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Gone are those days when writers had to go through the stress and hassles of publishers and sales. These days, writers are self-publishing their books and putting on platforms where it can be accessed/purchased by every interested persons.
Aerio is an easy-to-use resource for new and experienced self-published authors. A free account on Aerio gets you unlimited eBook uploads, a branded bookstore page, widgets to help with book layout, audience analytics, email catches and more. They’ll just take 15% of your sales to compensate once those are rolling. The process for selling your book can be broken down into 4 simple steps:
Upload your book.
Create marketing materials on the Aerio site including eye-catching book previews and intriguing descriptions.
Create your personal bookstore and link it to your blog, website, and social media.
Continue marketing your book on the Aerio site and other places by doing things like giveaways and building email lists, and figure out what’s working with their analytics option.
If you’re looking to sell your book through online and in-person retailers, Ingram is the way to go. Ingram is the largest wholesale book distributor in the world, and is well known by bookstores everywhere. Many bookstores use Ingram as their main resource for finding and ordering books to sell. That means the biggest perk to using Ingram is you can ride the coattails of their reliability and gain access to many bookstores who might be interested in carrying your titles. Pricing wise, Ingram has one of the most straightforward models. To publish an eBook and print title on their site and access all services you can expect to spend $50. For just eBooks, it will be closer to $25. Self-published authors can offer wholesale prices to be added to the Ingram inventory.