Book Haven discussion

Has anyone tried using PubIt to self publish their book?

no but i selfpublished my book on amazon.com for kindle.

Sonya wrote: "no but i selfpublished my book on amazon.com for kindle."

How did that work out for you? Did you make a decent profit? Did a lot of people buy your book?

nothing made yet. depressing but not sure what to do about it.

Pubit is very easy to use. You can put your book up there, on amazon, and on smashwords (which distributes to a lot of other places, like itunes and the sony reader store). Writing the book is much harder :). (Then there's marketing your book, and that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish!). Some authors make a very nice living selling their books. Some see very little.

i just put my book on bn.com. i'll check back in 3 days to see if it is on the site. Complete with the book cover image that is on the print edition.

What is the name of your book Sonya? I'll check it out on bn.com since I have a nook.

Using Pubit is easy. I've put two books up there without difficulty. The hard part is marketing a book to Nook users. Much harder than Amazon, especially since B&N doesn't put Pubit books in the "Customers Who Bought" rotation. For every book I sell on Pubit, I sell about 30 on Amazon. However, some books do get put in the B&N mailers and then those books take off, so a lot of it is pure luck over there.

my book is Obsessive Trap. the printed book price was set by my publisher. I re-set the nook price for $1.00. if you could write a little review it would help. thanks.

Not sure how to re-set the kindle price since it's out there already. Joy?

If you look at the forum it says that there is a way to change your ebook price on amazon, but I don't know how. :(

We used Pubit as well as Smashwords and CreateSpace; we found the level of control over each account (and ebook details) to be much better than relying on Smashwords alone! There is no cost to add a Kindle book to Createspace or a Pubit book, and results are pretty quick.

I also just discovered the B&N community at my.barnesandnoble.com, which has communities & forums & such - hoping that will be useful as well! You are welcome to email if you have specific questions; I am happy to help however I can! :)

Also a Pubit author. It's really quite easy to deal with. If you can upload a document, you're set to go.

I'm a huge fan of Smashwords, but as Briana pointed out, it's so easy to do Pubit yourself, and you get your information so much faster, it's not worth going through Smashwords for B&N.

One thing I do suggest, get your book set for Smashwords, send it through their meatgrinder process, and then if it goes through smoothly and looks good, upload to Kindle and B&N. If you've got a clean copy with Smashwords it's almost certain your work will look good on B&N and Amazon.

I've also uploaded my book for sale here on Goodreads as well, and that seemed to be a very easy process, too.

Yes, a friend did it for me. Said it was relatively easy. Can't hurt to do it. Nook is taking off.

I published some books on BN Pubit and Amazon-- I did pretty well in January but February has been dead. Anyone else have an experience like this?

Hi, I'm seeing a drop on Amazon this month.I have never used Pubit before. Does anyone have any sales figures that they would like to share? I did about 330 books sold last month on Amazon. This month, I will hit about 230 if things keep going the way they are.

I've published through Amazon for a couple of years and have tried to publish through PubIt for a year or so, but I find the latter much harder going. The publishing process is easy enough, it's the marketing that's tough!

On Amazon, there are ranking systems for reviewers that make people want to leave reviews, and tags that help with keyword searches, etc. Books are associated with other books like them, all of which help your novel to rise through the rankings.

For instance, within a few months of being published on Kindle, my book, "Robin: Lady of Legend (The Classic Adventures of the Girl Who Became Robin Hood)," quickly became a #1 bestseller and has stayed very popular. Yet two years later, I'm still struggling to get it going on B&N, mostly because of the difference in reviews. Over 300 readers have left comments on Amazon, but only 1 has bothered to do so with B&N. The difference in impact is staggering.

In summary: both Kindle and PubIt are easy platforms to publish through, but Amazon is much better set up for marketing (it also offers days you can sell your book for free if you join Kindle Select).