Consider Self Publishing in EBook Format

y, more than ever before authors are presented withpublishing opportunities that have never existed before. This is not to understatethe hard work that authors have to go through to get recognition, write great books,and make a full time living from their passion of expression. However, it is to saythat today, due to advances in communications technology, authors can now get theirbooks distributed much easier than they could a decade ago. One very popular waythat authors are distributing their work is digitally through eBooks. Digital booksare gaining so much popularity that even some of the most popular authors in theworld have used it to distribute their books. Stephen King for example published Riding the Bullet exclusively in eBook format. When this eBook began distributionover Barns and Nobel and Amazon there was so much demand for the download that theservers of these two book giants slowed down almost to a halt. People that wanted todownload the eBook were put in a large queue with the hundreds of thousands of otherwho downloaded the eBook as well. It s not only big name authors that are finding success in eBooks. We at EBookArchitect have been helping authors create market and sell their eBooks online foryears now with great success. Many of these people are first time authors and areoften amazed with the success of their eBook sales. Below are some of their eBookwriting tips. Don t underestimate the power of the EBook EBooks are still looked upon as unpopular by many authors who have not yet taken thetime to learn about the success within this industry. For example, while thetraditional publishing industry growing at the sluggish rate of 5% a year thedigital publishing industry is growing at rates between 30% -50%. This means thatthe opportunities within the publishing industry are growing at a fraction of therate that opportunities within the digital publishing industry are growing. To set up an eBook you don t need to be a tech wizard Setting up your eBook from the idea conceptualization stage to the selling stagecan t be completed overnight but it is definitely something that can be done byanyone regardless of your technological background. If you can use a word processorthen you can create and sell an eBook online. While it is recommended you set upyour own website, it is not necessary. Setting up an EBook site is virtuallycostless and you keep 100% of the profits With traditional publishers you ll be lucky to see 10% of the profits from yourbook. With eBooks however, you keep 100% of the profits minus the fees required toset up the site which are minimal. Here is the fee breakdown for eBooks vs.traditional books: EBook vs. Book cost EBook = Free to create an unlimited number of copies Book = approximately $1500 for 200 copies of a 200 page soft cover book Rights and profit EBook = You keep 100% of the profits and rights to your eBooks Book = You get 10-40% royalty (usually about $2-$5/ book) With the above examples it is easy to see that for first time author s eBooks make alot of sense. The risk associated with publishing an eBook is much lower than it iswith distributing a soft or hard cover book. Likewise, as an eBook author you llkeep virtually all of your own profits. If nothing else, it is something worth consideration. EBooks may not replacetraditional paperback books, but they certainly are gaining popularity at a ratethat should make all authors stop to think about how they could use eBooks to theiradvantage.

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