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eBooks are my thing so let me save you time and energy: Format it for Kindle and sell it via Amazon, PERIOD. That's where people go to buy eBooks, period. The
by mikecane 16y ago
eBooks are my thing so let me save you time and energy: Format it for Kindle and sell it via Amazon, PERIOD. That's where people go to buy eBooks, period. They have at least 80% of the market and it's not worth it to try to fight that. Most of your customers are bound to have Kindles too.
- dwc 16y agoDo you have advice on publishing elsewhere in addition to Amazon? Specifically, are there exclusivity restrictions that must be negotiated away, etc.?
- mikecane 16y agoThe only exclusivity Amazon demands is price-matching. You can't sell it lower than Amazon, period. You can still put it at Barnes & Noble, if you want, or the iBookstore. Note those are ePub, not Kindle, formats. But if either of them drop the price, Kindle will too.
- dwc 16y agoHey, that sounds quite reasonable. Thanks.
- jmeyers 16y agoExcellent idea, it never occurred to me to try and sell this on Amazon. I think in the spirit of "bootstrapping" this would be step 2 or 3 on the list due to the start up costs.
- ScottWhigham 16y agoIt never occurred to you to sell your ebook on Amazon? I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything but whoa.
- jmeyers 16y agoNo offense taken. I will be the first one to admit that I don't know everything. It never occurred to me, in part, because I had misconceptions about the barriers to entry. Those misconceptions have been corrected because of this post. Simply put, I thought it would be more expensive to publish on Amazon. :)
- mikecane 16y agoYou were probably thinking of print, not eBook.