Authors, where do you sell your books?

[SugarSugarplum]

Do you just upload them to amazon kindle, and hope they pay you something?

Put them on Patreon/Gumroad?

[HighValue]

Do you have other social media with contacts that are interested in whatever genre of story you plan to sell?

Do you have a YouTube channel so you can announce it on there and talk about it a little bit to subscribers to get them interested?

I think the main thing would be to get a few people to read and review it on amazon or wherever you plan to publish it because without any reviews it likely won't sell any copies, or very few.

It may take time and publishing multiple books before you make much money. With each additional one created, your published books as a whole will get noticed more. Unless someone is already well known for something so people would want to buy whatever they create, I think it can be difficult to get noticed for a while.

[strateguy632]

Correct people use patreon.

I *hav: ebooks, different user name n an amazon account for selling.

[dustybiker2]

Get social media for your work specifically. Make quality content and keep everything professional, open and welcoming as this attracts the broad spectrum of people. Yes, upload to amazon to start selling for yourself while you send your work to publishers.

[DrPepper12]

I've known self-publishing authors to do all of these things until they're contracted with a publisher. Some have also used, I think it's a site-based out of Australia. https://www.freebooksy.com/for-the-authors/
And found it very useful.

I also know that you should encourage friends to make verified purchases on Kindle or Amazon and leave reviews.

[Massageman]

My two were decades ago and they were "how-to" types of books targeted at very specific audiences. I copied them myself (self-pub) and a copy was part of my teaching them the contents. I never used a publisher, per se.

[Kaneki05]

Need to figure that one out myself.

[Twalli]

We try for a legitimate publisher first.

[eagle1951]

trying to remember the book company

[smurfwrangler]

kdp.

[SugarSugarplum]

I assume that's kindle?

[smurfwrangler]

kindle direct publishing yes

[smurfwrangler]

never made much though

[SugarSugarplum]

So it's like 2,000 hours of agony for $12.50?

[smurfwrangler]

I didn't spend that much time but ya pretty much

[Jennz6]

Amazon