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> I sold 1000 on the first day Please tell us about your marketing and strategy. I'm amazed awk can shift so many. I'm also finding (with "Digital Vegan") tha

> I sold 1000 on the first day Please tell us about your marketing and strategy. I'm amazed awk can shift so many. I'm also finding (with "Digital Vegan") that independent ebooks are much better cash creators than paper sales. Brexit is killing me - I can't sell paper outside the UK any more.

bencollier49 4y ago
> I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. What is this down to? Export regulations? Could you use print on demand or something instead?
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Shipping and tax mainly. What I hope to put into readers' hands for about $15 ends up costing them $30-$40. Physical distribution still seems a mess for small publishers who are in that gap between full POD/Lulu type thing and working with a major brand. For example, many distributors won't take on business with publishers with less than 5 or 10 titles. Mine has 3, so is considered a "vanity press". Coordinating POD internationally is a PITA. So I use a smallish UK POD (Great British Bookshop) of my current project, and hold a few dozen myself mainly for mailing out to reviewers and press. Also, lots of distributors still operate on "store and forward", which means holding litho-printed stock (runs of 500+). I just can't be doing with that in 2022! I also recorded an audio [1] version, which has had precisely zero sales AFAICT, mainly because I have no idea how to break that market. Any podcasters here wanna give it a listen? shoot me a message, cheers. [1] https://digitalvegan.net https://digitalvegan.net
  - mprovost 4y ago
    Have you looked into Ingram Spark? They do on-demand global distribution. I'm considering it for my book once I finish the ebook and get around to printing paper copies.
- Lev1a 4y ago
  > > I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. > What is this down to? Probably producing locally and then exporting is prohibitively expensive.
- empiricus 4y ago
  I (living in EU) brought some RPi hats from some UK online store. DHL asked me to to print/sign/scan several docs, complete multiple forms, etc, and make a separate VAT payment. The process took almost two weeks.
pkrumins 4y ago
There was no marketing strategy. I wrote blog posts then merged them into a pdf and announced the book. My blog has 100,000 subscribers.

bencollier49 4y ago

> I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. What is this down to? Export regulations? Could you use print on demand or something instead?

nonrandomstring 4y ago
Shipping and tax mainly. What I hope to put into readers' hands for about $15 ends up costing them $30-$40. Physical distribution still seems a mess for small publishers who are in that gap between full POD/Lulu type thing and working with a major brand. For example, many distributors won't take on business with publishers with less than 5 or 10 titles. Mine has 3, so is considered a "vanity press". Coordinating POD internationally is a PITA. So I use a smallish UK POD (Great British Bookshop) of my current project, and hold a few dozen myself mainly for mailing out to reviewers and press. Also, lots of distributors still operate on "store and forward", which means holding litho-printed stock (runs of 500+). I just can't be doing with that in 2022! I also recorded an audio [1] version, which has had precisely zero sales AFAICT, mainly because I have no idea how to break that market. Any podcasters here wanna give it a listen? shoot me a message, cheers. [1] https://digitalvegan.net https://digitalvegan.net
- mprovost 4y ago
  Have you looked into Ingram Spark? They do on-demand global distribution. I'm considering it for my book once I finish the ebook and get around to printing paper copies.
Lev1a 4y ago
> > I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. > What is this down to? Probably producing locally and then exporting is prohibitively expensive.
empiricus 4y ago
I (living in EU) brought some RPi hats from some UK online store. DHL asked me to to print/sign/scan several docs, complete multiple forms, etc, and make a separate VAT payment. The process took almost two weeks.

pkrumins 4y ago

There was no marketing strategy. I wrote blog posts then merged them into a pdf and announced the book. My blog has 100,000 subscribers.