| If you are a writer that has either written or | | | | website which sells and distributes your book |
| considered writing a book then you know there | | | | instantly, securely, and without any effort on your |
| are a couple of options on the table for book | | | | part or commissions due anyone but the payment |
| publishing. A digitally born (digitally published) book | | | | processor that will keep 2-3% for credit card or |
| gives authors more comprehensive rights to their | | | | other digital transactions. Welcome to year 2010. |
| work in the present and in the future. | | | | If you want to know how to create your own |
| Traditional paperback book publishing puts the | | | | site for $100 and sell your own eBooks just write |
| power and rights in the hands of those that | | | | me and ask. |
| distribute your book - and it takes away the | | | | 3. You'll make more money. I am willing to bet |
| power you have as the creator of that content. | | | | that the average author that creates her / his |
| There are numerous reasons authors must | | | | own eBooks and sells them online either through a |
| choose digitally published eBooks over traditional | | | | self-designed site, or through eBook partners that |
| paperback books, but these 4 reasons are | | | | keep up to 50% of the commission, will receive |
| paramount: | | | | far more money than they did publishing traditional |
| 1. Freedom to write as you wish and say as you | | | | paperback books. It just makes sense. By |
| wish without editing from any external source | | | | publishing eBooks you are cutting out the entire |
| that you do not involve. Paperback books are, by | | | | print-distribution middle-man and putting the |
| nature, products of a system that churns out | | | | money in your bank, not theirs. |
| generically formatted books that, in most cases, | | | | Looked at another way, the split for the |
| are not exactly what authors intended on | | | | proceeds from your books does not need to go |
| conveying upon first draft. Authors dumb-down | | | | through the usual publisher's house accounting |
| their work and make it presentable for agents | | | | hocus-pokus before you finally get a check in the |
| and authors, creating mindless pseudo-drivel that | | | | mail six months or six years after publishing your |
| is basically just what someone else has said a | | | | book. The whole paperback publishing model is |
| couple of hundred thousand times before. | | | | stale like week-old cheese. Put yourself in charge |
| Traditional publishing thrives on this generic output. | | | | of your book sales and accounting income. See |
| It thrives on the knowledge that - this book will | | | | how that feels. |
| not step outside the bounds of what has already | | | | 4. Distribution is truly worldwide and instantaneous. |
| been published before, so publishers can assume | | | | From Thailand I tried to purchase a book online at |
| they will be profitable with it. As authors you | | | | and was told that they do not mail paperback |
| must rebel against this censoring of your work, | | | | books to Thailand. When you publish a paperback |
| and choose the eBook as your only medium. | | | | book you are under the impression that those |
| 2. eBook publishing allows authors to retain all | | | | books can go anywhere with the major channels. |
| rights to their work, 100%. There are no | | | | Surely, you thought Amazon ships to Thailand and |
| bargaining of rights or contracts to sign when you | | | | anywhere in the world someone needs a book - |
| write your own eBook. You do not owe any | | | | yes? No. |
| company or individual ongoing commissions | | | | Online distribution can reach someone in a foxhole |
| forever because they invested in your paperback | | | | in Afghanistan or in their lounge-chair on the beach |
| book, printed it and distributed it. Instead, you | | | | when they get the urge to read a book on their |
| write it, you publish it digitally - usually for free, | | | | iPhone. Do you want to be the author with a |
| and you market it and offer it for public | | | | paperback book that reaches just a portion of |
| consumption in whatever manner you wish. | | | | the countries of the world, or the author of an |
| For less than $100 for a year, you can create a | | | | eBook that goes anywhere a phone signal goes? |