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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I would challenge you, again, to use the Amazon DTP, the B&N Pub It!, and whatever you use to get your title onto Sony Store and Kobobooks and Smashwords and Waterstones and WHSmith and Fictionwise and Booksonboard et al ... and then promote your book through your normal channels with links to all ebook vendors ... and then in six months report back to us where the majority of sales are and which channel has produced the most net profit for you, the author.
I'd be astounded to learn Amazon wasn't your best meal ticket: most gross revenue, most reviews, most word-of-mouth, most net revenue, most sell-through to additional titles ....
Will you take the challenge?
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If I may, I have some knowledge in this area. I produce eBooks for authors and publishers (micro- to mid-size). I produce Kindle versions and ePUBs, and I strongly push my authors to market to the ePUB market as well as Amazon. I've put their books on Nooks, on Kobos, on iBooks, Diesel, Books on Board...hell, everywhere that sells ePUBs.
But at the end of the day, the Kindle versions, priced identically to the ePUB versions, outsell significantly. In general, my clients sell 1.5 books on Nook for every 10 they sell on Amazon, which statistically is about right, as Nook has 12% of the eBook market. The other vendors
together add up to about as many books per day as Nook...so 1.5 ePUBs per day from the other ePUB vendors (including Apple). So...3 ePUBs for every 10 mobi's, is the rough ratio.
I expect this to change as the iBookstore grows, but right now, those are the numbers, at least, those are the numbers my fairly solid mid-listing authors get on those vendors. I've just signed a NYT bestselling author as a production client, though, for his/her backlist...so I may be surprised when his/her books hit the e-tailers; we'll see.
FWIW, I have both a K2 Kindle and an iPad; I read on both; I love ePUBs for everything I can do, formatting-wise, that can't be done with a Kindle; BUT, having said that, nobody makes publishing easier for the DIY author than Kindle, and sales-wise, they really are the 900-lb. gorilla.
HTH,
Hitch