Google will let you upload a PDF through its publisher portal. Here’s a summary of where and how you can sell PDFs in the major ebookstores. You will need to find a way to provide what the market wants. Barnes & Noble used to accept PDFs, but according to their current help pages they no longer do so.Īnd there are even times where you should sell a PDF. For example, there are certain types of non-fiction that just work better in a fixed layout format, and frankly a PDF is still more versatile and accessible than a fixed layout Epub.Īlso, there are markets – such as O’Reilly technical manuals – where a sizable part of the audience insists on PDFs. Yes, you can upload and sell PDF in the major ebookstores – some of them, anyway. My first inclination is to retort that any well-informed publishing industry insider could tell you that neither statement is true, but then I realized that if The Book Designer could publish a post rife with factual errors, maybe it was time for an explainer post that set the record straight. He has been bad-mouthing PDFs for years, and he is just as wrong today as he was two years ago. Sidenote: This guy has a long-running FUD campaign about PDFs. In my morning coffee link post this morning I included a post on The Book Designer where a so-called "expert" made various claims about PDFs, including that PDFs aren’t ebooks and that PDFs "can’t be uploaded to any of the major ebook commercial retailer sites".
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