This is a technique that you won't likely find being discussed. We think this is a valid, workable, and profitable way to sell your work. The technology is 'off the shelf'.' Totally mature and secure. You have nothing to fear, or be concerned about. Technical issues can be handled by any competent Web shop.
Advantages
With little more than a Web site, or blog, a book or other publication in Portable Document Format (PDF), and PayPal, you can be your own publishing house. In fact, if you have a project ready to go, you can have it online and for sale in less than 48 hours from now.
This can be done nicely with WordPress, and you can get a WordPress blog for free. Same with PayPal.
Your Website, or blog, will do three things for you.
- It will advertise and sell your work.
- Be found by search engines.
- Be the crown jewel of your social networking campaign.
Here there are no middlemen. No one to take a commission from you. No one can refuse to publish your work. You seek no one's approval. You make money or you don't totally on your own because you are totally on your own.
Disadvantages
Piracy of your work. Despite your best efforts your book's security may be broken. should that happen, you will receive nothing from any copies made. This happened to me, as I've written here in a previous post.
So, look for Digital Rights Management (DRM) cracking and illegal sharing of books much like what the music industry went through in the 1990s. See late news below. Apple is involves and did much to end the music privacy. That's good news for all of us.
You are totally responsible for the entire project. this very much includes marketing and sales. there is no one to help you, unless you hire someone. And like anything else it cuts into your profits.
As to pricing your PDF eBook, we suggest you price it according to similar work sold at Amazon, Barns and Noble, and other major eBook outlets.
Late breaking news!
We literally just heard about Apple getting onto the publishing business. This from a friend, editor,and writer, Lindsay Kelloc. Read the entire article here Has Apple just invented a new kind of long-form journalism?
Even better, Apple has created an eBook creation tool iBooksAuthor From Apple.
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