Whilst there are people making a good living from selling information products anyone who has ever created an ebook will attest to the fact that the writing of the ebook is the easy part. The harder aspect is actually marketing your ebook and getting enough “ready to buy” traffic to your ebook sales page in…
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The $114 Kindle: Amazon’s Low Cost Answer to Its Challengers
One thing that is inevitable in the digital arena is that competitors will more than likely take aim at you with devices of their own. This is especially true of Amazon’s Kindle. Challengers wanting a piece of the pie have announced products designed to compete in the digital reader market. Amid all this, Amazon softly…
Independently Published Author Sells One Million Kindle Ebooks
John Locke is the newest member of the “Kindle Million Club,” and the first independently published author to reach this milestone. As of June 19th, John Locke has sold 1,010,370 Kindle books using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors whose books have sold over 1 million paid copies in the Kindle…
Publishing Ebooks for Profit
Everyone is an expert. That is because each of us has knowledge and experience that is unique to us. You have knowledge from your chosen career or because of a favorite hobby, or you may have a combination of professional and personal experience that you can share with others for profit. A simple way to…
What’s a Book App and Should You Create One?
Book apps and eBooks are hot topics in publishing right now and a lot of writers and illustrators are trying to figure out what it’s all about. I believe the mobile device market is the biggest opportunity children’s authors, writers and illustrators have had to share their stories with kids this century. The market is…
E-Publishing Success Stories: Indie Ebook Authors Making Good Money
In ye olden days (five years ago), self-publishing was considered a last resort, a route authors took because they couldn’t get a traditional book contract. Today, many authors are choosing to go straight to self-publishing; they’re turning their works into ebooks (this includes novels, novellas, short story collections, and even short stories) and handling the…
Survey Says: Which Are More Popular E-books or Paperbacks?
CNN did an unscientific poll Sunday of more than 200,000 people who visited their website and answered the question: Which do you prefer: E-books or paperbacks? Given this was an online poll I would have thought e-books would run away with it. However, paperbacks won by an 80-20 margin! I have no clue. Most sales…
Dummies guide to publishing an ebook on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords
In this blog post I’m going to try and demystify the ebook publishing process. I’ve been through it and lived to tell the tale. So here goes. Stand by for a fun ride. It’ll be worth the trials and tribulations along the way! Ingredients: Book (preferably in .doc format) – see detailed formatting guidelines below…
Amanda Hocking is Not Lucky
Until August 2010, Amanda Hocking, 26, worked for ten dollars an hour at an assisted-living facility in southern Minnesota, near Iowa. The work was honorable and satisfying although writing novels in her spare time was her first love. Amanda finished her first novel at age 17 and over the next nine years, wrote 11 more….
Four Places to Advertise Your Ebook
We can talk all day about the importance of good writing/editing, good cover art, and good blurbs when it comes to selling ebooks, but obscurity is the toughest thing for us to overcome. Whether you’ve written a thrilling science fiction adventure or a manual on dog training, nobody is going to line up to buy…
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