Writer John Bolinger Explains Why Writers Should Publish eBooks
2. Contracts from traditional publishers offer very small percentages of the profits from sales unless you're Stephen King, Anne Rice, Dan Brown, or John Grisham.
3. Hiring an agent and other people to market your book can be very expensive and can often provide minimal benefit to the author.
4. Publishing an eBook through places like Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble is an easy way to get your book "out there" with no cost to you.
5. One of the greatest benefits to authors doing an eBook on Amazon.com is that instead of 10% you reap 35% to 70%.
6. Because Amazon.com is the single largest seller of books on the planet and will publish and display your work at no cost to you, there is a huge and immediate benefit to you the author.
7. Key words are used to advertise your work to the world of readers out there. Google is your friend in this too.
8. You decide the price you want to ask for your book.
9. There are blog sites that are free for your creating further publicity for your book.
10. Publishing the traditional way, you can wait months for your book to be on shelves (that is if the publisher even accepts your work).
11. Publishing your eBook means that it will be available in 24 hours if it is in English. Other languages take up to three days.
12. You can monitor ebook sales and profits daily on line through your free account with the publisher.
13. eBooks are more and more available through free app devices to help download books on Mac and PC's, and other common equipment, and Kindles and NookBook devices are becoming more and more popular as well.
