If you have decided to sell your e-book on Amazon you should to know many following steps and specific Amazon publishing requirements. First of all:
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That .azw format requirements mean that your future audience ought to have a Kindle device to read your e-book, isn’t a big limitation for readers with other devices?
PDF for example opens in 98% of any devices because all it requires is to download their absolutely FREE reader and install on any compatible PC or MAC platforms. Despite Amazon, which requires to buy a whole physical device!
Another required legal procedure pertaining your e-book publishing is making sure that you will report your income from your business (book publishing is a sort of business) to the lovely IRS and pay the required taxes.
Now, here is the question, if you are going through all these procedures anyway, whenever you do, sell your e-book on Amazon or on CrackShitBookAss.com, does it make any sense to not sell it as self-publisher and self-distributor? What will you lose selling for your own?
Take on consideration that the vast majority of book readers and buyers are still prefer paper books to e-books, so you should to make paper book availability as an alternative variant.
For $200, you can also offer a paperback edition of your book on Amazon using print-on-demand technology, and Amazon will handle the shipping and customer service.
To get your paperback on the market, we would suggest that you open an account with Lulu Print On demand, Lightning Source Inc or other print on demand companies, which will print your book and supply copies to Amazon and other online retailers as the orders come in.
And, if your e-book has a strong demand from a customer, it will also be available for stocking e-book at brick and mortar chains like Borders and Barnes&Noble through the mentioned Lightning Source. If sales of your book really take off, you can lower your printing costs by switching from print-on-demand technology to offset printing and take all expenses in yourself.
Some Amazons odds
In 2006 Amazon stopped selling Microsoft Reader and Adobe-format books to focus on selling e-books through its wholly owned subsidiary, MobiPocket. The free MobiPocket Reader software allows users of PDA handheld computers to view e-books in the Mobipocket format.
MobiPocket books could be also sold through other online retailers. The promise, especially for self-published authors, is the potential to reach millions more readers at low cost. In addition to MobiPocket, Amazon offers another e-book option to its customers: “Amazon Upgrade” provides buyers with immediate online access and searching of physical books they’ve already purchased.
There is no downloadable file, but users can print a certain number of pages. To upgrade their books, readers pay about 10 percent to 20 percent of the book’s original price, and Amazon splits the revenue with publishers.
Amazon Upgrade is designed to appeal to buyers who want to receive a physical copy of the book, but are also willing to pay a bit extra for immediate online access and searching. Buyers view the book online through the Amazon Reader, the same interface used for Search Inside the Book.
Amazon hopes Upgrade will appeal to publishers concerned that online access to books might cannibalize sales of physical books, cutting publisher revenue. With Upgrade, any purchases result in added revenue for publishers, since readers have already purchased the hard copy.
To be eligible to purchase upgrades, readers must buy the book directly from Amazon. Upgrades aren’t available for books bought used or new from third-party Amazon vendors.
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