For Kindle books priced from $2.99 to $9.99, you receive a 70% royalty on each sale. Now, you might think that pricing your book somewhere between $2.99 and $9.99 is the obvious way to go, as that will get you the most royalties. Working with an editor is the single best way to improve your book and your craft. Once you’re ready to submit your proposal, you can send it to the appropriate editor. I formatted my book myself using an easy-to-use piece of software called Vellum, which uses a simple WYSIWYG (“What You See Is What You Get”) editor. Using Amazon PPC campaigns for greater product visibility is a great way to increase your sales as it may display your book to potential readers who are searching for content that you write. You can publish your book without one, but if you do have one, you may enter it here. It’s hard to put up a book for free if it’s your only one, but when you have seven in a series, it’s not hard at all to put the first at permanently free (permafree), as I have done with Stone of Fire, ARKANE Isis book cover (visite o próximo post) 1. Consider the value to the customer.

These early reviews are important – you’ll need to have at least 10 reviews if you want to use book promotion sites during launch week. If you don’t have anybody buying your book or leaving reviews as soon as you publish, the chances of it taking off are slim to none. You have access to millions of readers. These types of services also mean that smaller businesses and startups that never would have been able to raise the capital to buy heavy-duty equipment and the necessary staff can gain quick access to computing power. → Multiple-channel distribution: These services act as middlemen and push your work out to multiple retailers and distributors. Amazon’s suite of services for independent authors makes it possible for me. Ghostwriters will reduce your effort to a bare minimum of talking and can cost a lot more in terms of cost, but they’ll do all the writing for you, and all you have to do is provide them direction. What does it cost to self publish a book? If all the text is mushed together, it’s full of syntax errors, or if it’s written in a terrible font, people won’t want to read your book.

If they don’t do it in this order, their reviews won’t be verified. Leading off with a bargain basement price won’t give you much wriggle room. I didn’t want to spend too much money until I knew the type of results I’d get. Modification will appear in the image search results. Use keyword tools such as Kindle Spy, Merchant Words, and KDP Rocket that provide data on how many people search certain keywords. You want to match your keywords with the terms readers will typically type into the search box. No one wants to waste their time writing a book nobody will want to read. Now, the key thing to understand when writing your book description is that you shouldn’t treat it like a summary of your book; rather, you should treat it like a sales letter. These are basic sales letter techniques you should use in your description. The application will attempt to use the chapter headings you typed in the original document. I highly recommend you use it.

But the launch process is a bit more involved than just clicking a publish button, and it starts much earlier than your official launch. So, how much money will you make with Lulu? So, I’m inviting you to check out the book at the price of 99 cents because I care about the message and want to spread it far and wide. If so, it’s easy to give it a test drive. Once your order has been delivered, which usually takes only three business days once you have placed the order, you can give your booklets out to your employees, business associates, etc. You can even sell them at a business event. You don’t have to sell it hard at this point. They weren’t all fantastic, but that’s the point. Amazon doesn’t look at the price of your book to determine how well it’s selling. Even if you’re not in a position to pay for a full edit, that doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. With a professional service you should expect to pay in the hundreds of dollars to have your book set up, formatted and converted from a Word DOC to a mobi or ePub file.