Selling e-book on your own site vs Amazon?

In my opinion Your site is better because you can sell it for any amount of money but the Amazon ebooks are mainly 2-3 dollars and that requires volumes of sales to make any significant money. But still you should be able to drive traffic to your site.

If you are good in getting traffic to your site then sell it in your own site; otherwise, sell it in Amazon and then create a blog linking to your Amazon page.

Hi,

It's going to depend on whether or not you want to engage your book in Amazon's KDP program. It's a promotional program that helps you make a name for yourself by giving your book away for free (you get 5 free days per 90 day period), the point of course is to get good reviews, but the downside is that by doing this you give Amazon an exclusivity agreement.
So in short, if you decide to use their KDP program you can only sell your book on Amazon. If you don't use the KDP then you can do whatever you want.

Seb.

Visitors to Your Site: ?
Visitors to Amazon: Millions Daily

Put it on Amazon and put a BUY button on your page that captures their email, then takes them to Amazon to check out.

I'd recommend selling your own ebook, because then you can also capture their emails and build yourself a customers list and then recommend amazon books, maybe.

It is a good idea to sell your book on both, the more promotion you can have, the better

I would recommend you to sell the book in your website.
There are too many titles in Amazon.

Unless you are a famous author or published by renowned publishers,
Your book is unlikely get noticed by the visitors.

Sorry to reveal the hard truth.

You can promote your books in many ways such as
1. JV with big list
2. Affiliate marketing
3. Social media such as Facebook, twitter, etc
4. Video marketing ( a short intro to your book)
5. Article marketing
6. Media buys
7. Solo ads
8. Guest posting
9. Press release
10. PPC/PPV

Tons of traffic method you can use to
drive visitors to your site.

Well, there are merits to both. If your book is on the topic of making money online, a "special method" or something of the sort, your own website would probably be a good idea. If your book is a novel, general how-to guide, or interesting non-fiction book, I'd say Kindle. It might seem like a weird way to figure out where to publish, but this is a decent method. Ask yourself: would I read this book on my computer, or as a hardcover/paperback book or on my Kindle. Generally, if it's on your computer, you'll want to publish on your own site.
However, there's nothing against publishing on both. If you don't want to be a part of Kindle Select (many benefits such as borrowing, free promotions etc.) you can actually publish it elsewhere including on your own site.
Good luck!
Alex.

Just to clarify, you can still sell your book on your own website as an Amazon affiliate or just give a link to it at Amazon if it is enrolled in KDP Select.

However, if it is enrolled in KDP Select you cannot sell it DIRECTLY from your site as a digital book. So you would have to link to the Amazon site for the customer to make the purchase.

It's not that one is necessarily better than the other because there are so many factors that will decide if it will be successful for you.

Look, you can write a 90 page ebook and sell it on your own website and from there you have many platforms and networks that you can sell it on (Digibilly, Warriorplus, JVZoo, Clickbank, Paydotcom, E-Junkie, Nanacast, etc.).

Then you write a 15-20 page ebook / report and sell it for like $2.99 or whatever (less) on the Kindle platform to generate leads. You can write about specific topics if this is non-fiction.

So you CAN do both at the same time.

I see a lot of Kindle authors make simple mistakes such as not having a decent book cover, not knowing how to use keywords within the Amazon Kindle system, how and when to use their KDP program, how to become a "best seller" in record time, how to promote their ebooks on Kindle, etc.......

There's a lot to know out there on how to become a successful Kindle author. The same holds true for marketing and promoting your own ebook. One of the biggest mistakes I see marketers make is they only focus on that one ebook. There should be a comprehensive product strategy, even if it simply means becoming an affiliate and marketing other people's products while you build your own list.

One is not better than the other, it all depends on your execution. In my world, I do BOTH and when I first start out I have two different versions of my ebooks so that I can do them both at the same time. And when I roll them out, I already have a back-end strategy in place (this is where the real money starts to come in).

RoD