How to Sell Your EBook on Amazon
Want to know how to sell your eBook on Amazon? Can you imagine how cool it would be to sell your eBook on the biggest book selling sites on the internet?
Amazon is the biggest book selling website, and you CAN sell your book alongside the publishing greats, if you do it properly. And that’s what you will learn in this chapter.
WHY SELL ON AMAZON?
Amazon is huge. If you want a book and you’re going to buy it online, chances are Amazon is the first place you think of.
Many self published authors found their book sales increased incredibly just by adding their book to the site. It needs to be done properly of course, but there is no doubt that although you will take less of a profit per copy with this strategy; the number of copies you can sell is more than enough to make up for that.
Amazon opens you up to the biggest internet book buying audience where buyers can find your book by typing keywords into the Amazon search tool. People searching Amazon will find it when they might not find your website.
SELLING YOUR EBOOK ON AMAZON FOR KINDLE READER
Amazon now offers digital downloads to its Kindle wireless reading device. Kindle is a book sized electronic eBook reader that Amazon developed so that it only has to deal with one eBook format, while also making money from the Kindle reader sales. It differs wildly from print on demand (POD) publishing, which we will be looking at in chapter fifteen. Digital fulfillment basically refers to an eBook that is sent wirelessly to the customer’s Kindle reader as a digital file. There are a few requirements for selling electronic documents using this service, which include:
- You must be a US citizen.
- You must have and provide to Amazon your social insurance number.
- You must have a bank account.
Unless you meet all three conditions above you cannot sell on Amazon until they expand the Kindle program to other countries.
Amazon provides you with a 35% commission for the list price of each eBook sold. This seems like the publisher receiving a very small percentage of the sales, especially if Amazon doesn’t have to print or ship any books, but that is the way it is. It is no different than paying an affiliate commission of 65%, though it is difficult to sell your eBooks on Kindle for the same prices as those sold using mini sites. An interesting thing with Amazon is that you can put your book on sale at a lower price and still receive the same 35% commission of the list price.
You also need to submit your eBook in HTML format, not PDF. Using your word processor (Word, WordPerfect™, or Open Office) with your eBook file open, click on File, then Save As, and select HTML as the file type.
Sign up for an account at digitaltextplatform.com by simply adding your personal information, author name, book title, and price. Then upload your file and in 24 – 48 hours you will be selling on Amazon.
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