E-book Publishing
Lately I have read several comments by other e-book authors saying that they have given up promoting their books because it is too much work and the payoff is just not worth it. Those people are authors. But they are not entrepreneurs. It is okay to just be an author and write your books, if [...]
In late August, I wrote a blog post titled The Importance of Setting Goals, in which I said that when I uploaded my first e-books to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore in late May, I had a goal of earning $300 a month from e-book sales within six months. The September sales report is in, and I [...]
I uploaded my mystery Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle program on Sunday, May 22, and by noon May 25th I had sold 100 copies. By the end of the month, sales topped out at 169, or an average of almost 17 books a day. Within a couple of days of uploading Big Lake, I uploaded [...]
I have made my living as a self-publisher for most of my life, and if I have learned one thing, it is that the writing is only part of the business, and it’s the easiest part. As in any business, self-publishing requires a knowledge of finance, marketing, and customer relations, just to name a few [...]