How to price e-books

On Instabuck we do care about your earnings and we want to provide you with good tools to maximize them. The following article aims to help with this.

Writing as a passion is fulfilled when you pen down your thoughts on papers but selling the same is not easy. People who love to read online books, also called eBooks, look for a book which is priced according to its value or the content it holds.

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Publishers in 2012: Doomed or blessed?

Are publishers doomed?

One of the main reasons that users love Amazon’s Kindle is that they can take notes on what they are reading and search with a couple of clicks for a specific excerpt across all their e-books. Apple caught the drift and took a step further by introducing iBooks 2 and the interactive textbooks during their education event last week. Although the average tablet users skew toward 18 to 34-year-old males right now, this is expected to change in the near future as tablets will become even more mainstream. According to a recent study, US tablet users will rise to 54 million by early 2012.

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An introduction to A/B Testing

A/B Testing is a hot term these days. As it happens with all trends, we often use the word without knowing the basics. Just like basketball, if you don’t know the basics, you can’t evolve.

The heart of A/B testing is quite simple. It is about comparing two (or more) versions of the same web page and seeing which one performs better. Sounds simple, but “better” is the catch here.

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How to use your own theme on Instabuck

On Instabuck we want to constantly provide you better tools to help you make money. In this direction we created 5 themes to choose from when you upload a product. More themes are coming along the way. However, we know that a theme designed by someone else, no matter how good it looks, sometimes is just not enough. That is why we developed a mechanism with which you can upload your own theme. Here’s how.

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5 ways to promote your ebook

With the printed word becoming old-fashioned, many wannabe authors are trying their luck with electronic books, or e-books. Although many people may think that creating an e-book is easy, it involves many facts. Writing the book is the easy part. Because you have to self-publish e-books, you also need to market and promote your e-book as well, which can prove tricky. It can be difficult to run your own business, but there are many things you can do to promote your e-book and watch the sales starting coming in.
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