You probably already know this, but if you are creating the mobis with Kindlegen, (which is what the kindle previewer, InDesign and Scrivener use to generate mobis ) then you might run into legal issues. Kindlegen TOS states that you can only sell mobis created with Kindlegen via Amazon and nowhere else.
If I'm not mistaken, Vellum also uses Kindlegen to generate eBooks for Amazon.
You're right. I forgot about Vellum
I didn't know about this. Thank you for letting me know!
This should help to change mime types: https://neliosoftware.com/blog/how-to-upload-additional-file-types-in-wordpress/
Thanks for this! I'll check it out.
RD, it's off-topic, but I'd like to hear more about how you've achieve whatever level of success from selling direct from your own site. It's something I'm moving towards, but everyone decries it as impossible because, among other things, you can't attract enough website traffic.
Without giving away any secrets, can you give away a few secrets?
It took me a long time to find an audience for my book
Dang. I first published it as a serial novel in 2014 under a slightly different author name. That was a major bust but invaluable in terms of the lessons I learned. The books are still out there because I published paperbacks. Those pages NEVER go away!
In 2016 I republished
Dang as one complete book. After lots and lots and lots and lots of experimenting with advertising on FB, AMS, and Google ads (the whole shebang), I finally found my readers. I changed my cover at the end of 2017 and that helped me reach more readers.
I started using Payhip in mid 2018. I started experimenting again with FB ads and found readers willing to buy direct. I think the biggest barrier is finding people willing to buy using PayPal from an unknown site. They are out there but I had to figure out how to reach them.
Overall, I learned my book doesn't sell like other books. I've been in KU and always made more with paid sales than page reads. I've been in the top 100 of
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime Fiction > Murder and
Action & Adventure > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime in and out of KU but that didn't help me with sales. If I stopped promoting it myself then sales dried up. My book only sales if I push readers to it. Once I realized that I started to streamline my advertising and figured out how to make money with one book while I've been working on the second since 2015 (I know, I know).