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.
Excellent 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.
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. :)
The 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.
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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. 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.
Excellent 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.
It never occurred to you to sell your ebook on Amazon? I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything but whoa.
No 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. :)
You were probably thinking of print, not eBook.
Do you have advice on publishing elsewhere in addition to Amazon? Specifically, are there exclusivity restrictions that must be negotiated away, etc.?
The 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.
Hey, that sounds quite reasonable. Thanks.