15 eBooks + Paper. Any Advice On Distributing These? Amazon, Kindle, etc. + Misc Ques

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Long story short, putting together 15 ebooks around 150 pages each..

Have lander done, store done, covers/pages done, etc. Just need to buy a microphone and get 5 of these transcribed, plus have my writing team tackle 10 of them on their own.

But after that's done I'm curious to hear from you guys, what's the next best move here?

Going with CB for payment processing/affiliate management, (easy enough). But how about Kindle, Amazon, and the other 100+ ebook stores out there? Is there any easy way to do this, or anything I should know in advanced..

I found a company that will submit my books on like the top 20 big stores for around $250 each, so I'm looking at $3,750. Possible to do it myself cheaper I'm assuming... (These aren't the make $100,000 in 30 seconds type of books, these are REAL books).. So If I had to guess manual approval would be pretty easy I hope?

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Anyone have experience selling paper/hardcover versions as well? I'm holding off on that for a bit. That's $7,500 to get the all books printed, and after shipping, etc a $9+ profit each. I would love to do a small batch run though, just to test the market. (Print doesn't seem profitable like ebooks, the printing costs are crazy).

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Also any advice on the conversion, ie. Making the ebook work for Kindle, and other misc devices. I've seen companies charge for this, I'm assuming again I can do this on my own.

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Plan on doing paid traffic in volume too, etc. This is a massive project for me.. I have a TON of homework to do, but any advice is genuinely appreciated. If you want to reach out to my on skype shoot me a PM; I'd love to talk!

Thanks!
 


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The ebook store that does most volume by a mile is Amazon/Kindle. You can upload your books really easily via KDP. http://kdp.amazon.com

Bear in mind that to be 'kdp select' so you can do free or price promo's on the kindle store, requires that your books be exclusive to Amazon (ie not sold anywhere else for a period of 90 days).

Write your books using Scrivener and you can export them easily in formats such as epub and mobi [kindle]. SmashWords has published a couple of ebooks for free that cover things like formatting, worth reading.

If you're determined to submit your books to stores other than Kindle check out Smashwords. They don't charge flat per book but take a small % per sale. I can tell you that Amazon accounts for something ridiculous like 85%+ of ebook sales though (and its growing) so all the other hundreds of stores added together are unlikely to make or break your project. Start with Amazon.

Test with ebooks first on kindle and see how it goes. From that point its pretty easy to set all your books up with Amazon's POD service CreateSpace (and no inventory/upfront cost unless you opt for paid plan).

Right now though on fiction books around 65-70% are sold in ebook format, although this trend is currently about reversed on non-fiction books [diet, health, cooking etc are still predominantly sold physically].

HTH
 
edward_b said:
The ebook store that does most volume by a mile is Amazon/Kindle. You can upload your books really easily via KDP. http://kdp.amazon.com

Bear in mind that to be 'kdp select' so you can do free or price promo's on the kindle store, requires that your books be exclusive to Amazon (ie not sold anywhere else for a period of 90 days).

Write your books using Scrivener and you can export them easily in formats such as epub and mobi [kindle]. SmashWords has published a couple of ebooks for free that cover things like formatting, worth reading.

If you're determined to submit your books to stores other than Kindle check out Smashwords. They don't charge flat per book but take a small % per sale. I can tell you that Amazon accounts for something ridiculous like 85%+ of ebook sales though (and its growing) so all the other hundreds of stores added together are unlikely to make or break your project. Start with Amazon.

Test with ebooks first on kindle and see how it goes. From that point its pretty easy to set all your books up with Amazon's POD service CreateSpace (and no inventory/upfront cost unless you opt for paid plan).

Right now though on fiction books around 65-70% are sold in ebook format, although this trend is currently about reversed on non-fiction books [diet, health, cooking etc are still predominantly sold physically].

HTH
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Wow thanks man! Seriously. :)

Going to run with this advice, appreciate it. Checking out Scrivener and Amazon's Createspace now.
 
print?
depends on where you're headed. if its going to be the typical CB landers, then you're gonna be better off with just the ebook version (dont destruct the buyer with options). If its an authority site, offering print is a good idea, since it increases brand value (if you got a book in print, you're looked at more seriously). Plus ppl sometimes prefer printed books over ebooks (depends on the niche and mostly on age). There are services like lulu.com that handle all the printing and shipping. Price the printed version higher than the ebook, you might end up with same profit margin for both.

Another thing, I wouldn't go with CB for payment processing, unless leveraging their affiliate base is MAIN PART of your marketing plan. Last time (while ago though) I checked their fees where high. And just dropping it in the marketplace isnt enough to get affiliate sales.
 
nator said:
And just dropping it in the marketplace isnt enough to get affiliate sales.
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What are some of the best ways to get affiliate sales when placing a book in CB?


As for Amazon, as based on my experiences, the advice here is sound, but if you're going to use it, I suggest triangulation (Kindle, paperback, audiobook). ACX is good for getting books narrated on a royalty share basis if you're into that sort of thing. The royalties aren't great, but having your Kindle book as a physical book and an audiobook does seem to positively effect revenue of the Kindle book.

If going the Kindle route, you also want your books to have very special features that work in combination with the sales copy (don't put product descriptions in the product description but use standard sales letters).

PM me if you want to mastermind further and deeper on Kindle with some examples - I've done well there and would be especially interested in trading tips if someone could help me figure out how to get good affiliates sending traffic to Clickbank books. I'm doing my best to learn CB for a new product in my niche based on my Kindle success, but I'm floundering and worried that my efforts are going to come to very little because I don't know how to attract affiliates (yet).

In the meantime, I'm happy to help the OP with all things Kindle, CreateSpace and ACX. :costumed-smiley-087
 
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