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    Going Wide Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #3
    Going Wide Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #3
    Going Wide Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #3
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    Going Wide Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #3

    By Patty Jansen

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    A companion guide to Self-publishing Unboxed and Mailing Lists Unboxed, for those who want to start selling on all ebook platforms.

    In this book, you will learn:

    • The major non-Amazon platforms and their quirks
    • Tips about promoting your books and increasing non-Amazon sales
    • The greatest hack for maintaining website pages with multiple retailer links.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatty Jansen
    Release dateOct 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386678601
    Going Wide Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #3
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    Patty Jansen

    Patty lives in Sydney, Australia, and writes both Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has published over 15 novels and has sold short stories to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact.Patty was trained as a agricultural scientist, and if you look behind her stories, you will find bits of science sprinkled throughout.Want to keep up-to-date with Patty's fiction? Join the mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/qqlAbPatty is on Twitter (@pattyjansen), Facebook, LinkedIn, goodreads, LibraryThing, google+ and blogs at: http://pattyjansen.com/

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      Going Wide Unboxed - Patty Jansen

      Going Wide Unboxed

      Going Wide Unboxed

      The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 3

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      Contents

      1. Terror and Trepidation!

      2. Who Is This Book For?

      3. Step Into The World

      4. The First Step

      5. Aggregator or Direct?

      6. Kobo

      7. Barnes & Noble

      8. Apple

      9. Google Play

      10. Smashwords

      11. Aggregators and Small Sites

      12. What Is Next?

      13. Driving Sales

      14. Best Hack to Website Content

      15. The Power Of High

      16. The Price Matching Monster

      17. The Retailer As Content Delivery Site

      18. The Right Mindset Wins

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      One

      Terror and Trepidation!

      O.M.G.

      You have unticked that auto-renew box for Select in your KDP dashboard.

      After a few seconds of exhilaration—I’m no longer a slave to a single retailer!—the fear sets in.

      What do I actually DO? How do my books SELL? There is so much stuff to do and set up and I don’t get any of it. And I don’t even get how people find books on these other sites and it’s all so WEIRD.

      Help!

      Fortunately, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve been selling books wide since 2011, was never able to get any traction in Select, through reasons that will become clear in this book. Non-Amazon sales have accounted for anywhere between 40 and 80 percent of my monthly income.

      But, a word of warning: going wide is a mindset, and will require you to examine everything you do, from how you source your mailing list to where you advertise.

      Two

      Who Is This Book For?

      THIS BOOK IS a service to my writer friends and anyone who is interested in taking their books to a worldwide audience in many different stores as opposed to being exclusive on Amazon.

      For some reason, going wide strikes fear in the hearts of many. It is the great unknown, the morass, and it looks like so much work.

      Yet, at any one time there is usually some form of panic going on about declining sales on Amazon, about declining page reads, scammers in Kindle Unlimited, or any combination of those things.

      This is a book for people who are sick of the fearmongering, who are sick of worrying about what happens on Amazon, who want to stop caring about rankings and that a single bad review will torpedo your career. This is a book for people who want to see themselves as global citizens and invest time in building a more solid sales base that can support a longer lasting career, without having to fork out

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