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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by mikecane on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @11:30AM (#2031640)
eBooks are my thing so let me save you time and energy: Format it for Kindle and sell it via Amazon, PERIOD. That's where people go to buy eBooks, period. They have at least 80% of the market and it's not worth it to try to fight that. Most of your customers are bound to have Kindles too.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by jmeyers on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @02:25PM (#2032167)
Excellent idea, it never occurred to me to try and sell this on Amazon. I think in the spirit of "bootstrapping" this would be step 2 or 3 on the list due to the start up costs.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by ScottWhigham on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @07:32PM (#2033085)
It never occurred to you to sell your ebook on Amazon? I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything but whoa.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by jmeyers on Thursday December 23, 2010 @08:10AM (#2034299)
No offense taken.

I will be the first one to admit that I don't know everything. It never occurred to me, in part, because I had misconceptions about the barriers to entry. Those misconceptions have been corrected because of this post.

Simply put, I thought it would be more expensive to publish on Amazon. :)

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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by mikecane on Thursday December 23, 2010 @11:02AM (#2034751)
You were probably thinking of print, not eBook.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by dwc on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @11:44AM (#2031672)
Do you have advice on publishing elsewhere in addition to Amazon? Specifically, are there exclusivity restrictions that must be negotiated away, etc.?
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by mikecane on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @12:11PM (#2031744)
The only exclusivity Amazon demands is price-matching. You can't sell it lower than Amazon, period. You can still put it at Barnes & Noble, if you want, or the iBookstore. Note those are ePub, not Kindle, formats. But if either of them drop the price, Kindle will too.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book by dwc on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:25AM (#2034608)
Hey, that sounds quite reasonable. Thanks.
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