If you have decided to go the route that is harder but makes you
more money than doing it by yourself is the way to go. Though you must keep in mind that some sites
only allow aggregators to publish their books (ex Smashwords), like the Sony
store. If you’re American you’re in
luck, you can publish (if you have the patience and requirements) at the
iBookstore, Amazon.com is A LOT easier, and you can use PubIt! to publish on
Barnes and Nobel.
There is only one way to not take a loss and that is to have
customers purchase your ebook off your webpage.
Quite a few people don’t have their own website and even less know how
to throw a shopping cart on it. I have
my own webpage, but I don’t see the sense in making a shopping cart. You might be asking yourself, why wouldn’t
you want to make a 100% profit? My answer: Nobody knows who I am. why would
they go to my site and buy me ebook?
I think having your own site and own checkout is a great idea, but
if you’re not established I don’t see it generating much income. If you’ve
released a few ebooks and they are doing well then I would definitely consider this
option and promote your website to your readers. Ex, put your website at the
end of your ebooks, develop a fan page on facebook and tell your readers where
to find your ebooks.
Now you have to decide where you want to release your ebook, the
best thing to do is to release it on as many sites as possible. Please see my
previous post for all the sites you can release it on.
Some tips:
Release your ebook for .99 cents (I know who wants all their hard
work to get them less than a dollar, I sure don’t!) BUT people are much more
likely to give an author they never heard of a chance for .99 cents. Don’t fret though, you could set a goal for
yourself like, if I sell 2,500 books I’m going to start selling my ebook at
$1.99, and if your sales don’t drop after the price change you might say to
yourself, if I sell 10,000 I’m going to change it to $2.99, etc, etc. I wouldn’t go any higher than $3/4.99.
An Important thing to remember is once you start selling your
ebooks don’t hike it up right away, you could deter people and then get less
reviews than you want. I am a strong
believer in reviews if I see a book released with 300 reviews compared to one
with 3 I am more likely to look at the 300 reviewed one, aren’t you? SOMEONE out of those 300 is going to have a
well detailed opinion, and we humans are drawn by popularity. We would trust a
4 star book with 300 reviews than a 5 star book with 3 reviews?
The more popular your book is the more popular it will become,
period. So don’t cut your books growth
short too soon by hiking up the price to make a few extra dollars.
Option two (if you didn’t like the last option you’ll like this
one even less) release your ebook for free and when it gets popular (set a goal
for this two like maybe 10 reviews or 1,000 downloads or maybe just free for
the first 2-4 weeks) start selling your ebook.
If you peeps have learned anything from my site, if it’s free I give it
a go!
Next Wednesday: I'll be talking about converting you .doc to other files.
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