/lit/ - Literature

>>9734769
How many did you get on June 21st? 155? Or is it perhaps 75? If it's around 300 then buddy you've been having 19 pretty damn good days! But yeah, the big money seems to be in KENP, or at least the most consistent money. Sadly I haven't gotten an eBook sale in 2 weeks now, as seen in pic related. Been over 2 months since my last release, and I definitely think to maintain good sales/KENP, it's best to be putting out books pretty regularly. Got 3100 words written today though, so that's great, VERY productive. In fact if I can maintain that (doubtful) I could have this novel finished in about 10 days, give or take, depending on how long I want this novel to be. 50,000 words at least, of course. Can't wait to try NaNoWriMo.

>>9734801
>Self punlishing is an absolute joke
Well memed, my friend. Makes me feel like it's still the 20th century.

>>9734881
Once you stop renewing it and the 3-month contract expires, yes, you can sell eBook versions of your book on other sites. The book I took off KDP Select is currently free on Lulu, I'll provide the link, but I'll say ahead of time that I know there's some grammatical errors in it. I wrote the novella within 5 days, it's almost 29,000 words long, and the first 15,500 was written within a 24-hour period, the first 10,000 words being within a 6-hour period.

FREE BOOK (Another One Please, to Dull the Pain)
http://www.lulu.com/shop/j-n-morgan/another-one-please-to-dull-the-pain/ebook/product-23229284.html

You can price your eBook anywhere from $0.99 USD and up. At $2.99 and up you can get 70% royalties. A $2.99 sale gets you $2.05 USD, which in Monopoly money (Canadian dollars; we have colourful bills) is about $2.65 CAD, perhaps $2.70 Australian. The US dollar was stronger than the Canadian dollar a few months back so $2.05 USD used to give about $2.80 CAD. Anyways, my first 4 books are $0.99 to encourage people to buy them. My 2 sequels are $2.99 and this 3rd sequel will also be $2.99.

I don't plan on making an eBook over $2.99 unless perhaps I write one that's around 100,000 pages or more, and even then probably just $3.99. Still, I know someone who recently released a book for $4.99. I think that's far too expensive for an eBook, but she DID get 13 sales within the first few weeks. Admittedly 6 of them were from friends/family, but I did the math, and I recall it being around $50 CAD at least. I told her how incredible a start that is; it's her first book, but inevitably her sales did eventually cool down. She'll probably lower her price in time.

I hear that selling short stories individually for $0.99 a piece or $2.99 at most is where big money is, but I'd feel terrible doing that. I want to give better value for my readers, so while I AM writing some short stories on the side, they will be released in a compilation that will perhaps be $2.99 but I haven't decided yet. Might just be $0.99, depends on how long it is, but there will be several short stories and/or novelettes in it.