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I am not sure that we still need a separate e-publishing room, as very few trade-published writers ever appear here.
I'd love to see how trade publishers are doing in the ebook world. What can we do to make it more inviting in here?
Move the self-publishing stuff to its own self-publishing forum?
That's actually a serious suggestion.
There are still some discussions to be had about epublishing, I think, as it becomes an increasingly large sector of the book trade. For instance, the difference between contracts for digital-only and digital-first publishers. Or the ways that publishers are marketing digital books differently from print - publication windows, pricing etc.
But if all the threads in here are self-publishers talking about whether to opt in to Kindle Select or how to format for Smashwords, it doesn't seem like this is the right forum for those discussions. And it helps reinforce the all-too-frequent confusion between self-publishing and e-publishing.
It would be more inviting if the terms ebook and e-publishing weren't allowed to be constantly misused as though they were synonymous with self publishing.I'd love to see how trade publishers are doing in the ebook world. What can we do to make it more inviting in here?
Doesn't bookbub cost like $700 or something?What a change! So, Bookbub is doing good for you? I can't remember where I heard about it, but I'm thinking that J. Konrath endorsed it and said that it really pumped sales for him. Or it was some other place--thing is, it was a positive review of that service, and I'm tempted to check it out myself.
After my free trial I sold 10 books then all the other titles picked up sales, which has never happened. Not a big shout-out, but progress nevertheless.
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It would be more inviting if the terms ebook and e-publishing weren't allowed to be constantly misused as though they were synonymous with self publishing.
That is what gets on my nerves about this section. It is a misuse of terms when most books by trade publishers are put into eBook these days, and when there are so many digital first and digital only publishers and new imprints of big publishers.
I go to another board where e-publishing and self-publishing are separate categories, but when I suggested a few months back that the two should be separated here I got flamed by someone.
Doesn't bookbub cost like $700 or something?
We didn't start getting reviews on our months until... I don't know, weeks or months after we hit publish. Most of our stuff still doesn't have reviews, and I think it's like... .5% of readers would review or something? It's ridiculously low.
By admission of the major 3rd-party review services, 1% of purchasers are going to bother to write a review.
In contrast, according to Nielsen 70% of customers rely on consumer opinions posted online.
I've learned that negative Amazon reviews (apparently, anything less than four stars) aren't welcomed by the authors or their fan bases.