Has anyone had success with publishing an e-book?
A while back I wanted to publish a small book to read to kids with a Japanese cultural theme.
The book I created has a simple storyline and was designed to achieve a few personal goals.
- The Story of Kimonobox on Smashwords
Firstly, to provide another dimension to my blog
Secondly, to test the technology
Thirdly, to see if e-books are really a desirable product or too ahead of their time and
Fourthly, the creative element of getting an original product into the market place.
My experience with the e-book so far has been frustrating. Amazon digital market place only allows you to upload content if you have a US bank account, tax file number and mailing address. Sony reader wants you to have a US phone number. Issue is great but doesnt provide a way to make the product commercial.
I have finally used smashwords to publish the ebook. What are your thoughts?
As an author, I quite like this system.
- Snaps of the story
Have you published an e-book? What are your experiences?
Here are some snaps of the story, Kimonobox.
Any advice on e-book publishing?
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アドバイス求む！日本在住のこの人がeブックを出そうと思ったけど、米国の銀行口座や電話番号が無いので出せなかったそうです。誰か知っている？良い方法、、、http://tinyurl.com/yk62jvl
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I have been publishing my art, photo books, and others on my Issuu site since the beginning of last year and have had about 14,000 hits. I love the Issuu site. I also do the same on Scribd site.
From both these sites you can publish to your blog and now Posterous. I love the new Posterous, publishing directly from emails or a browser tool bar.
I wish I could directly post to Japundit, it just makes life quicker and easier. Ed are you reading this?
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I just love your on-line book and it deserves to do well. I will be looking in to purchasing a printed version for my little girl over here in Melbourne. Are they being delivered overseas as yet?
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Fantastic to hear
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Hi Kimonobox, great site! (adds rss)
Ive recently embarked on creating a website on Japan and while its still early days I considered monitization options before.
One of which being the e-book. Ive been trying to figure out how profitable an e-book could be but it seems all the successful ones are ‘how to guides’!
It seems youre more interested in story books but I recently came across a podcast interview with a guy that creates e-books for a living on the internet. It may benefit you
Im trying to see how I could use this approach with niche books on Japan.
Free download btw -
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/1044/niche-profit-classroom/
Many thanks AndyMac. Much appreciated feedback. We originally launched the book as part of the Kimonobox blog brand but have received a lot of favourable comments and a lot of views in the first week already. We will keep readers up to date on a printed version. Stay tuned! All the best.