Katie Elle
Banned
I'm not sure what the genre of your work is, but there have been a couple of people on the kindleboards author forum who've tried manga style covers and they haven't done well and a cover change has improved their sales. YMMV.
If you're in Australia, you'd be publishing direct to Amazon and on Smashwords for distribution to Barnes & Noble, Apple, and a variety of other places like Sony or Kobo where nobody seems to ever sell much
Unless it's a short story, you want to go for $2.99 as a price point to get the amazon 70% royalty. (Exception, erotica shorts sell at $2.99.)
The royalty from Smashwords is 80% of whatever they get from their partners. The vast majority of your sales will come at B&N and iBooks.
Amazon will price match. However, it will usually take a few months to get them to actually match the price on a self-published book and usually requires having all your friends report the free price.
If you're in Australia, you'd be publishing direct to Amazon and on Smashwords for distribution to Barnes & Noble, Apple, and a variety of other places like Sony or Kobo where nobody seems to ever sell much
Unless it's a short story, you want to go for $2.99 as a price point to get the amazon 70% royalty. (Exception, erotica shorts sell at $2.99.)The royalty from Smashwords is 80% of whatever they get from their partners. The vast majority of your sales will come at B&N and iBooks.
Amazon will price match. However, it will usually take a few months to get them to actually match the price on a self-published book and usually requires having all your friends report the free price.