{"id":5153,"date":"2011-03-06T01:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T07:02:39","slug":"selling-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/selling-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Direct to the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very fine summary of the economics of selling your ebook on the Kindle, found on Eli James&#8217; blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelr.com\/2011\/02\/27\/rich-indie-writer\">Novelr<\/a>. Most books of genre fiction are priced at between $2.99 and $4.99.  But if the books are priced at $.99 the author gets only 35%; Amazon figuring it needs a minimum of $.35 per book. Top selling authors can move 10,000 copies per month.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/\/Kindletop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kindletop.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"146\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Novelr has a good roundup of the various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelr.com\/2009\/06\/30\/the-novelr-guide-to-ebook-formats\">ebook formats<\/a> for independents, but it is a bit dated now (2009). To turn your Word document into an ePub format and then onto the Kindle, go to another blogger, Linda Nagata who has an extremely <a href=\"http:\/\/hahvi.net\/?cat=13\">detailed tutorial<\/a> on how-to. (I have not tried it yet.) More how-to info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookdesigner.com\/2011\/03\/instant-gratification-books-meet-kindle-publishing\/\">here<\/a>. If you want to hire a pro to Kindlize your book quickly, you can try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.52novels.com\/\">Rob Siders<\/a>, for example. (I have not used him.)<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have a bettertutorial for DIY going from Word to Kindle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very fine summary of the economics of selling your ebook on the Kindle, found on Eli James&#8217; blog Novelr. Most books of genre fiction are priced at between $2.99 and $4.99. But if the books are priced at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/selling-direct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/screenpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}