The ABCs of Self-Publishing Platforms XinXii

This week we finish our posts on self-publishing platforms with one of the newest options.

XINXII  https://www.xinxii.com/ 

XinXii is a new player out of Germany and distributes ebooks and audiobooks through major retailers internationally. It has a 100% trust score on Scam Alert. They support documents no matter what length, filetype or style, a short story, biography, Excel template, pattern, recipe, guidebook, study notes or material to prepare for exams.

There is no minimum page length, no exclusivity, no contract duration, and no DRM restrictions. You use one XinXii account to publish under multiple pen names and in different languages. 

Your products remain for sale on the XinXii Store until you choose to remove them, regardless of how many people buy them.

Cost: They do not charge payment processing fees (by PayPal e.g.). Publishing and selling are completely free. No cost to upload. No charge for changes.

Rights: You retain your copyright and can remove your work at any time.

Distribution: You select which channels you wish to partner with. They distribute through Tolino, Kindle, Google Play, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Draft2Digital, Audible, Angus and Robertson, buecher.de, casedellibro.com, Family Christian Stores, Fnac, Hugendubel, Indigo, Kobo, Libris BLZ, Livaria Cultura, Modadori, Thalia, Weltbild, Whitcoulls, WHSmith. They distribute eBooks without ISBN to: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Casa del Libro. If your ebook has an ISBN, they distribute it to Angus & Robertson, buch.de, buecher.de, Der Club Bertelsmann, donauland.at, e-Sentral, Family Christian, Flipkart, Fnac (.com/.pt), Google Play, Hugendubel, iBookstore, Indigo, Kobo, Libris, Livraria Cultura, Mondadori, OTTO Media, Rakuten, Thalia (.de/.at/.ch), Weltbild (.de/.at/.ch), Whitcoulls, and WHSmith.

 Services: You have an author page on their site. You can modify your entries and check your sales reports at any time. They do not exercise any editorial control over the information entered as long as the user does not violate their Terms of Use.

You can upload your eBook (maximum 80 mb) in the following formats: Adobe PDF (.pdf), ePUB, Word .doc and .docx, Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt/.pps/.pptx), Microsoft Excel (.xls/.xlsx), Mobipocket / Kindle-Format (.mobi), mp3 (Audio Book), LibreOffice/OpenOffice Text Document (.odt), rich text format (.rtf)..They convert your eBook to the ePub format (for iBookstore) and for free for fiction books. 

XinXii handles the complete order, customer support, and billing processing behind the scenes. You can see real-time sales reports about how often (but not by whom) your eBooks are bought at XinXii.

You can react by changing the description or the price. An alert system notifies you via e-mail about any activity concerning your eBooks such as when someone has purchased one or comments on one of your eBooks. 

You can generate coupon codes for your eBook. You can limit the number of downloads or allow unlimited downloads. You specify when the promotion starts and ends (1 – 12 days). Then you distribute the coupon code in your promotions. The readers submit the code when checking out and they can download the book free of charge. You can check the number of the redeemed coupons in the section Coupon Manager as well as delete/deactivate the coupon code.

If you need ideas how to use coupon codes for marketing your eBook. They offer tips and examples.

PAYMENT: XinXii uploads your sales reports from our retail outlets to your account weekly. You set whatever price you want for the eBook and keep.70 percent of net sales for works and eBooks with a list price greater than $2.49 / £1.59, 40 percent of net sales for works and eBooks with a list price at or between $0.99 and $2.48 / £0.89 and £1.58 for every purchased eBook on XinXii. Royalties on sales transacted via distribution partners varies

XinXii royalties are "net royalties": The "net sales" is equal to the eBook's net sales price. We do not reduce royalties by fees such as payment processing fees (by PayPal e.g.), retailer discounts, costs due to erroneous or fraudulent transactions or credit card charge-backs.

To receive your royalties, you can choose between PayPal and Bank Transfer as payment method. They perform transactions via Bank Transfer only in the European currency zone and in Euro (more information: SEPA).

An American author is not asked to give a tax ID number, just name and address. They do not report income to the IRS. As XinXii is a European based company, they have to pay the German VAT to the tax office for each digital product sold (7%) and the VAT must be always included in the final price of all products listed on XinXii. So after a sale, they have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the author will get his percentage of the net price as provision/royalty. Once the minimum amount of EUR 20,00 (~ US$ 27.00 / GBP 17.00) has been confirmed, you can request the payment by click. The amount will then be paid at the end of the following month after being requested. You can select the currency in which you want to be paid by us (USD, GBP or EUR).

You can modify your entries and check your sales reports at any time. If you select USD e.g., you will be paid by us in USD (w/o conversion). You can pay by PayPal or Credit Card for purchases. They use iPayment as a partner for credit card transactions and they implement state of the art security tools and techniques to ensure that your card details are secure. XinXii does not have access to any of your credit card details.

Next week, I will make a master list with links to all of the posts for the different platforms.

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