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You’ll need to upload interior documents as EPUB and/or PDF files. If I had tried to upload them with the file names I’d used for every other retailer, it wouldn’t have worked. For example, one of my Google books has a cover image and interior file that are called 9781452402383_frontcover and 9781452402383_content respectively. Instead, Google Play requires you to do things that feel odd, like using ISBN-related titles for your files. It’s as if the book store engineers decided to reinvent the wheel without taking a peek at how Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords and other retailers handle the art of receiving cover images and interior files. This eliminates a lot of indie authors presumably for the bad and ugly reasons listed below. The only way I’m aware of is to upload directly. Smashwords, a distributor that sends ebooks to major retailers and library channels, doesn’t ship to Google Play. Perhaps the best reason to publish there: less competition exists from other indie authors at Google Play than at Amazon and other retailers.

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They also support fixed layouts and give advice on how to implement the HTML code for that. Remember that Google searches can be tailored just for book results (though the example above is a general Web search).ĮPUB files on Google Play support enhanced ebook features (EEBs) such as embedded audio and video. This is especially helpful for authors with rarer subjects or names within their books. It also works with character names and subject matter, though for popular search terms you may have to scroll down a few pages. Lo and behold, the Google book result appears at the very top of the list, and not one other retailer shows up further down. For example, try this sentence in a search: Mara reminded me of the pictures I had seen of Rose. I’ve tested this by copying random sentences from deep within my books and pasting them into a Google search. They scan your entire document and factor that into the world’s largest search engine.

Otherwise payments are with wire transfers. In twenty of the thirty-six, Google will pay partners with direct bank deposits (EFT) as is the case for North America and most of Europe. In thirty-six of those countries, authors (called partners) can upload ebooks. Purchases can be made in forty-four countries with ongoing expansion. My prediction is for sales to continue to grow though I’m no Vegas-insider. That was a pleasant surprise since Google doesn’t depend on book sales to stay afloat or make a dedicated device for reading as the others do. Over the past two years I’ve sold more with Google than at Barnes & Noble or Kobo.

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How would I describe the experience of uploading and selling ebooks there? It reminds me of a movie title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 2010 as Google Editions, then became Google Ebooks, then got engulfed in the massive Android supermarket known as Google Play. The official name for interested authors is the Google Books Partner Program.

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