Hi everyone,
Hope you’re all doing well. Thanks a lot for checking out this post.
I’m curious if any of you sell self-published books from your website and how successful that has been for you. I know as illustrators we may not have that duty necessarily, but I figured that some people here who are author/illustrators might be working hard to sell books.
Will Terry has a really great series going on youtube right now about his self-published book “Pickleball Paul”. He’s building a website from which to sell hardcover copies of his book, if I understand correctly. Only paperbacks are print-on-demand and available on Amazon. He’s also offering some extras that will be available on his site, like some nice “color-able” posters.
I’m sure this will go great for Will. He has a lot of ways set up for people to find his book on his website, and I think we can all assume that he’s made a high-quality product. Not to mention the ripe niche market he’s tapping.
It sounds like a great idea to sell books from a website, especially if you can offer things like signed copies or unique bonus products. It’s potentially a good way to earn more profit too. But… what if you have no following, no mailing list, and it’s your first book?
Do you have experience, or know of people having success, drawing customers to a website to buy a self-published book?
If you’re doing it yourself, what have you learned?
I’d love to see other websites from which people are selling their own books. If you have examples and feel like sharing that would be a great help to me.
Thank you so much!!