{"id":1600,"date":"2013-09-10T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gergely.imreh.net\/blog\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T01:33:32","slug":"first-sale-of-an-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gergely.imreh.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/first-sale-of-an-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"First sale of an ebook I helped to publish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was helping a friend to publish the ebook version of his paper book, called How to Start a Business in Taiwan<\/a>. About 50% the reason was that I like the book and hoped to get into more people’s hands, and 50% I wanted to see what is it like getting an ebook out the door and bought by people.<\/p>\n

Just a while ago, it had its first sale (hopefully the first of many:). *champagne!*<\/p>\n

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How to Start a Business in Taiwan on Kindle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I guess it is a very humbling experience that it took some 5 days of promotion effort to make that sale. That is even before I count how much time I have spent converting the Word doc into Markdown, and tweak the looks. The technical details to that I have written up in a guest blog post<\/a> on the books website.<\/p>\n

The marketing side is still under development, and the numbers are too low to draw a lot of conclusions from. The most surprising thing to me is how many people actually click the “buy this book” link and then they don’t follow through. Then also the half a dozen people who I followed up on earlier discussion to tell them about the ebook version, they say “ah, it’s awesome, I’ll go get it, I’ve been waiting for it” – then nothing happens.<\/p>\n

Of course, there can be a lot of reasons for this, here are some of my guesses:<\/p>\n