Writing.Com General Discussion

With Amazon, you can publish as eBook alone, or add Print-On-Demand for people who want to hold the real thing in their hands. Note that with POD your royalties on printed versions take a nose-dive as the cost of printing and materials eat away at the book price.

Don't forget also that there are a million other eBooks available on Amazon, so unless you only want to sell half a dozen copies a year, you'll have to think about advertising, and that will take a lot of work.

I'm not trying to put you off. If you can get your book noticed and if it's good, you can do very well out of it with the higher royalties, and several indie writers have gone on to do very well for themselves. Make sure that the grammar is up to scratch, that you know the difference between story and plot (and include both), and that the text is as polished as you can possibly make it. If it doesn't look like it came from a publishers stable, it will easily fail.