The debate between eBooks vs print books continues. When deciding
between eBooks vs print books there are a few things to consider
depending on whether you are a reader, author, or both.
Paper is rarely accepted at publishing firms anymore and publishing firms' standards have increased. In fact, a publishing firm that is still willing to accept paper novels is a publishing that doesn't have many days left in its life and here's why.
The Old Class
There are many who still prefer the paperback book or novel to the digital novel because of three things. The paperback doesn't require a battery operated machine to read. The paperback has a unique smell to the inside page of its novel and, just like wine, the older a paperback gets the sweeter it will smell. The last issue is that these readers are so used to reading paperbacks that reading a digital book to them is like changing the way they have to breathe. The truth is that you can still produce paperbacks on demand but in order to do this, you still need the digital copy or eBook saved on the computer so that the on demand service can be on demand.
As an author, there's a good and bad aspect with digital eBooks. For one, there's a challenge to get noticed whereas before all you had to do was get accepted into a firm. Now you have to compete with millions of people trying to make it big with their first novel. However, this also means that you don't have to meet a firm's standards if you want to self-publish.
The True Money
The truth is that even though you don't have to go through a firm it's still best to use a firm that likes your category to grade your work. Once you can get accepted, that's when you know that your material will sell if you self-publish. The best part about this is now that you have been accepted by a firm, you can go back to your rejected novels and see the difference, which will allow you to change them to a sell-able value.
The true money is in self-publishing because once you gathering a following, nearly all of the money will go straight to you. In the past, firms were able to cut you down to only a twenty percent profit and you had to pay for start-up costs. With self-publishing, those costs nearly evaporate and the average payback is seventy-five percent.
Little do people know but the real money is still in paperback, it's just that you can choose on demand printing rather than printing up 30,000 copies in advance. The paperback and hardback versions will make you nearly fifty percent more money than the digital version because paperback is becoming a rarity. Those that went the digital route and didn't bother linking their digital book to a paperback book will be put in a different category that your book is in.
The One Book Rule
The One-Hit wonder days for books are gone and the standard amount of novels that you need to come out with before you can expect to see any real money is around five to six novels. This is because there's so many digital books that you need to advertise with your first couple of books before you can get a following. In the past, one book that was fantastic was all that you needed because of how slow it took to get books to market. Many power-novelists will write eight to ten novels in the first couple of years so that they can get a solid base.
Knowing this before you begin writing a novel will save you a ton of time and money, because you can go to multiple areas to sit down and write at a computer. Paperback is still in business but you still want to have the digital version so that you can mass publish your works. In short, it is best to offer your book in print and as an eBook... and let's not forget audio book too! Providing multiple ways to consume your material only increases its marketability.
Paper is rarely accepted at publishing firms anymore and publishing firms' standards have increased. In fact, a publishing firm that is still willing to accept paper novels is a publishing that doesn't have many days left in its life and here's why.
The Old Class
There are many who still prefer the paperback book or novel to the digital novel because of three things. The paperback doesn't require a battery operated machine to read. The paperback has a unique smell to the inside page of its novel and, just like wine, the older a paperback gets the sweeter it will smell. The last issue is that these readers are so used to reading paperbacks that reading a digital book to them is like changing the way they have to breathe. The truth is that you can still produce paperbacks on demand but in order to do this, you still need the digital copy or eBook saved on the computer so that the on demand service can be on demand.
As an author, there's a good and bad aspect with digital eBooks. For one, there's a challenge to get noticed whereas before all you had to do was get accepted into a firm. Now you have to compete with millions of people trying to make it big with their first novel. However, this also means that you don't have to meet a firm's standards if you want to self-publish.
The True Money
The truth is that even though you don't have to go through a firm it's still best to use a firm that likes your category to grade your work. Once you can get accepted, that's when you know that your material will sell if you self-publish. The best part about this is now that you have been accepted by a firm, you can go back to your rejected novels and see the difference, which will allow you to change them to a sell-able value.
The true money is in self-publishing because once you gathering a following, nearly all of the money will go straight to you. In the past, firms were able to cut you down to only a twenty percent profit and you had to pay for start-up costs. With self-publishing, those costs nearly evaporate and the average payback is seventy-five percent.
Little do people know but the real money is still in paperback, it's just that you can choose on demand printing rather than printing up 30,000 copies in advance. The paperback and hardback versions will make you nearly fifty percent more money than the digital version because paperback is becoming a rarity. Those that went the digital route and didn't bother linking their digital book to a paperback book will be put in a different category that your book is in.
The One Book Rule
The One-Hit wonder days for books are gone and the standard amount of novels that you need to come out with before you can expect to see any real money is around five to six novels. This is because there's so many digital books that you need to advertise with your first couple of books before you can get a following. In the past, one book that was fantastic was all that you needed because of how slow it took to get books to market. Many power-novelists will write eight to ten novels in the first couple of years so that they can get a solid base.
Knowing this before you begin writing a novel will save you a ton of time and money, because you can go to multiple areas to sit down and write at a computer. Paperback is still in business but you still want to have the digital version so that you can mass publish your works. In short, it is best to offer your book in print and as an eBook... and let's not forget audio book too! Providing multiple ways to consume your material only increases its marketability.
