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Audiobooks can open up new markets and revenue streams for self published authorsbut, as with all things indie, youll have to put in plenty of time, effort, and money. Select the territories where you hold distribution rights. There are many platforms on which you can self publish your novel as an ebook. Global ebook publishing on walmart with kobo has partnered with kobo to deliver six million ebook titles to readers in 190 countries. On kobo, you can set a sale price or do an ebook giveaway. And if you arent already distributing to kobo, its as simple as checking a box on the publish tab of your book. Selfpublishing on kindle and amazon kdp and other retailers. Selling books at kobo and publishing news with mark. In fact, kobo s beta merchandising tool is available for englishlanguage books. But, if you enroll your ebook into kdp select, you cannot publish the book anywhere else for 90 days. In practical terms, this means uploading your ebook file to the major eretailers, namely. How to publish your ebook with kobo book publishing for. These are the best online stores and distributors for your print on demand books.
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Every book published through kobo writing life undergoes our qa process and because no book is perfect, some will be rejected. If your book has already been published before you can enter the original publication date here. We make it easy to selfpublish your books and provide help and guidance every. Your books will disappear from kobo within 24 hours my experience on draft2digital or it may take 24 years just kidding. The highest paid authors on amazon have a series of books and have spent years building that up. Begun as a toronto startup, kobo was purchased by a japanese corporation and is a global ebook seller. Ebook publishing with ingramspark selfpublish your ebook. They will help you turn your book into an audiobook thanks to their partnership listenup audio. When you choose bookbaby ebook publishing, we keep 0% of your royalties.
So im glad i did this, but dont expect a followup book anytime soon. Well add it to the kobo catalogue within 72 hours and keep it. Unpublishing from draft2digital or smashwords is easy. Just create a kobo writing life account, upload your manuscript, and set the price.
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