Through our trial and error we have discovered that the best way to make money selling ebooks online is by writing a series or a serial.
We make the first book permafree (it is always free). You can do this by publishing this book onto Draft2Digital or Smashwords/Google Play. (The formatting is easier on Draft2Digital.) Then set the price on Free. When your book appears on amazon, inform them that it is free on other platforms by sending them an email and clicking on the “Have you seen this book at a cheaper price” button on the book’s sale page. Make sure you send them the links to the free book.
This book will be on all ebook platforms, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Scribd etc.
Then promote the free book. Share it on Free ebook sites or FB pages.
Make sure you have a picture of your second book in the series at the end of the first story. Tell people to get the book. Also make sure book 1 is an excellent read.
We make 90% of our money from Amazon, so we always put books 2, 3, 4…. in Amazon KDP Select. This means that the following books in the series are not on all platforms – only Amazon. If you tick the KDP Select program and you put your book somewhere else, Amazon’s robot bots will find out and you will be banned from Amazon. Don’t do it!
With books 2, 3, 4…you can put a live link at the end of the book to the following books in the series. Customers can click on that link and go straight to your sales page and buy the book from Amazon.
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