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evanslily
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You probably won't be surprised to read that this question gets asked a lot. 
Have a read of this thread to get you started.
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=825683
Have a read of this thread to get you started.
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=825683
sr71plt
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I started by contributing to helping a home (as in Lit.)-grown publisher off the ground (eXcessica)--and letting them keep the profit. And then I figured out how I could make money out of it without being identified in the necessary transactions and then next time a publisher approached me, I said "Bingo, if you pay me this way . . ." That publisher became three publishers, by book content, and publishes me in two imprints under multiple pen names.
If you're doing it all yourself, Amazon.com (and CreateSpace through Amazon.com, if you want print too) is a good place to start. Smashwords is also a good place to start, as they list at several distributor sites.
My preference was to sign with a publisher that would put it up at many distribution sites in multiple e-book platform choices and also in paperback at Amazon.com--and would cover all of the time and expense involved in getting that done.
At one time up to the recent past, if you were just going to go with one distribution point/e-book platform, Amazon/Kindle was the way to go, because it had the lion share of the e-book market. In recent months, its market share has gone down noticeably. One explanation floating for this is that Amazon/India recently opened, and those folks are masters of pirating books, siphoning off sales, and thus cutting down Amazon sales. Just a rumor at this point, but the significant proportional slack off for Amazon sales isn't a rumor. The success of Barnes and Noble's Nook technology seems to be increasing its market share, and I think Smashwords will get your book there.
Kobo (at least for me) is the take-off sales platform now, so you might get your book in their e-book platform if you can. I have no idea what reader Kobo is on. I let my publisher worry about that. I just write the books and bank the profits--without worrying a whole lot that the publisher is profiting too. They are a necessary part of the process if I want to concentrate on volume writing, and I think they deserve to be paid for all of the grunt work they do--with technical expertise I don't have.
If you're doing it all yourself, Amazon.com (and CreateSpace through Amazon.com, if you want print too) is a good place to start. Smashwords is also a good place to start, as they list at several distributor sites.
My preference was to sign with a publisher that would put it up at many distribution sites in multiple e-book platform choices and also in paperback at Amazon.com--and would cover all of the time and expense involved in getting that done.
At one time up to the recent past, if you were just going to go with one distribution point/e-book platform, Amazon/Kindle was the way to go, because it had the lion share of the e-book market. In recent months, its market share has gone down noticeably. One explanation floating for this is that Amazon/India recently opened, and those folks are masters of pirating books, siphoning off sales, and thus cutting down Amazon sales. Just a rumor at this point, but the significant proportional slack off for Amazon sales isn't a rumor. The success of Barnes and Noble's Nook technology seems to be increasing its market share, and I think Smashwords will get your book there.
Kobo (at least for me) is the take-off sales platform now, so you might get your book in their e-book platform if you can. I have no idea what reader Kobo is on. I let my publisher worry about that. I just write the books and bank the profits--without worrying a whole lot that the publisher is profiting too. They are a necessary part of the process if I want to concentrate on volume writing, and I think they deserve to be paid for all of the grunt work they do--with technical expertise I don't have.
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CandiCame
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You probably won't be surprised to read that this question gets asked a lot.
Have a read of this thread to get you started.
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=825683
Ooooh, I'll check that right out!!!
Thank you both!!
lovecraft68
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I'm in the crowd that fully thinks this is exactly what happened the timing is way to coincidental.
BY the way, Kobo, is the e-reading platform that comes with tablets.
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D_Lynn
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Decisions
There are decisions to be made on your end regarding post production. There has been a lot of discussion on threads here around the pros/cons of using a publisher, copyrighting, the book cover image, distribution channels, and editing.
There are so many ways to go about this.
In the end, it comes down to defining your goals and understanding the level of effort behind your decisions. In short, where/how do you want to focus your energy?
If you would like to know more about the decisions I made and why, or if you have specific questions around publishing on Amazon, feel free to PM me.
-Dakota
There are decisions to be made on your end regarding post production. There has been a lot of discussion on threads here around the pros/cons of using a publisher, copyrighting, the book cover image, distribution channels, and editing.
There are so many ways to go about this.
In the end, it comes down to defining your goals and understanding the level of effort behind your decisions. In short, where/how do you want to focus your energy?
If you would like to know more about the decisions I made and why, or if you have specific questions around publishing on Amazon, feel free to PM me.
-Dakota
