Find them by heading to your iTunes Connect page, selecting “My Books,” clicking on the book, and clicking on the “Promo Codes” button. You do need to be uploading direct to iBooks in order to access the promo codes. Your non-tech-savvy readers will thank you for this, and it may make it easier for you to get iBooks specific reviews. Lots of people, from authors to e-tailers and distributors, have mentioned that pre-orders can really boost sales and rankings in the non-Amazon stores, where the sales help with release day visibility, but you may not have realized that Apple lets you give away copies of your book without the hassle of emailing people your files. Use their promo codes + pre-orders to launch with a boost and lots of reviews If you have audiobooks, you stand to earn more, too, on those affiliate sales.Ģ. I’ve used affiliate links with Amazon all along, and in addition to providing a small extra source of income, it gives you a means of tracking book sales that originate from your site and newsletters.
How to sell your books in ibooks update#
I’ve finally gotten myself signed up and will use affiliate links for my own books going forward (someday, when I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll go back and update all of the links for my existing books on here too). Sign up for the Apple Affliate program and link to your iBooks on your website, newsletters, and from within your own ebooks.Įvery author should post their book links to all of the main stores, so I won’t spend much time on that, but you may not know that Apple, like Amazon, has an affiliate program. So, in short, Apple has a huge audience and they’re looking for indies to promote right now.Īll right, here’s the list of things you can do to improve sales, with or without access to those promo opportunities:ġ. I did that with B&N this summer, and I’m on their promo list now.
have reps, it may be as easy as walking up to their booths and putting your name and email address on a sign-up sheet. Book Expo America, RWA, etc.) where Apple, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc. If you’re able to go to any of the bigger conventions (i.e. If you use a distributor to get into Apple, I’ve heard of authors getting in touch with the Draft 2 Digital and Smashwords people and asking about promotions (it probably helps if you’ve got several books out and are selling some already). How do you get on their radar and receive email about the opportunities they’re offering? Romance, in particular, seems to get a lot of love there, but there are plenty of self-published authors represented in other genres too. Beyond adding the iBooks reader to their OS, they’ve been reaching out to more indies and running themed promotions in the various genres. The good news for authors is that in addition to all this sales potential, Apple seems to be making more of an effort these days to promote and sell their iBooks. There are a lot of countries where an e-reader or tablet is too much of a luxury item for the average person go buy, but everyone gets a phone, and the iBooks reader comes pre-loaded on the Apple IOS (Google Play will be another market to watch out for, since they, too, are tied to a phone - I’m starting to get emails from readers who have enjoyed my books on their Androids). They (and their iPhones) are all over the place. Many of the sales I get there come from countries outside of the U.S.
If you’ve found any tricks for improving visibility and sales at Apple, let us know!ĭespite Apple being my fourth biggest income earner, it’s reputedly the second biggest market out there, so the potential for growth may be much more than at Kobo and B&N.Īlso, Apple has global reach. I hope you’ll find the information helpful. So this post is a summary/best practices from my notes.
(The authors hosting it were rock stars on iBooks, with some outselling even the big Amazon kahuna.) I chatted with a rep from Apple and got some tips, and I also took notes at a “sell more ebooks at Apple” panel this summer at the RWA con. (For me, sales at Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble always come out ahead.) Buuut, I’ve started to upload directly to Apple, and I plan to put more effort into getting on the radar with iBooks readers in 2016. Before I jump into this post, I have to disclose that Apple is my #4 earner and that while I always sell books there, I’m not a rock star by any means.
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