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Category Archives: OverDrive
You may have thought self-publishing ebooks was bad – try audiobooks…
(photocredit: Brett Jordan) The problem with audiobooks is Amazon – exactly why anti-trust laws were created. Amazon bought Audible. And got exclusive contracts with iTunes and others, such that they essentially are the only on-ramp to major distributors.(That’s called a … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon Kindle, iTunes, LibriVox, lulu, OverDrive, Podiobooks.com, publish
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What’s the difference between professional self-publishing digital products and everything else?
(photocredit: Sudden Fiction) There’s a gulf between pro and amateur audiobook distributors – to succeed, you have to prove you’re one and not the other. (Fourth in a series about audiobook publishing.) A review of iAmplify and OverDrive for audiobook … Continue reading
How to Make Higher Royalties From Your Books
Affiliate Book Sales can earn you even higher book royalties. Some tricks, though. The simple approach is to get your distributors to pay you affiliate sales fees on top of your royalties. None of them do it the same way, … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, iTunes, kobo, lulu, Missouri, OverDrive, Rakuten
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How to Post Your eBook to Multiple Distributors – Ease and Profit
(photo: Blythe) Sequence and Feeding of eBook Distributors – How to take it easy and make extra passive income meanwhile. If you’ve been following this series of articles, you’ll know that we are now up to about eight major distributors … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Calibre, GooglePlay, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, Nook, OverDrive
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Summary of Getting Started: Lists and Sequences
Tying it all together in a neat package means giving you a shopping list of stuff to do in what order. I. What distributors? Leanpub Lulu Google Play/Books iTunes Nook Amazon Kobo (OverDrive) This sequence is to get all possible … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, HTML, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, OverDrive, public domain, publish
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Leanpub Shows Their TImidity – Accepts Original Works Only.
(Logo property of Leanpub as trademark.) Just got suspended for “copyright violations” from Leanpub (on one account, anyway.) Means they don’t like public domain books. Scratch them from anything except original books. Which means they’re in the same category as … Continue reading
Posted in iTunes, kobo, LibreOffice, lulu, Nook, OverDrive, public domain, Smashword
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The “News” in Self-Publishing is all DIY, not “done-for-you”.
Self-Publishing is the new model which is far more profitable than traditional-publishing lock-step hobbles. (photo: eXtensionHorses) Hobbles are used on animals to keep them from wandering. They’re usually put on the (front) feet and are uncomfortable. The model for traditional … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, GooglePlay, iTunes, kobo, lulu, OverDrive, paperback, publish, publishing, writers
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Are there Professional versus Amateur publishers?
(photo: BiggerPictureImages.com) Is there a difference between “professional” and “amateur” publishers? Technically, no. There seems to be a quality point, however. Even if that quality point is arbitrarily inflated. Some people are just getting started in publishing, and others have … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, book, BookBaby, iTunes, kobo, OverDrive, Private label rights, publish
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Why Aren’t Authors Happy Publishing Their Book?
Most authors don’t make a lot of money from publishing… (Photo: Diana Brown) …and what they don’t know is killing them. I’ve done my own study of DBW’s author survey. In addition to their earlier year’s surveys, this also adds … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, E-book, Ebook Publishing, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, OverDrive, public domain, publishing
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How to Throw Away Perfectly Good Marketing and Make No Sales
What to Do When You Have Legacy Brand Mojo (Artwork: Wacky stuff) Public Domain publishing is profitable if 1) you take advantage of the brand awareness that already exists, and 2) you don’t do something stupid to make it undiscoverable. … Continue reading
How to Market Test Your eBook – Before You Port to Amazon
(Photo: Wikipedia) Test Your Book’s Sales Ability Before a Big Amazon Release Simple really: sell everywhere else first. Why? Because Amazon is known as the new book graveyard. That is why there are so many, many books written about how … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Goodreads, iTunes, LibreOffice, OverDrive, public domain, publishing, Shelfari
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