Your Web Site If you want to have be successful in marketing your eBooks, you should get your own web site. It is essential! If you have no idea how to build a web. Everyone has expertise in something that they could monetize by writing an eBook. See how you can create and sell an eBook on your website in just 8 steps. (Year of Publication). Title of Work [E-reader Version]. Retrieved from or doi:xxxxx Example: Stoker, B. Dracula [Kindle HDX version]. Retrieved from Citing a book found in a database Note: Some e-books may be available online through your library’s databases or catalogs. Structure: Author, F.M. (Year of Publication). Title of work. Retrieved from or doi:xxxxx Example: Rodriguez-Garcia, R., & White, E.M. Self-assessment in managing for results: Conducting self-assessment for development practitioners. And that’s just a small taste of all the disruptions we’ve enjoyed thanks to the internet. One of the biggest disrupted industries, and one of those that provides a great path to a solid venture for an individual entrepreneur, is in book publishing. You see, what the big publishing houses do with big offices of editors, writers, administrative staff and then big printing presses then distribution centers to get their books out to bookstores around the country all to hopefully get books in the hands of customers you can do on the computer you have right now. If that’s not massive disruption, I don’t know what is. With all the red tape, 'play to pay' tactics, and the lack of marketing support from the big publishing houses (along with low royalties) many are finding that self-publishing is a much better option. There are some key differences between this self-publishing (which, by the way, doesn’t have the negative connotations it used to) and traditional publishing. From humble beginnings, ebooks now sell in the millions each year, representing about 20 percent of the publishing market in the United States. Industry watchers say that by 2018, ebook revenues will reach over $8 billion per year. And there is plenty of room for a one-person ebook entrepreneur to get a piece of that market. What Are Ebooks? Ebooks are, well, books. But in a format where they can be delivered or downloaded online. You can write them yourself, employ writers, use public domain content, and create your ebooks from many sources. And just about any subject can be covered — just as many, if not more, than what a traditional publisher might release because you can tailor your tomes to. Travel guides, how-to manuals, mystery, romance, science fiction, self-help, technology, religions just about any subject is fair game as long as there is a market of ready buyers. (One of the best ways to check for is to scan the bestseller lists on Amazon. And not just the overall list but also the ones for categories and subcategories.) Also, you won’t have to rely on an editor or publisher telling you whether a book will be published. And you won’t have to rely on a bookstore to put your book on its shelves. You’re in complete control of the entire process. In fact, you’re going to handle everything yourself, including marketing and selling. And that means you get to keep all the profits. They’re nothing to sneeze. Self-published authors have had big success in recent years. Take Hugh Howey, who sold a series of science fiction books through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. At one point, he was selling 20,000 — 30,000 copies a month, which generated $150,000 in income monthly. Amanda Hocking, who writes “paranormal romance” and fantasy novels, has sold well more than a million books on Amazon, generating over $2 million in sales. That's proof that you can. Perhaps most famously 50 Shades of Grey author E.L.
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