Ebooks

Most self-publishing platforms recommend adding a table of contents (TOC) to an ebook. Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing has a help page, Create a Table of Contents in Word. It explains that Amazon now insists on ebooks having a TOC and describes how to create one. However, if you use the automatic Microsoft Word function for a…

Where is Apple’s marketing for Apple Books? It’s awfully hard to find. How many emails do you receive from Amazon reminding you of the Kindle ebooks you have viewed? Lots? Like me, I’m sure you get emails from Goodreads too. The silent Apple But where’s Apple? When have you ever received anything that is promoting…

Before self-publishing, you need to know how to format an ebook in a Microsoft Word document. It has probably taken months if not longer, to write your book’s manuscript. Due to this, your Word file is almost certainly full of erroneous styles, formatting errors, and different text or font formats. It is vital to remove these…

How many Kindle ebooks are on Amazon? There are now well over 12 million Kindle ebooks on Amazon. I have been tracking the number of ebooks on Amazon for many years now. You can check my most recent update here with my latest formula and results. Tracking ebooks on the Kindle Store The number of…

Ebooks are price-sensitive, so what is your Kindle ebook pricing strategy? If you have set your ebook selling price and not changed it since you first published it, perhaps it’s time to take another look at your list price. If book sales are not rolling in the door for you, it’s probably a good time…

A good Kindle ebook sales rank helps you sell more ebooks. But keeping your ebook in a high position on Kindle bestseller lists is challenging. A book has a short selling life, so you need to make the most of your opportunities in the first few months, in particular. If you’re looking to maintain your…

How do you get your ebook noticed? Is your ebook lost in the crowd? If it is, it is not hard to understand why when you realize just how many new authors are publishing books each year. There are so many platforms, retailers, and of course, authors all fighting for a piece of the ebook…

When you buy an ebook, do you purchase it or only rent it? Then after this consideration, what restrictions come with either choice? The issue of ebook ownership has been discussed extensively in newspapers and publishing blogs. Although very convenient, the most popular ebook retail platforms often impose limitations on your ebook purchases. DRM is…

How to sell ebooks online? There is an answer. Unfortunately, it is probably not one that true indie self-published authors would like to hear. But it’s clear. Forget the rest and concentrate most of your book marketing efforts on Amazon Kindle. Do you have choices? I have been self-publishing for so long now that it…

Free Kindle ebooks sell ebooks in the end through a complex algorithm that Amazon uses to calculate an individual ebook’s sales rank. In simple terms, each free ebook that is downloaded counts towards the ebook’s sales ranking. Amazon does not give precise details on its Free book promotions page, apart from this broad explanation. “The…