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    Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms
    Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms
    Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms
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    Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    This article fasttracks you to the opportunites available to extend your publishing reach through other eBook publishing platforms, of which there are a surprising number. Short and to the point, it encompasses the author's expereince in publishing 50 titles to-date on all available.platforms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateJun 6, 2015
    ISBN9781310264627
    Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms
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    R. Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms - R. Paul Stevens

      Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms

      All Rights Reserved © 2015 Paul Stevens

      An Article in Steve’s How 2 Series

      Smashwords Edition

      Contents

      Introduction - eBook Publishing Platforms - Book Distributors - Platforms Distributed To - Where Your Sales will Come From - Promoting with Free Titles - Formatting Requirements - Sales & Sales Reporting - Distributing to Createspace -

      Getting Started

      Appendix A: Smashwords FAQ’s - Appendix B: Draft2Digital FAQ’s

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      Distributing your eBook to Non Amazon Platforms

      Introduction

      As a new eBook author, you are obviously first going to head off Amazon and get your eBook up and running on that platform. A simple word document and a decent cover image is all you really need. It’s a cinch to get anything published on this platform and about the only time Amazon will block it from being published is if your cover and book title are different. Once you are on their shelves, in return for exclusivity, they will tempt you with free promotions (5 days per 3 month period) and enrolment in Kindle Unlimited, a Netflix type business model where readers can consume as much content as they wish, and you get a fixed royalty payment (about $1.50) irrespective of whether your title is 1000 words or 250 000 words. You will probably play around in this space and with these programs until suddenly you become curious as well as restless about what the other eBook publishing platforms offer. I know I had this struggle at first, but having cut the cord, so to speak and dropping all exclusivity agreements with Amazon, I’ve never looked back and now have a very healthy revenue stream from all other platforms that combined equals twice my current Amazon revenue.

      eBook Publishing Platforms

      There are no less than 17 other eBook publishing platforms available to you, and clearly you won’t be interested in trying to distribute individually to each of these, especially if you have a whole bunch of titles. Here are the current non Amazon eBook platforms:

      Apple

      ARe and Omnilit

      Baker & Taylor Blio

      Baker-Taylor Axis360

      Diesel

      Flipkart

      Google Play

      Ingram

      Kobo

      Library Direct

      OverDrive

      Oyster

      Page Foundry

      Scribd

      Sony

      Tolino

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      Book Distributors

      This is where Book Distributors provide an invaluable service. In practice, there are only two significant players in the market, Smashwords (www.smashwords.com) and Draft2Digital (www.draft2digital.com). Draft2Digital is the newer player and is attracting authors at what appears to be an exponential rate due to its compelling design and speed of publishing. Both sites are very easy to use, not much different to Amazon really in the process of uploading an eBook. The difference is that your eBook goes out all at once to multiple platforms instead of just one. The only significant platform conspicuously absent from both distributors is Google Play.

      Platforms Distributed To

      Smashwords is presently distributing to:

      Apple

      Baker & Taylor Blio

      Baker-Taylor Axis360

      Barnes & Noble

      Diesel

      Flipkart

      Kobo

      Library Direct

      OverDrive

      Oyster

      Page Foundry

      Scribd

      Sony

      txtr

      Draft2Digital

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