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brianjanuary

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Does anyone have any recent publishing experiences or success with Pubit and Nook? I'm thinking about trying it out, but from what I've briefly scanned, authors don't seem to be having much sales success, since Kindle has the bulk of the customers.
 

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At B&N, I tend to max out at about $120 per month. Yes, Amazon's sales can be 10 times that, but it's better to be available everywhere you can. I distribute through Amazon KDP, B&N PubIt!, and Smashwords (which goes to iTunes, Kobo, Sony, etc.).

Agreed with James.
 

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I receive most of my sales from Amazon; however, in the past couple of weeks, I've had four people contact me who received Nooks for Christmas and wanted to buy my e-books. Because of that exclusivity clause with Amazon KDP Select, they weren't available at B&N. Some people might say, "Well, that's only four people." I say, "That's four people." I won't be continuing with Amazon KDP Select when the 90 days are up.

I also got tired of the wait for Smashwords to review my most current release, so uploaded it to PubIt and it's live now. I have sent a message to Smashwords support regarding the issue that I fixed, but my dashboard still reads "need to be submitted" (which I already did). It seems to be stuck in limbo, and has been for almost a week. I still haven't heard back from Smashwords yet. I felt like I needed to circumvent the system on this one, since it's the first book in a romance trilogy. The second book should be available by the end of March. At the rate I was going with Smashwords, my second e-book would be available before the first!
 

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One of my short stories has yet to sell five copies a month at Amazon, but it sells around 20 a month at B&N.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why that is.

I just put up the stories I've marked for self-pub everywhere I can.
 

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I have two books exclusive to Amazon, and the rest are available for both Kindle and Nook. At first I wasn't publicizing the Nook versions, but I quickly realized I was making 40 percent of my sales at BN. Big surprise to me!
 

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I look at it this way.

I don't own a Kindle and have no interest in owning a Kindle OR ordering books from Amazon.

If your book is only on Amazon, I most likely won't be buying it.

So, to maximize sales, wouldn't it make sense to put your book everywhere you can?
 
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