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Thank you
for your interest. Personal data
assistants (PDA's) have come a long way since Cartoon eBooks started
in 2002. I use my PDA to remind me of meetings, anniversaries, play
games, read books, plan projects, send email, read email, watch TV
shows and give me directions when I am driving in my car. My PDA can
do as much as my Laptop and desktop computers and more. Reading books is not something that's really caught on,
on desktops and laptops. But because PDA's are more portable than a
book they are growing in popularly. Like back lit screens so you can
read in the dark, bookmarks, built in dictionaries, just click on
the word and up comes the meaning, the list goes on. The most asked question I get from authors is "will my
eBook sell"? That's not an easy question to answer. But over the
years I have found that books with the following points do
sell.
- Your cartoon can not be on your web site for
people to read for free if you want to sell books.
- One book does not sell as well as a series of
books. Books in a series represent 98% of total sales each month
at Cartoon eBooks.
- And the most obvious thing, it must be
funny.
"So how does it work"?
would be your next question. The electronic way of selling books is
almost the same as selling books.
- You create your cartoons and submit them to
the publisher.
- The publisher decides weather to publish the
book or to pass.
- The book is created and submitted to the
author. (if he has a PC or PDA. Sorry no Mac yet)
- The author approves the book
- The publisher uploads the book to the DRM
server making it available to the eBook stores.
- The stores sell the books and pay the
publisher who then pays the author.
There are now over 40 eBook stores. The larger ones
are.
- Mobipocket. (Owned by Amazon)
- Fictionwise.
- Cyberread.
- Amazon. (Comming soon)
- Franklin Electronic Publishers.
Here are some
extra advantages to having your book as an eBook.
- As the publishing process is all electronic
the only cost in creating the book is time. Because of this
Cartoon eBooks will take the time to publish a book if it feels it
will sell. So with our standard agreement there is no upfront
publishing fees and no ongoing stocking fees and we do not deal
with any eBook store who does. If no books sell, no one gets paid.
If a book sells then everyone get a share. The store, publisher
and the author.
- Books are sold electronically. So sales of
books can be seen with in a few days of the sale.
- Books can be added to the series quickly. and
published on what ever day the author likes.
- When a book is published it is in the stores
in about a week. It does depend on how long the store takes to
pick up the book. On the Mobipocket site books are online
instantly.
- All eBook shops compete for the customer.
This is not like a bricks and mortar store with only 1 or 2 other
book shops in the mall. Every eBook customer can purchase an eBook
from any of the always growing number of shops. And just like
bricks and mortar shops they compete with price. Royalties are
paid on the recommended price of the book. So if a shop puts the
book on sale the author still is paid on the agreed recommended
retail price of the book.
- Royalties vary depending on the recommended
price.
- The retail price of a book can be changed and
put on sale at any time.
- No large upfront printing prices.
- Customers have there books instantly.
(depending on speed of there internet connection)
- Its much more cost effective to try a book as
an eBook. Giving you information on how it would sell as a print
book before making a printing commitment.
Something that has never really been a problem with a
printed book is security. Yes you can give them away after you have
read them or you can read them for free at your local library even
photo copy part or all of them but that's not something you can
control with print books. Its very different with eBooks. When
you think of a computer file everyone knows computer files can be
copied and emailed to friends. This can be done with your eBook as
well however the recipient will not be able to read the book. When
an eBook is sold it is encoded with the serial number of your device
which you have given the web site. The eBook then can only be read
on your own PDA. The reader program will not open the book if the
number of the book does not match the PDA that's trying to open it.
Something the Mobipocket reader does better than other readers and
is the most transparent to the customer. Other readers all you have
to do is enter a number which is just the numbers of your credit
card. Cartoon eBooks has tried to make
getting your book published as easy and cost effective as possible
but if you are looking just to get your book converted and you are
going to look after marketing, hosting and selling your eBook
yourself then we also have a conversion service. For more information on any of the above or to submit a
sample Click here to go to our
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