Pinger030
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- Oct 15, 2013
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Hey staycalm38,
I've started with non fiction in 2014 but then I switched to fiction for a year -just to give it a try- and published about 100 short stories (10-15k word/book; erotic love stories). I've realised that the income of my fiction books isn't stable enough for the long term success + I can't see other business opportunities for the future (eg. to sell own digital or physical products on a wibesite, to make money with affiliate products, advertising etc.) That's just my opinion and I don't want to say that you can't have success with fiction. But it's definitely not my passion so I switched back to non fiction and founded my own publishing company to compete with the big publishing companies + make money outside of Amazon by the traffic of my books. That's just possible with really high quality but I'm optimistic because I already had two #100 books in the past (overall ranking/paperbacks).
Now back to your question:
> If you're not financial free you should focus on quantity. With this strategy you'll split the risk, collect experience and improve your skills. On the other hand you have to be clear that this is only for the short and middle term success. You should improve the quality from book to book.
> If you're financial free you should focus on quality instead of quantity for the long term success. Don't care anymore about the quick bucks (even it's working for you) because there's much more to earn in the long run.
A series is a good way to combine both strategies. On the one hand you can publish smaller books and actively make money (for the short term sucess) and at the end you can bundle the whole series + maybe improve the layout, add photos, give bonus content etc. to create a high quality book (for the long term success). Create a good concept for your series that makes sense (random book bundles doesn't work for me).
At least:
- It's clear that a small number of pages doesn't mean low quality. But the customers can't see the value of a book. They just see the page count. I think a book with 6k pages is way too small even if you just focusing on the short term sucess. The sales will dry too fast so you will tread on a spot someday. Additionally you'll not be able to create paperbacks with less than 10k words because a papberback with less than 80 pages doesn't feel like a book (it feels more like a thin booklet). You'll definitely disappoint your customers = bad reviews.
- You should focus on a few pen names (maybe one per niche for the beginning) and branding these (eg. with strong biographies, social media, book trailers on your author page, logos etc.)
- Stay in one market and publish in different niches. Let's say your market is "relationships": You can create a pen name who's writing about friendships. A second pen name is writing about what womens really want. A third pen name is writing about family living. At the end you just need one email list, one facebook page, one twitter account, one website etc. to promote all your pen names/books. This makes more sense than to switch between the markets. So don't run the money afterwards and choose the market that you really like. Every maket has good niches and there's more than enough to earn.
I've started with non fiction in 2014 but then I switched to fiction for a year -just to give it a try- and published about 100 short stories (10-15k word/book; erotic love stories). I've realised that the income of my fiction books isn't stable enough for the long term success + I can't see other business opportunities for the future (eg. to sell own digital or physical products on a wibesite, to make money with affiliate products, advertising etc.) That's just my opinion and I don't want to say that you can't have success with fiction. But it's definitely not my passion so I switched back to non fiction and founded my own publishing company to compete with the big publishing companies + make money outside of Amazon by the traffic of my books. That's just possible with really high quality but I'm optimistic because I already had two #100 books in the past (overall ranking/paperbacks).
Now back to your question:
> If you're not financial free you should focus on quantity. With this strategy you'll split the risk, collect experience and improve your skills. On the other hand you have to be clear that this is only for the short and middle term success. You should improve the quality from book to book.
> If you're financial free you should focus on quality instead of quantity for the long term success. Don't care anymore about the quick bucks (even it's working for you) because there's much more to earn in the long run.
A series is a good way to combine both strategies. On the one hand you can publish smaller books and actively make money (for the short term sucess) and at the end you can bundle the whole series + maybe improve the layout, add photos, give bonus content etc. to create a high quality book (for the long term success). Create a good concept for your series that makes sense (random book bundles doesn't work for me).
At least:
- It's clear that a small number of pages doesn't mean low quality. But the customers can't see the value of a book. They just see the page count. I think a book with 6k pages is way too small even if you just focusing on the short term sucess. The sales will dry too fast so you will tread on a spot someday. Additionally you'll not be able to create paperbacks with less than 10k words because a papberback with less than 80 pages doesn't feel like a book (it feels more like a thin booklet). You'll definitely disappoint your customers = bad reviews.
- You should focus on a few pen names (maybe one per niche for the beginning) and branding these (eg. with strong biographies, social media, book trailers on your author page, logos etc.)
- Stay in one market and publish in different niches. Let's say your market is "relationships": You can create a pen name who's writing about friendships. A second pen name is writing about what womens really want. A third pen name is writing about family living. At the end you just need one email list, one facebook page, one twitter account, one website etc. to promote all your pen names/books. This makes more sense than to switch between the markets. So don't run the money afterwards and choose the market that you really like. Every maket has good niches and there's more than enough to earn.
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