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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem with Kindles is that yours book shave to work with both KF8 and Mobi. You can have lots of fun trying to make your eBooks work with obsolete Mobi because what you want ot do works well in KF8, but poorly or not at all with Mobi.
(IMHO) Amazon needs to make it such that you can have eBooks that are KF8. it would solve the problem.
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The whole amazon dilemma (or fiasco) was pretty much the clincher in what burst my whole bubble about ever really making any money from ebooking. I try really hard to make my books elegant, with reasonably-"pretty" designs, and that's really fairly easy to do for iBooks -- but not at all for amazon, as I said earlier it's a veritable nightmare to do.
The problem with going with just iBooks, though, is no sales! I think in my first year I made a whopping $7 or $8 in "profits" -- hardly any sales at all, even with my price set to the very lowest (99 cents). Granted, I didn't exactly have the latest Stephen King thriller or some other bestseller under my belt, but still... and so in the end, I said screw it, and now I just do ebooks simply for the fun of it, the joy of it, and just give them away for free (on iBooks only). At least NOW people are downloading them.
This was all very, very disappointing for me, though. I'm on disability, and I had high hopes that this might be a way for me to bring in a little extra money. Instead, it's become merely a hobby -- one that I love, and at least now I can do whatever I want, whatever sparks my "passion" at any moment (currently Shakespeare). Maybe that is, in fact, the biggest pay-off that I could ask for?
No "little extra money," though.
