All of my paperbacks should be good to go now. If there are errors from here on out, blame the printer. If you didn't already know, all 17 of my books are available in paperback.
Amazon now offers the ability to make hardcovers of them all, but I don't see the point of creating hardcovers for them. I mean, there are probably people who prefer hardcover to paperback, but I have a feeling none of those people would prefer my books anyway. Generally speaking, most of my books are in genres that don't necessarily lend themselves to hardcover - paranormal mystery, crime noir, etc. are not what one would think of getting in a hardcover. Am I right? Perhaps Project Hermes would do well as a hardcover, but I'm not going to go through the process of creating a hardcover version and buying an author proof just to find out I'm wrong and no one wants it in HC.
To be honest, I can't remember the last time anyone bought a hardcopy of any of my books that I didn't personally hand sell. Which reminds me that I need to order copies of everything for stock, just in case I run into someone who's interested. It could happen. In fact, it happened last month. Woot.
I used to keep at least one copy of every one of my paperbacks in the trunk of my car for just such occasions. I'd be somewhere, chatting with someone and the subject of my books would come up. If they seemed really interested, I'd walk out to my car and come back with the book they were interested in. Something for them to hold and touch, which they would then buy - signed, of course. It didn't amount to a lot of money, but it's a nice feeling to hold your own book and then hand it over for cash.
Of course, they're also all available as ebooks. Right now, Kindle only and Kindle only for the foreseeable future, but they are available. I ran into someone who seemed interested, but she didn't own a Kindle. I just let her know that Amazon has apps for most any device to be able to read Kindle on them. She didn't know that, so yay. I'm not sure if she's actually bought anything or if that was just an excuse. :shrug:
They're all also available in Kindle Unlimited, which is garnering me some $$ here and there. I am making more there than I was having my books under wide distribution, so I'm glad I did that.
Speaking of wide distribution, I also don't have any of my paperbacks available wide. The various outlets for wide distribution make it so that I would have to charge an exorbitant amount of money for my books to clear any money at all through those outlets. I'm making very little money on my paperbacks as it is, just to keep the prices as low as I can.
Jus' sayin'.
Congrats of getting them all formatted up to date. Pretty sure that was a chore! Glad you are getting some page reads. I'm keeping my wide for now as I'm getting a little in from almost all the notable channels and the $$ is equal to or a bit more than what I bring in from the 'Zon each month. I do have one book in KU--Midnight Clear. That's because I got sick and still haven't gotten around to taking it off and getting it wide. With the Christmas season coming up, I should get on that, huh?
ReplyDeleteI also need to get the rest of mine set up in paperback. It's nice to have a hard copy sitting on the shelf just to make me feel good. LOLOL
Okay. I've dillied and dallied all morning and now a bit of the afternoon. I gotta get to work. Dang book ain't gonna edit itself!