group of readers,
eBook authors should explore all options and
sell their books in as many places as possible.
Locke's latest book, «How I
Sold 1 Million
eBooks in 5 Months,» is a how - to marketing guide for self - published
authors.
In the latest sign of this disruption,
author John Locke — who earlier this year became the first self - published
author to
sell a million
ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.
YouPublish.com: Bestselling
author Mark Victor Hansen developed YouPublish.com, which allows
authors to publish and
sell their
eBooks without startup fees.
Last week, for the first time ever, a major
author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere
author of the # 1 best -
selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her publisher) to release the
ebooks directly.
For
authors who want to
sell eBooks and downloads, we've added a fixed $ 1.49 base price to cover our credit card processing and hosting expenses.
Last year Smashwords
authors sold ebooks worth $ 30 - million at retail.
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.
Denver - based Outskirts Press is stepping up to accommodate
authors wishing to publish and
sell books via a number of print and
ebook distributors.
Amazon - the - publisher makes offers directly to its own top -
selling self - pubbed
ebook authors.
If your book
sells, then a publishing deal is a natural progression for pure play
eBook authors.
For example, if you are an
author who wants to promote and
sell your own Book or
eBook, then you need to get an ISBN.
There are three times as many ereader devices now than just a single year ago, and Amazon has just announced that their own
eBooks now have eight
authors selling over a million
eBooks.
> Map out your writing empire, including all the things you love to do > Start setting up and implementing the systems and structures you need to support your empire (including an
author website, if you don't already have one) > Overhaul your writing life so you're aligned with and set up for the success you want to create > Get your nonfiction
eBook written and published (at least one, but possibly more than one, if you're up for it) > Grow your following >
Sell more books
Stay tuned — we're actively exploring many more features, including providing easy access to retail distribution channels with the goal of enabling Lulu
authors to
sell eBooks in every online marketplace.
It doesn't
sell books directly, but offers books from
authors that are available through major
ebook retailers and devices.
Hugh Howey and Friends (that really should be a trademarked superhero team name, as you'll see in a moment) has launched the sixth quarterly
Author Earnings report, a seemingly flawless look at how
ebooks are actually
selling on Amazon.
Our technology is used worldwide by 2 of the Big 5 publishers, some very large independent D2C publishers, several hundreds of medium sized publishers
selling D2C, quite a few independent
eBook web shops and also numerous web shops of smaller publishers, self publishing
authors and systems integration.
«This is an industry wide issue impacting retailers that
sell self - published
ebooks due to the explosion of self - publishing, which in the main is good as it gives new
authors the opportunity to get their content published.»
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.»
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.
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?
Authors typically are paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %) of the sale from their
ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless of the number of books
sold.
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.
The problem for Independent
Authors is that it removes a fundamental
selling point: that our
ebooks were cheaper.
As e-reader sales begin to increase this holiday season — an estimated 24.5 million units
sold according to IMS Research, which is expected to double
eBook sales year over year according to the Association of American Publishers —
authors have a great opportunity to capitalize on current reader trends and increase visibility for their works to new audiences.
Raleigh, North Carolina --(November 3, 2011)- Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today a new free pricing feature for
eBooks that enables
authors to
sell their digital content to their readers with a price tag of $ 0.00.
As XinXii is an European based company, we have to warrant two aspects: - we have to pay the German VAT to the tax office for each
eBook sold (19 %)- the VAT must be always included in the final price of all products listed on XinXii So after a sale, we have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the
author will get his percentage of the net price as provision / royalty.
Everything an
author needs is here — from the means to
sell your books to access to some of the newest books on the market, to submitting your
ebook to Kindle, to advertising the right way to get readers.
Good news for readers, but if the mainstreams are finally bringing
eBook prices down to what Independent
Authors have been
selling them at for a while, where does that leave the latter?
Amazon mentioned in an earlier press release that five fiction
authors, Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts, have
sold over 500,000 Kindle
eBooks each.
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Because the iPad's and Kindle Fire's full - color touchscreen and advanced
ebook capabilities are perfectly suited for the fixed - layout format, Apple's iBookstore and Amazon (for the Kindle Fire) are the only places where
authors and independent publishers can
sell fixed - layout
ebooks.
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.
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