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Ask HN: If you self publish a book and sell via iBooks can you do well?

4 pointsby feroz1about 10 years ago
Hi guys,<p>I&#x27;ve put together a draft of a book - it&#x27;s a photo book with quotes from a bunch of inspiring people. The pictures are great, the quotes are cool and it&#x27;s about 100 pages long. I&#x27;ve created the book via blurb. My question is has anyone published this type of book (picture&#x2F;photo book) via the iBooks store? And if you have, did it do well?<p>I am not so interested in making money but instead getting eyeballs on it. Is iBooks a possible way forward do you think? Any other advice?<p>thanks!

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aurizonabout 10 years ago
Take a look at books like yours on iBook, compare price etc. If you self published = you get it all, less the 30% to Apple. If you have a publisher he will not use iBooks because their profit will be larger than his or yours.<p>Attracting the eyeballs to consider buying your book. That is what AMazon and iBooks does well, as do publishers. Eyeballs cosr $$ per click, 5 cents and upwards. Publishers usually give away a number of paper books to hope for good reviews. What does Amazon or iBooks do?<p>See if you can find some self publishing sites, with near zero fees and see how popular they are.