Is it a good idea to self-publish my stories as e-Books?

February 11, 2010 8:26pm CST
Hi everyone. I am an aspiring author, and would like to try my hand at self-publishing, as I know that the literary industry currently makes it very difficult to get published in the traditional sense. I am considering writing stories solely to sell as CDs on eBay, or as downloadable shareware content on the Kindle and Apple book stores. I would prefer to sell my books as digital rather than paper, because naturally there are publishing costs involved in getting books printed to paper. Also, I am attracted to the idea of selling eBooks on CD on eBay, since this is a well-established selling platform that will permit CD sales. What do you guys think? Thanks Niki
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diamania
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
12 Feb 10
If you want to make money out of it you need to market your product. Learn some SEO and know how to create sales pages. Creating them is one, create one that sells is different. My inbox is available for you to drop questions in :)
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danishcanadian
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
12 Feb 10
My husband and I both have books that we have self published. Mine is a cookbook of Danish recipes, and his are three sci-fi novels. We sell print books, as well as e-books, and they are selling pretty well. We produced them at lulu.com and it was extremely easy, and they look fantastic!!
pastorkayte
@pastorkayte (2255)
• United States
22 Feb 10
I would go with Kindle as ebay ebooks usually require you to write some hundreds of books and sell them as a set. But on the Amazon program you just have to list the book for Kindle and you can sell quickly.
charitylee
@charitylee (53)
• Taiwan
12 Feb 10
i our area ther are a lot of success man,they put their book ,comics,video,program, to a locial famous blog ,then they test which one is popular and people like more?than publisher will hepe them to publish ...