How to publish a book (II): Selfpublishing Second part

In today's edition we continue where we stayed yesterday.

The last point commented on was the price, to continue, we will talk about the distributors.

Of course you can go through the bookstores taking a sample of your book, Spending time and gasoline so that in the end, if someone has it, you can see it in a corner with hardly any visibility. On the other hand if you are a good seller (you could have been commercial and you know the subject) and you are determined to venture, Please tell me the experience and give ideas to those who, like me, do not have the right knowledge.

Returning to the topic and knowing that you are not going to venture, we can contact the distributors, which normally work by regions or communities, depending on each one. In the internet we will find the great majority with whom we can negotiate.

Each distributor has its points of sale and agreed conditions. Until now it seemed that the numbers were very favorable and it was not so unreasonable to publish itself in this way, but let's go for the numbers:

From the outset, I can tell you that if you expect to get rich, complicated,Of the book's total PVP (We talked about € 17 in the previous post) The author receives approximately 40% If the copy has a price of € 17 in bookstores, € 6.52 is for the author (17€ – 4% de IVA = 16,32€ x 10% => 6,52€). It is true that we take more than an editorial, as it is usually 10% for the author.

It should be noted that all numbers are variable, But it is the usual average, you can always negotiate different conditions, although they have the last Word.

The other part of the cake will be taken by the distributors and the point of sale. In this case the percentages are usually distributed to 15% for the distributor and 45% for the point of sale.

Seeing this, novel authors do not usually self-publish by this mode. It is a very large investment for such a low profit, that in the best of cases it will be able to amortize the invested capital.

Now, if we decide to self-publish in a digital version the expenses are reduced by almost 70%, We must bear in mind that the dematerialization of the product contributes to greater sustainability and allows us to take a greater risk.

In this case, by uploading the ebook to platforms like iBooks or Amazon, We can even access Smashwords that they themselves will upload them to all available platforms (Soon I will give an overview of the application). In this way, although the price will be lower, the benefit will be greater, since we take between 85 and 90% of the PVP of the book.

Do you think everything about self-publishing has been discussed? Are you missing something or do you think you can contribute better data? Do you prefer ebook or paper? Do not hesitate to leave it in the comments and share it.