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- monkey-business
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- kaykay1216
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- johappy
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- MaySage
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But the best bet is to do both if you use CreateSpace, the conversion from one to the other is incredibly painless
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It does depend on the public you're writing for - for example, I'm writing contemporary women fiction: I definitely need eBooks.
But the best bet is to do both if you use CreateSpace, the conversion from one to the other is incredibly painless
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- moderntimes
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For example, the small publisher who just agreed to offer me a contract for my 3 private detective novels will be both printing them in "trade paperback" format and also e-book, probably offering them at the same time. Or maybe, the print version first followed by the Kindle version shortly afterward. This time gap allows print sales to generate more steadily, since bookstores are a critical element in sales figures, even nowadays.
Incidentally, royalties for the author usually are in the neighborhood of 20%-25% for print, and upwards of 40% for e-book sales, but this varies depending on the advance, low, high, or not at all.
- Connoisseur
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Agreed!Connoisseur wrote:Both. You presumably want to reach as large of an audience as you can.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ~ Psalms 4:8
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- Ashton
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It saves on paper, space, and money.
Plus I think reading digitally can be better. I personally normally have a collection of of to be read. If I am going somewhere I don't need to decide which book to bring, since I will have all of my books on my reader.
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how you publish it in whatever media is irrelevant to writing it
why not print and ebook
audio is too expensive to produce and has too small a market
then the question is which ebook formats
there are hundreds
kindle nook kobo and pdf as well as epub3 seem to be the biggest sellers by far
monkey-business wrote:What is the best to write? And why?
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then kindle is easier
why is kindle easier
if they are truly the same isnt just writing a book the same no matter what media it is published in
pauljeday wrote:As far as writing is concerned they are both the same, though Kindle format is getting easier to write for.