Help! Anyone know how sell stories via e-books?

[squarejohn]

I want to sell my stories via e-books. How do I do that?

I'm an old dinosaur who used to sell stories when you wrote them on typewriters. I gave that up for other things and now that I'm retired, I want to start writing again for money. E-books sounds intriguing, but I can't find out anything that makes sense about how to do that.

I would appreciate it if somebody could steer me in the right direction.

 

[sr71plt]

What sort of e-books? There's a wide variance in what is selling well in e-books. If you're talking erotica or romance, the market is very good--and publishers are easier to find than publishers for print books in these genres are.

To start looking for appropriate publishers, go to a mega e-book distribution site like Fictionwise.com or Romanceebooks.com or Smashwords.com and/or Bookstrand.com and browse for e-books that are like what you want to write and e-publish. Check who their pubishers are and go to the publishers' web sites and check out their listings and their submissions guidance. All or most of the cited distribution sites have lists of the publishers represented there and click throughs to their web sites. Getting an e-book published is far, far, far easier than getting a print book published.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Go to Amazon Kindle and create an account.

Make sure you create a cover for your book. You can use fair-use or free photos to do so, and a simple image program to put the title and your name on the image.

Upload your manuscript in MS-Word form to Kindle. Enter the correct metadata (blurb, date of publication etc). Click "submit" and wait 2-3 days for it to be approved and published.

Voila! You have now put your book up on the largest e-publishing platform in the world.

The rest is up to you!

 

[sr71plt]

One of my publishers moans and groans about how the Kindle process isn't nearly as easy as Selena indicates--and I can clearly see that you have to have talents that go way beyond book author to get the process done without disaster AND what I've experienced makes a claimed 2-3 day wait in getting anything done there a myth. So, I'd suggest trying for a publisher if you'd like to spend your time writing over pulling your hair out.

But you've gotten the attention of a publisher already (Selena = eXcessica and Fido), so you could try her (I mean her publishing companies).

 

[Bebeslut]

Does anyone know what Kindle refuses to publish?
I'm thinking of publishing some of my stories on Kindle, since many of them violate the guidelines of online erotica publishers.