Self Publishing on Kindle and Nook – Update
I have 5 projects available on Amazon now and three on Barnes and Noble. I still have two to format and put on the Nook, but there are some issues in conversion that I haven't quite gotten figured out yet. In addition, my author website is up and running, although it is still a work in progress (I suspect it always will be).
Even better, the books are selling. Not good enough to pay for that beach house yet, to be truthful, barely enough to pay for a meal at McDonalds, but the point is they are selling. This proves that it is doable and any failures now are on me for not being able to market them well.
I've chosen to go with a .99 price point for most of them in the hopes that the price will get people interested in my writing. The second books in the series will be priced slightly higher, but still affordable since I find myself looking at prices before buying eBooks. I assume if I do it, so do others.
For some reason it just galls me that some of the publishers price their eBooks within a dollar or so of the hardback book version and almost always more than the paperback version. They can do all the fancy accounting they want to do, but they will never convince me that the true cost of getting the book to market is nearly as much in digital as it is in paper format. There is just something wrong with paying nearly as much for 1s and 0s that have no tangible form as it is to pay for an actual paper copy of a book. I suspect that what they are doing is adding in the cost of the paper copies when doing their calculations, rather than breaking it down separately.
Anyway, the experiment is a success so far, now I need to work on continuing to write and on marketing.
More updates later.
