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Just as ereader devices revolutionized the ebook market, so have smartphones and dedicated MP3 players sparked a renewed interest in audio books. For the busy commuter or stay-at-home parent faced with tasks which require both hands, finding time to read a great book isn’t always an option. For enterprising self-published authors, selling audio books has proven to be a lucrative method of adding new revenue streams to their online businesses,…
You’ve written, edited, polished and formatted your ebook download, but you’re not making any real sales impact. If you’re one of the many self-published authors whose initial sales figures are lower than you hoped, don’t be discouraged; low product quality probably isn’t to blame. Even the best and most powerful novels will struggle in the online marketplace, and physical market, for that matter, if no one knows they exist. Before…
Once available through specialized retailers at high markups, audio books are far from a recent invention, though they’ve typically been the choice of a very small niche audience. With the advent of smartphones and high-capacity MP3 players, however, they’ve enjoyed a dramatic surge in popularity. Due to the wide availability of inexpensive audio editing programs, they’re no longer prohibitively expensive for the small business owner to produce. For the self-published…
Whether it’s advice for finding a traditional publisher or helpful hints about the self-publishing business, it can often seem that fiction authors are more frequently offered assistance on the Internet. Though fiction, especially genre fiction, is still exploding in popularity as ebook downloads due to the prevalence of tablets, dedicated ereader devices and smartphones, there’s a healthy market for non-fiction manuscripts. If you’re a non-fiction author researching the best methods…
While ebooks have existed in some form since the earliest days of the Internet, the ebook download has become one of the hottest and most potentially profitable products of the decade. Though there are a variety of factors which contribute to the explosion in ebook sales, the advent of dedicated ereader devices and smartphone apps specifically designed for reading are among the most influential. Getting Started in the Ebook Download…
One of the most attractive aspects of an ebook is the ability to easily and conveniently purchase, share and load files into a dedicated ereader device. Unfortunately, the same ease of sharing which makes these products so appealing can present a great potential for loss and piracy among authors. Content creators who sell digital downloads must make a point of familiarizing themselves with the most popular methods of content protection,…
Your manuscript may be one of the most polished and best executed entries to the market of the decade, but it won’t sell if readers aren’t aware of its existence. In order to make money, establish your brand as an author and begin to cultivate an authorial career, you’ll need to focus on not only your writing and editing skills, but also your ability to market your work to foster…
Finishing a novel requires an enormous amount of dedication and discipline. Unfortunately for authors who wish to pursue traditional routes of publishing, however, the work is only just beginning after a manuscript has been completed. Many successful authors spend years or even decades receiving a flood of rejection letters before their first novels are picked up by publishers, only to relinquish a substantial portion of the profits and creative control…
