Pricing is an important consideration for box sets. Amazon only pays a 70\u00a0percent royalty on books priced from $2.99 – $9.99. (The royalty is 35\u00a0percent for other price points.)<\/p>\n

In my case, my books were $3.99 and the first book was free, so I did a four-book set for $9.99, which saved people a couple of bucks off buying the books separately. (I subsequently raised the prices on my books to $4.99, so the box set is now an even better deal.)<\/p>\n

If you sell your box set on platforms other than Amazon, you have more flexibility with pricing. Some people sell sets of nine or 10 books on other platforms like iBooks for much more than $9.99.<\/p>\n

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As a reader, I can report that box set formatting often isn’t done correctly, which makes for an unpleasant reading experience. Make it easy for your reader to jump from book to book and from chapter to chapter.<\/p>\n

Covers<\/h3>\n

As with any other book, you need to create a cover for your box set. For the cover, you can use thumbnail images of the books on the box set, a new image, or an image from one of the books.<\/p>\n

Often people create a 3D angled cover so the image looks like a real set of books. If you have Photoshop skills, you can find 3D templates online like those at Covervault<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Note that iBooks will not let you use a 3D cover, so you’ll also need to create a flat version of your box set cover. My box set cover uses the art from my first book with a new title of Love, Laughter and Fur: Alpine Grove Romantic Comedy – Books 1-4<\/em><\/a>. It is branded to look like the rest of the series with the same fonts and color scheme.<\/p>\n

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Box sets offer a great opportunity for promotion. After I made my box set wide on all platforms, I applied for a BookBub ad<\/a>. Although I sold the set at a huge discount, I earned back the cost of the ad within hours and introduced a whole new set of readers to my series. Many of them went on to buy the other six books in the series.<\/p>\n

And more readers is what every author wants.<\/p>\n

Readers, have you packaged any of your books into a box set?\u00a0Are readers buying it?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>Tip of the Month<\/h3>\n

I always share\u00a0a \u201cTip of the Month,\u201d a free resource or tool for authors, on the last\u00a0Wednesday of the month.<\/p>\n

This one is for nonfiction authors struggling with the title for their prescriptive nonfiction books.<\/p>\n

My writer friend Melanie Votaw<\/a> is offering a free teleseminar tonight on how to craft compelling titles. No registration is required; join the call at 10 p.m. ET\/7 p.m. PT (calculate for your time zone) by dialing\u00a0712-832-8290<\/strong> and entering passcode 236228<\/strong> when prompted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Our guest blogger today is\u00a0Susan Daffron, an author I admire very much for her intelligence, wisdom, and success. Susan is the author of the Alpine Grove Romantic Comedies<\/a>, a series of novels that feature residents of the small town of Alpine Grove and their various quirky dogs and cats. She is also an award-winning author of many nonfiction books, including several about pets and animal rescue. You can read more about Susan\u00a0on her website<\/a>. If you enjoy this guest post from her, be sure to read another article she wrote for us about\u00a0her experience with BookBub ads<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

How to create an e-book box set from a series of books<\/h3>\n

<\/a>By Susan Daffron<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have a series of books, you may have considered releasing a box set.<\/p>\n

The process is fairly simple and it’s a great way to monetize your backlist. For a long time, even though I knew the advantages, I had a huge mental block about box sets. The old saying, “the confused mind does nothing” was me. Finally, once I had 8 books in my series, I decided to get over myself and figure out what I needed to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,11],"tags":[842,843,844,845,846,95],"class_list":["post-9510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-columns","category-news","category-tactics","tag-alpine-grove-romantic-comedies","tag-book-series","tag-e-book-box-set","tag-e-book-series","tag-ebook-box-set","tag-susan-daffron"],"yoast_head":"\n