Is it easy to sell ebooks on Kindle?

You can convert your books into electronic format and sell them in the Amazon Kindle store with our Kindle Direct Publishing self-publishing tool. Simply upload your content, enter sales copy and pricing information, and publish in minutes.

Is it possible to sell Kindle books?

Amazon has patented a means to sell used e-books within the Kindle system. A book will be branded within the system when it is bought, and when the buyer puts it up for resale at the Kindle store, it will be removed from his account and transferred to the buyer’s account. Amazon will receive a small fee for each sale.

How much do you get paid for a Kindle book?

For Kindle books priced from $0.99 to $2.98, you receive a 35\% royalty on each sale. For Kindle books priced from $2.99 to $9.99, you receive a 70\% royalty on each sale. For Kindle books priced above $9.99, you receive a 35\% royalty on each sale.

How much does the average book sell?

The average book in America sells about 500 copies. Those blockbusters are a minute anomaly: only 10 books sold more than a million copies last year, and fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000.

Do Kindle Unlimited authors get paid?

Authors whose titles are part of the Kindle Unlimited library are not paid by “purchase” or by “download”, instead they are paid by the total number of pages read in any given month. The payout for pages read has been around just under 1/2 a cent per page ($0.00488 per page to be exact) for over a year now.

How hard is it for authors to sell books on Kindle?

They sell all over the world and it can be fun to track copies sold in Japan, or India, or the U.K. Authors who actively promote their books and authors who don’t promote their books all sell something. Kindle represents 90\% of our eBook sales even though we also sell on GooglePlay, iBooks, Nook, and Kobo as well. It’s hard.

Will selling 7000 Kindle books make you rich?

Firstly I should point out that’s selling 7000 Kindle books will not make you rich. Most of the books I’ve sold were at the 99 cent price mark. The most expensive was $5.99. But every single one of those 7000 copies were paid downloads. I’ve also given away thousands of books, but I’ll come to that in a minute.

Can you sell books on Amazon with KDP?

You can’t sell books. You can only bring your books to the attention of book buyers. The most difficult task for all authors who are using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and selling books on Amazon is maintaining consistent book sales.

Do you need book sales to sell books on Amazon?

There is a catch 22 that applies to most new books listed on Amazon. It is that you need book sales to get book reviews, but you need book reviews to get sales. Then you need to get enough regular unit sales to keep a good sales rank so that you can sell more copies.