UPDATE (19 FEB 2012): It’s been a year, including a holiday season, since I first put the book on Kindle and six months since the Nook and iTunes versions went live. In that time, I’ve found Nook sales to be very underwhelming, iTunes to be decent, and Amazon to far exceed expectations.
As I write a couple more books, including one using Apple’s new iBooks Author program, some lessons learned include making Nook my lowest priority, that the new iBooks Author program is heaven-sent for formatting and layout (though with the drawback of availability limited to only iPad owners, at least for now), that program updates (i.e. Pages for Mac) have made it easier to save to the .epub format, and that Amazon is currently the utter key to sales success in online publishing. Thanks for your time, please feel free to post your thoughts below.
[ORIGINAL POST] Finally! After eight months of on-again, off-again work, the print version of my ‘Axis of Evil’ travel book is available in versions for Kindle, iTunes/iBook, and Nook. I did the process myself (I’ve done both self and traditionally published books, and the more experience I get, the more I prefer self-publishing), which required time to figure out the various formatting and submission requirements but provided some insights. I’ll highlight my lessons learned, for both readers and writers, below.
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