Ask HN: If you self publish a book and sell via iBooks can you do well?

  • Take a look at books like yours on iBook, compare price etc. If you self published = you get it all, less the 30% to Apple. If you have a publisher he will not use iBooks because their profit will be larger than his or yours.

    Attracting the eyeballs to consider buying your book. That is what AMazon and iBooks does well, as do publishers. Eyeballs cosr $$ per click, 5 cents and upwards. Publishers usually give away a number of paper books to hope for good reviews. What does Amazon or iBooks do?

    See if you can find some self publishing sites, with near zero fees and see how popular they are.