How Do I Publish an EBook?
Yesterday we talked about one of our authors and her romance eBooks. But we didn’t say very much about the process itself, and that’s what we’d like to share with you today.
The decision to publish an eBook is a smart thing for an author to do, and it’s getting smarter all the time. EBooks are definitely the trend. I would go so far as to say if you don’t convert your book to an eBook, be prepared to be an author without readers.
Let’s say you already have a book with us, what’s being called a pBook in the trade nowadays. That means printed book.
When we convert your book to an eBook, we charge you for our costs. We do not mark it up above that cost. And when we do give you a quoted price for this or any other service, you will note that the quote is good for a stated period of time, usually 30 days.
One cost that some authors don’t always know about is that each edition of a book needs to have its own ISBN number (International Standard Book Number).
Once we have the converted files, we send them to our international distributor, who gets them to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Apple, Kobo, and almost every other worldwide eBookseller.
There is a one-time set-up fee to place your eBook into distribution. As for pricing, we price our eBooks at 60% of paper book price.
When the eBook sells, and after we receive payment from the vendor, royalty payments are paid on the same basis as any book you have with us. We account to you monthly on your Royalty Report.
So this is the way to publish an eBook with us. Many of our authors have converted one or more of their books already. Almost all new books we publish includes eBook conversion and distribution. Our authors like their readers, and want them to have their books in whatever format works for the readers.
If you have any questions about this process, or any other aspect of book publishing and marketing, kindly contact us. We’ll be happy to talk with you.
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