https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/publishing/formats/w/ebooks/1818/the-e-book-as-a-stepping-stone---articleen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/publishing/formats/w/ebooks/1818/the-e-book-as-a-stepping-stone---articleSun, 26 Feb 2017 10:40:44 GMT809ccca5-04d2-44bf-8f5c-ff0a6d33c80b:51883f47-3090-4049-b1a4-ebd46200a8d8Ken Atchityhttps://www.authorlearningcenter.com/publishing/formats/w/ebooks/1818/the-e-book-as-a-stepping-stone---article#commentsCurrent Revision posted to eBooks by Ken Atchity on 2/26/2017 10:40:44 AM<br /> <p>E-books are electronic books that you put out through the internet. People can download an e-book from your site directly or from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or a similar site. There are a lot of free e-books these days, or you can charge any price you like. One of the great things about e-books is that they can be published so quickly&mdash;you can have an e-book on the market twenty-four hours after you decide you&rsquo;d like to publish an e-book. Obviously, e-books don&rsquo;t have the same kind of status as traditionally published books, but publishing an e-book can be a good strategy for writers who haven&rsquo;t been able to get anywhere with traditional publishing. If you can sell several thousand copies of an e-book, that proves there&rsquo;s a market, and you can then take that information to a publisher or an agent. A movie came out not too long ago based on a book one of our authors self-published ten years ago. He sold ten thousand copies, and we used that to make a quarter-million dollar deal with a publisher; he had proof that he had sold that many copies and that there was a market for his work. That&rsquo;s very convincing to publishers. They don&rsquo;t like to take risks; if they decide to publish a book and it doesn&rsquo;t do well, they lose money. If you&rsquo;ve already had success with an e-book, you&rsquo;ve already put your money where your mouth is. You&rsquo;ve shown that there&rsquo;s a market, so publishers will look at you completely differently.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: article, fiction, Nonfiction</div> https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/publishing/formats/w/ebooks/1818/the-e-book-as-a-stepping-stone---article/revision/1Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT809ccca5-04d2-44bf-8f5c-ff0a6d33c80b:51883f47-3090-4049-b1a4-ebd46200a8d8Ken Atchityhttps://www.authorlearningcenter.com/publishing/formats/w/ebooks/1818/the-e-book-as-a-stepping-stone---article#commentsRevision 1 posted to eBooks by Ken Atchity on 12/14/2016 12:00:00 AM<br /> <p>E-books are electronic books that you put out through the internet. People can download an e-book from your site directly or from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or a similar site. There are a lot of free e-books these days, or you can charge any price you like. One of the great things about e-books is that they can be published so quickly—you can have an e-book on the market twenty-four hours after you decide you’d like to publish an e-book. Obviously, e-books don’t have the same kind of status as traditionally published books, but publishing an e-book can be a good strategy for writers who haven’t been able to get anywhere with traditional publishing. If you can sell several thousand copies of an e-book, that proves there’s a market, and you can then take that information to a publisher or an agent. A movie came out not too long ago based on a book one of our authors self-published ten years ago. He sold ten thousand copies, and we used that to make a quarter-million dollar deal with a publisher; he had proof that he had sold that many copies and that there was a market for his work. That’s very convincing to publishers. They don’t like to take risks; if they decide to publish a book and it doesn’t do well, they lose money. If you’ve already had success with an e-book, you’ve already put your money where your mouth is. You’ve shown that there’s a market, so publishers will look at you completely differently. </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: article, fiction, Nonfiction</div>