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Think seriously about adding a print-on-demand paperback version to your Kindle version. Both my wife and I recently published books as Kindle versions on Amazon. My wife's book is a novel. Mine is a non-fiction book on marketing. In both cases, I took the time to format the books for paperback editions on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

The results are clear. For the novel, paperback edition sales are equal to the Kindle eBook sales. For the non-fiction book, more paperbacks have sold than Kindle eBook version.

While it takes some time to format for the paperback edition, something I've described in another post here, it looks like a lot of people are choosing a paper book for their reading. If you don't have a paperback edition, you might be losing sales.

Since it costs nothing to publish both editions, there's no good reason not to publish in both formats. You can calculate pricing for the Kindle and Paperback versions to realize the same royalty income from both, or let the paperback version actually return a higher amount to you.

By the way, the KDP Print-on-Demand paperbacks Kindle is producing look and feel just as good as any other paperback book. The quality is right up there with traditional publishers' editions.