20 Websites to Sell and Publish Your eBooks.

From Hongkiat.com. Published by Karrar Haider.

Payhip

Payhip is an e-commerce website that offers you to sell any type of downloadable digital material, including ebooks. You create a customizable sales page on Payhip for free and it gives you the tools to sell your product, such as discount coupons, share buttons, affiliate program and flexible pricing options. Payhip will simply keep 5% of all the sales you make – simple right?

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Amazon Kindle Direct Publish

You can easily publish your ebooks on the biggest online store Amazon for free. Of course, you will get a huge exposure on Amazon and you get to keep up to 70% of the total sales price.    Sign Up | Selling & Pricing

Blurb

Blurb gives you reliable tools to create that perfect ebook. You can create reflowable ebooks or fixed layout ebooks and blurb will automatically format the book for you in your choice format. You can sell the books to different markets, including Blurb, Amazon, and Apple iBooks Store.

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Lulu

Lulu offers a complete guide on creating perfectly formatted ebooks and then convert them into EPUB or PDF format. If you can’t do it yourself, then Lulu also offers personal service of doing it for you for a tiny fee. Your ebooks can be sold on different publishers with each offering their own royalty.

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Tradebit

Tradebit is very similar to Payhip as it lets you create a sales page and then helps you sell your ebooks (or any other downloadable material). You can use an affiliate program, set custom price, take advantage of social media integration and sell ebooks on popular markets such as eBay.

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NOOK Press

Barnes & Noble offers this self-publishing tool to write and publish your ebook. NOOK Press offers all the tools for free to create and publish your ebooks. The created ebook will be published to millions of NOOK and Barnes & Noble readers. You can check NOOK Press FAQ page for all the details.

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Kobo Writing Life

A really easy to use self-publishing platform, Kobo lets you publish your ebook in 5 simple steps. Your books will be published on Kobo website for millions of readers. Kobo charges no fee for creating and publishing ebooks, but it does keep a commission on the sales.

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Smashwords

Smashwords gives you huge visibility by publishing your work over multiple distributors, including Kobo Barnes & Noble, OverDrive, and Smashwords. There is no fee in the publishing process and you get free tools to protect and format your ebooks. You will get 80% royalty on sales from Smashwords and 60% on other distributors.

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Scribd

Scribd is a paid reading service that hosts ebooks and other similar content that members can read with a subscription. When the readers will read your ebook, you will be paid as it was sold to them. However, you can only sign up for Scribd using its affiliate companies, including Smashwords, BookBaby, and Draft2Digital, etc.

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Payspree

Payspree hosts your digital downloadable content and gives you multiple ways to attract customers. You can take advantage of affiliates, social media and dime sales to empower sales. Payspree lets you list only one item for free. You will have to pay $1-2 per product or a lifetime membership fee of $29.

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PayLoadz

PayLoads also offers great tools to host your ebooks and sell them online. You will get encrypted download page, shareable buttons, ebooks listed in eBayauctions and affiliate program. PayLoads costs $19.95/month with a 2.9% to 4.9% fee on each sale.

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E-junkie

Another comprehensive service to host your ebooks and it does all the hard work of selling them for you. You can create a sales page for your ebooks and use power tools like multiple payments support, affiliate programs, protected storage, discount offers, manage inventory, create packages, Google Analytics and more. E-Junkie charges fixed monthly payment based on your needs.

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GoSpaces

GoSpaces lets you create a space for free to sell anything you want, including ebooks. It charges only 3% fee on transactions, but you can upgrade to paid version to get a personal domain and decrease fee to 2.5% per transaction. It also offers 15 free tools to manage and customize your space, including slogan generator, logo maker, wallpapers and banner maker, etc.

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Feiyr

Feiyr is a paid promotion service for ebooks and music. You can upload your ebook to Feiyr and it will be made available to be sold on over 165 different online stores. Just pay a one-time fee of € 9.90 and start publishing, and you will get to keep 90% of the sales price.

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Selz

Selz offers highly customizable packages to create your own sales store and sell products. With the free account, you can list 5 items and access tools like widgets, fraud protection, and analytics tools, etc. Paid membership starting from $12.99 gives the ability to list unlimited items and customize the page according to your liking.

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Gumroad

A very flexible platform to setup your online shop, Gumroad lets you personalize your store to your liking and gives you amazing selling opportunities. You can create subscriptions, memberships, direct sales, provide extra benefits, give discounts on actions, customizable DRM and more. And all of this comes with a $10 monthly fee and just 3.5% fee on each sale.

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Booktango

Booktango is a free service that won’t even charge a fee on transactions. You can upload and sell ebooks and keep 100% of the earnings. Although if you use their custom covers, you’ll have to pay a certain price. Booktango sells the ebooks on its store and other retailers.

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Clickbank

Clickbank has a really strong affiliate network of 500,000 marketers that will surely boost your sales. It is also a product selling website like others and gives you the ability to create custom forms, subscriptions, fraud protection and much more. You can either keep 50% as royalty or pay $49.95 as a one-time fee for your store and pay 7.5% fee on transactions.

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BookBaby

BookBaby is quite an expensive service in this list, however, it offers amazing quality and lets you keep 100% of the sales. From writing, formatting, and designing to distributing and completing sales, everything will be handled by BookBaby for a price of $149/ebook. Their experts will work side by side to create your perfect ebook using advanced tools and then distribute it to different retailers including BookBaby itself.

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Shopify

For $29/month you can access all of Shopify tools to create a fully functional online store. You don’t need any coding skills, it is really easy to use and gives you templates and themes to quickly create a perfect online store. If you do have coding skills, then Shopify gives complete freedom to control HTML and CSS. It also offers multiple opportunities to promote your ebooks, including distributing them over different stores.

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Fair Enough by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren.

One notable similarity between Nigeria and Turkey is that the government control the media. Ordinary people with different views or who refuse to accept mediocrity as norm are seen as terrorist and silenced while the real terrorists, some government officials and politicians who milk the state dry, roam freely. 

The government say they spend N14,000 per day on each prisoner in Nigeria, budget billions of Naira yearly for the State House Clinic and still take the next available flight to UK or US to treat cough and cold because the Clinic has no paracetamol. This is not the time for deception. Nigeria is in recession. A society that spend so much on prisoners and so little on her law abiding citizens is unfair and cruel. And they are sending the wrong signal. It is telling the poor Nigerian that it is better to commit crime and then be thrown in luxury called prison than stay away from crime and be hungry.

The media does not have the right to investigate. In Nigeria, Investigative Journalism is practically dead. The Social Media has made Journalism so easy and interesting. From one end of your room, you can copy stories from millions of sites and paste them on your own. Hardly will you blame some of these people. The Journalist is ever having a gun pointed at him and the fear of death is a mountain to climb. Rather than risk their lives and be killed, they turn the other way and let the story go. A society that does not encourage investigative journalism will hardly b decent.  

In Nigeria, the few who dare to question the government are a tiny fly on the back of a horse. It is sad because you are not expected to ask questions. If you do, you are branded a terrorist and hunted down like a dog. 

In this age, even a fool is allowed to ask question. The wise and prudent will decide whether the question makes sense or not. It is dangerous to take a man's meal and his voice at the same time. You have already killed him. Nigerians must frown at any government that tries to take their voice.

If Buhari wins a re-election in 2019, we will have him for another four years. If he fails to win a second term, he will be gone like his predecessors. Unless there is a drastic turn around in the fortunes of Nigerians, he will be remembered for the promises that were never fulfilled.

We have had recession two times under the umbrella of President Buhari (1984 and 2016-2017). And this is not fair.

We have to renegotiate Nigeria and return power to the regions. That will be fair enough.