Slow Progress When Going It Alone
The one thing that you don't realize when you go to self-publish ebooks, is the time it can take to get your book into all the outlets Amazon only delays your publishing by hours, so that is good, but that is only one retailer. Smashwords has it as soon as the upload finishes, but to get it to all the retailers they distribute to takes time. In the case of Well of Dreams, it has been over a month and it hasn't started appearing yet. It hasn't even shipped to all of them.
But compared to how long it would take to get to this same place by the traditional publishing world, I have no complaints. It just is longer than I expected. What this means is that in the future, I will have to plan my release schedule better. Since it will appear on Smashwords, I'll use that to get it to early reviewers and then time the Amazon release to be closer to the other retailers and wait to advertise until they are all up. Based on what I've seen so far, that is my current plan.
But then there is Amazon's KDP Select. I haven't tried that yet, but I plan to. I have written a novella that I am currently in the final critique and editing phase on that I plan on publishing with KDP Select to see how that goes. That requires a 90 day commitment to have the title at Amazon exclusively. With the delay in going through Smashwords to other retailers, that is more like 120-130 days before customers of other retailers will have a chance to read it. I'll have to see if that is a better option for future books. I don't intend to publish my next new title until summer and I should have a good feel if the KDP Select will be of any use by that time.
This business of self-e-publishing is a time-consuming options, but so far is well worth it.
But compared to how long it would take to get to this same place by the traditional publishing world, I have no complaints. It just is longer than I expected. What this means is that in the future, I will have to plan my release schedule better. Since it will appear on Smashwords, I'll use that to get it to early reviewers and then time the Amazon release to be closer to the other retailers and wait to advertise until they are all up. Based on what I've seen so far, that is my current plan.
But then there is Amazon's KDP Select. I haven't tried that yet, but I plan to. I have written a novella that I am currently in the final critique and editing phase on that I plan on publishing with KDP Select to see how that goes. That requires a 90 day commitment to have the title at Amazon exclusively. With the delay in going through Smashwords to other retailers, that is more like 120-130 days before customers of other retailers will have a chance to read it. I'll have to see if that is a better option for future books. I don't intend to publish my next new title until summer and I should have a good feel if the KDP Select will be of any use by that time.
This business of self-e-publishing is a time-consuming options, but so far is well worth it.
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