Selling Books from Your Author Website, With Sacha Black and Orna Ross: Self-Publishing Fiction & Nonfiction Podcast
In this month\u2019s Fiction & Nonfiction Self-Publishing Salon, Sacha Black and Orna Ross outline the advantages and downsides of selling books directly to readers from your own author website and consider the implications for exclusivity with platforms like KDP Select.\xa0
You'll learn:
- The tools you need
- How to cope with global taxes
- How to add other products and services, in addition to your books
- How to combine direct selling with selling on other platforms
- Best practices for direct selling
If you want to develop an independent sales method that gives you more money and a closer connection to your readers, this salon's for you.
Our fiction and nonfiction salon is brought to you by sponsor Izzard Ink.
Find more author advice, tips and tools at our\xa0Self-publishing Author Advice Center:\xa0https://selfpublishingadvice.org, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts, and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need.
And, if you haven\u2019t already, we invite you to\xa0join our organization\xa0and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at\xa0http://allianceindependentauthors.org.
About the Hosts
Sacha Black\xa0is a bestselling and competition-winning author. She\xa0writes the popular YA Fantasy\xa0Eden East\xa0novels and a series of non-fiction books that are designed to help writers develop their craft. Sacha has been a long-time resident writing coach for website\xa0Writers Helping Writers. She is also a developmental editor, wife and mum.
Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller\u2019s \u201c100 top people in publishing\u201d. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. For more information about Orna, visit her website: http://www.ornaross.com