Brief Overview of Ebook Publishing Options

Amazon, Smashwords, Lulu, Fast Pencil, Publish Green, Scribd, Barnes and Noble Pub-it. The pros and cons of each are spelled out here.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20010547-82/how-to-self-publish-an-ebook/

Step By Step To Selling Ebooks

I do not necessarily endorse this advice. I think it is much better to sell one's books via Amazon or Barnes and Noble. But I could be wrong.
http://www.ebookapprentice.com/sell/index.html

The Final, Conclusive, Ultimate Conclusion and An All-Encompassing Summary of The Kindle Vs. Nook Battle Royale

But you'll end up with whatever they gave you for Christmas.

http://www.kindlevsnookreviews.com/

Book Sales Down in All Categories Except....

Ebooks!!!

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/ebook-sales-up-116-in-august_b17180

Smashwords: Worth Looking Into

Smashwords is a flexible ebook publishing and distribution site. We seek feedback from authors who have used their services. http://www.smashwords.com/

USA Today Article About One Writer Who Found Success After 25 Books

"USA Today" article about a struggling writer who finds success via electronic publishing.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2011-12-14/self-published-authors-ebooks/51851058/1

Ebook Market Driven By Genre Fiction

According to "The Guardian" ebook sales are being driven by low brow electronic pulp.

                           

Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction

Publishers face secrecy over sales and an absence of industry-wide data to help them plot strategy

 

      

The word on the street … a woman reads an ebook while travelling on a bus. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.
The ebook world is driven by so-called genre fiction, categories such as horror or romance. It's not future classics that push digital sales, but more downmarket fare. No cliche is left unturned, no adjective underplayed. At the time of writing, the bestselling Amazon Kindle book was Asylum Harbor, by Traci Hohenstein. Crime sells. Try a sample, I dare you. In digital, dross rises. But does this have implications for publishers' decision-making, as we increasingly migrate?
One of the problems publishers face in setting strategy is the absence of industry-wide data on ebook sales. Amazon, the dominant player, is secretive with its numbers. As the company revealed its mixed results for 2011 last week, all its UK division would say was that ebook sales over the past three months were up five-fold on the equivalent period last year. No actual data.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/05/ebook-sales-downmarket-genre

I want to make a quick introduction, I am BookBabe333 currently I have a lot of skepticism regarding Kindle,Nook, etc. I believe books will always be favored over the electronic devices. I find it mind boggling when I walk into a Barnes and Noble and see people reading there Nook in the bookstore. I sometimes wonder what our libaries are going to consist of in a few year. The library will be filled with computers and devices instead of books. Just a quick food for thought......