If you are a writer, then you would need to get your books published also in electronic form, as an eBook
Well, I am here to give you a list of websites to start you out in your career as a published eBook author.
Payhip will help you do most of the hard work: host your eBooks and securely deliver the eBooks to your customers. It will also handle payments through PayPal for you; all you have to do is upload your eBook to start selling. Once your eBook is on the site, you can promote your book anywhere (FaceBook, Twitter) with a link for your eBook page.
Lulu has a wide network of retail partners through which your eBook can reach readers, including the iBookstore and Barnes & Noble NOOK. You are even given the flexibility to set your own price.
If you know eBooks, you should also know what the Kindle eReader is. Publishing here would mean your books are on the Amazon Kindle Store and at the fingertips of many eBook users.
Publishing your eBook on Smashwords means it’ll be able to reach the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo, the Diesel eBook Store, Baker & Taylor’s Blio and Axis360 and more. By registering, you’re entitled to free ISBNs and eBook conversion to 9 formats.
With Kobo Writing Life you can reach out to millions of readers in over 170 countries. It is a do-it-yourself eBook publishing portal which makes your book available within their main catalogue, on any device. Just start out by bringing your own written materials to them in a simple Word document format and they’ll convert it into a complete eBook for you.
PubIt!, powered by Barnes & Noble, is where you can self-publish your books, ideas and content easily. It has a free conversion service to turn your work to be compatible with the NOOK, and other mobile or computing devices. You are however to pay them a slight cut off your royalty per sale since you’re able to reach a high number of readers through Barnes & Noble.
Booktango is a free service that helps you design a cover for your eBook and then helps you publish and market it. You can sell your eBook through their connection of major retailers which includes Barnes & Noble, Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, Amazon, Google and Scribd.
A basic publishing package at BookBaby will cost you $99, a standard one $149, and $249 for premium services. The more you pay, the more services and support you will get like being able to personalize your eBook layout and graphic elements. However, regardless of packages you sign up for, you get to select retail partners which include Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo and more.
MyeBook is a free web service that allows you to create, publish and get your inspirational content for the world to read. If you have a few eBooks that you want to sell, you can promote your ‘bookstore’ through a link (myeBook.com/my/username). With PayPal integration, your payments will also be smooth and hassle free.
Blurb has an online eBook creator to get you started. Edit and design your eBook on a simulated Apple iPad display. Once you’ve finished editing the content and design, your eBook will be ready to be sold on Blurb or the Apple iBookstore.
E-Junkie offers a simpler alternative to selling eBooks – sell them in PDF format. They also offer eBook security through ‘PDF Stamping’ where the buyers name, email address and transaction ID will be ‘stamped’ on the top right corner of each page to discourage unauthorized sharing your materials.
If you already have your eBook ready, you can list them at eBookMall and earn a percentage off every sale. eBookMall accepts both PDF and ePub formats.
eBooktIt takes you through the steps of converting your writing into a professional eBook to be distributed through major eBook retailers which include Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, Sony, Ingram, and Kobo..
ClickBank offers a unique online retail environment for digital products including eBooks. With a one-time product activation fee of $49.95, you are ready to promote your writings to more than 100,000 of ClickBank’s active affiliate marketers.
PayLoadz is a secure eCommerce service for downloadable digital goods including eBooks. Through the PayLoadz Store, your eBooks can be marketed to all PayLoadz users. The website has a reputation of tens of thousands of visitors today and is a great start to your eBook marketing campaign.
You’ll be able to publish and sell eBooks online without any startup costs. Click2Sell will store your eBook on secure servers and deliver it instantly to buyers after successful payment – everything will be done automatically for you. You will receive protection against illegal file sharing by customers as Click2Sell encrypts and protects it.
With Instabuck you can sell digital products which also includes eBooks. With a premium account you’ll get more features like product development and customer support handled for you. There is also an iOS app that you can use to keep track of your sales. With support of PayPay, ClickBank and AlertPay, money is instantly paid to you.
At Okadabooks, authors have been advised to set the price of their books at N100. According to Okadabooks, the author can make a ‘royalty’ of N20 for each copy of a book sold at N100. 70% of the proceeds go to the network providers and 10% goes to Okadabooks as commission. Send an epub version of your book or short story and a cover-page (in JPG) here http://okadabooks.com/publish. and your books will be instantly added to the library once uploaded
2 Comments
interesting list. http://www.prestige.ng is not bad in publishing your books in Nigeria.
Hi Ayobola!
Good news, but readers…scarce in Nigeria. Have any suggestion on how to make Nigerians interesting in reading than listening to music and watching movies?
Thanks.