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Current Nano Counts: Day 1: 9629 Day 2: 5121 Total: 14750 I’ve often said that lower priced or free ebooks can be a good idea, if there is a plan behind them. Lowering a price or making an ebook for free based on emotions (“I’m a new writer”, “No one knows me.”, “I only have [...] This is a little late from the big announcement, but better late than never. There are more Author Central’s to keep track of at Amazon. The first three, US, UK, and Germany I discussed in this post. Now we have two more to add: Japan France Please see the other post for advice on how to [...] On Tuesday October 4th, Smashwords announced that the Apple iBookstore was expanding Smashwords ebook distribution into 26 more countries. This is very exciting news, as these markets are largely untouched when it comes to the ebook revolution. As time goes on they could start to make up a larger and larger percentage of sales. Added [...] The stress of my move might as well be a good thing to my readers. So, moving sale! Until the move is over and I’m back online, I am putting the following items on sale: Smashwords: “Night of the Aurora” – Is free! When Zach Callahan and his father, Hawk, arrive unprepared for a new [...] Ah, August. Heat-wave, sick, and add on top of it the traditional book-publishing summer slump. I went into August figuring that any sales would be a wonderful surprise. Don’t expect anything. Just be happy with anything you get. And I was very surprised. July is technically a part of the publishing summer slump, but for [...] There are a lot of ebook formats out there. Epub, Mobi, Lrf, and so on. Epub and Mobi are the big ones, backed by Barnes & Noble and Amazon respectively. Not all of them can stand forever. And now one has fallen. Yes, this reminds me of the VHS/Betamax, Blue-Ray/HD DVD wars. The .Lit format was [...] And now we continue analyzing the objections to Smashwords. The main complaints? I sell way more at Amazon with Kindle! Quarterly payments are too slow. Slow sales (for most) Meatgrinder woes! Premium Distribution is too hard to get into! Premium Distribution sales numbers come in too slow. The first three we went over last week. Now [...] I promised a post about Smashwords and here it is! A word of warning: this turned out to be a little long, but there’s a lot of information to cover. So much so that I had to split it up into two posts. Smashwords. The ebook etailer and distributor that either has authors/publishers smiling or [...] |
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