A very famous strategy that authors can distribute their passion through their books is a digital method using ebooks. Digital books today are improving and getting so much popularity that authors across the globe are utlizing it to distribute their books. Stephen King for example published "Riding the Bullet" exclusively in digital format ebook. When this was started over Barnds and Nobel and Amazon.com there was a huge demand of d istribution through downloads that even servers of this two giant marketplace slowed down. Readers who wants to download the ebook are place in a large queue with hundreds of thousand of other ebooks that were downloaded.
Not just big famous authors that are finding success in dealing with ebooks. Book Art Press have been helping new authors create, market and sell their ebooks online for years now with excellent success. A lot of this are new authors and are amazed with the success of their ebook sales. Next paragraphs are some tips on how they do their ebook writing.
Never Underestimate The Greatness Of The Ebook
Ebooks are still overlooked by several authors who haven't taken time to learn about the success within the industry. For example, traditional publishing industry grows in a sluggish rate of 5% a year; the digital publishing industry is dramatically increasing between 30% - 50%. This means that opportunities in publishing industry are increasing within the digital publishing industry are growing.
Setting Up An Ebook Doesn't Need A Tech WiZard
Setting up your ebook base on conceptualization to selling stage is not an overnight job but it is definitely something that can be completed by anyone regardless of your technical background.If you can use a word processor then you can create and sell the ebook online. It is recommended to set up your own website, it is not necessary. There are different channels such as amazon, eBay and lulu that will allow you to post eBooks.
Setting Up An Ebook Landing Page is costless and you keep 100% of the profits. Traditional publishers are lucky to see 10% profits from their book. However, with coordinated eBook publishing, you can keep 100% of the profits minus the fees required to set up the landing page. This is a possible breakdown for eBooks vs traditional books that commonly happened:
Ebook vs Book cost
Ebook = Free to create an unlimited number of copies
Book = Approximately $1500 for 150 copies of a 150 page soft cover book
Rights and profit
Ebook = You keep 100% of the profits and rights to your ebooks
Book = You get 20-40% royalty (usually about $2-$5/ book)
Base on the above figures, it is easy to see first time authors ebooks make a lot of sense. The rish connected with publishing an ebook is much lower risk compared to distributing a sofot or hard cover book. Likewise, as an author you'll keep virtually all your own profits.
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