Why Bookshooter?

Authors and small Publishers Need Help.

As a self-publshing author or a large publisher you could go and create individual accounts with every retail outlet in the ever changing and always growing ebook world...or you could just use one gateway to them all--Bookshooter.com! That was a bold claim so let's add a little disclaimer here: please understand that we are a startup enterprise and so every online retailer will not be available immediately, but we are working hard to bring them all online. As of January 2010 we have Kindle distribution working well, and iTunes distribution is approved and underway!

ePublishing By Yourself is Painful.

If you decide to go it alone in ebook publishing then your first step will be to figure out how to convert your books into the AZW (Kindle), ePub, or Mobi,  or any of the myriad other ebook formats. Then your second, never ending step, will be to go and create uploading and distribution accounts with the growing list of retailers. This is where Bookshooter immediately makes you smile: you sign on with Bookshooter, upload once, and they take care of the rest! Wouldn't it be more fun to watch your profits roll in from all the new ebook sales sites without having to learn all the technical mumbo-jumbo? Bookshooter is a one stop shop where you drop in your book and personally oversee it through our conversion system, and then unlike some other ebooks services we provide an online editor that you are totally in control of from start to finish.

People Want eBooks.

The latest trends in book sales show ebooks are booming! Yes, physical paper book sales will always be great and these books will always feel great in our hand and look great on our shelves, but if you want to know where the growth curve is in new book sales then look at ebooks. It is amazing. Amazon has sold so many Kindles they don't even want to print the figures, and Apple just opened up a whole new competitive market with the iPad reader. "USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list released just after Christmas 2010 will show digital's new popularity: E-book versions of the top six books outsold the print versions" in the week after Christmas! It's time to get on the bus ... if you don't you will soon be hanging out with the last musician in the world still trying to sell cassette tapes.

Every Author Should be Able to Sell eBooks.

It shouldn't be that hard, but it is. One of the hardest steps is to simply convert the book to the most common ebook format, the ePub, properly. Go try some other online systems and see what we mean. Our system is much easier. Bookshooter requires you to do your own final editing once you upload your PDF version of your work, but it is clean, easy and best of all it puts you, the author or publisher, in control. Yes, we realize there are some software packages out there that will do some of this conversion for you, but we think the online editor is superior because you will never have to worry about updates, conflicts, or software problems during conversion. Secondly, even after converting a book into an ebook format it has to pass through a series of hurdles related to entering into sales databases, entering metadata, uploading covers, setting prices, processing payment bank accounts, and then keeping track of it all. At Bookshooter you just drop the book into the magic machine and Bookshooter handles it all as your ebook sales aggregator...and best of all we use the always cross-platform friendly PDF format for all submissions, which means your full-color well designed files are always available for sale on our site and available for future distribution. With our online editor you can still edit and format your book just the way you want it before you submit your books to any retailers! Try that anywhere else?

What about Bookshooter's competition?

There are some great competitors out there, but few who truly aggregate (distribute your ebook to more than one retailer)...Bookshooter is a true aggregator. Here are more of Bookshooter's standout features compared to others:

1. Bookshooter can customize a contract for individual publishers that will fit their unique goals. Contact us and find out how.
2. Bookshooter can feature full-color, graphically rich--the beautiful original book layout--in PDF on its own global website.
3. Bookshooter offers complete control right down to a final "output preview" for converting books to other ebook formats.
4. Bookshooter offers reasonable, and long-term sensible, revenue sharing as it only business model right from the start.

Helping Creative People is What We Do.

Read more in the About Us page, but in summary the Bookshooter team is made up of creative individuals who are writers, publishers, producers, and entrepreneurs who love to create and sell new works as well as helping others to do the same. Coaching and equipping others has been so natural to the Bookshooter team that creating an ebook conversion and distribution business was a simple, obvious step in enhancing their already vibrant services to other authors and creatives. Let Bookshooter help you, too.