Print Book at Launch? Or 30 Days after Digital...? · Self-Publish Non-Fiction Books

Print Book at Launch? Or 30 Days after Digital...?

Alright, there's much debate on this point, and I'm curious about YOUR experience/results... When you launch your ebook, do YOU launch your print versions at the same time as digital? Or do you release print ~30 days after digital...?

Benefits of simultaneous, from what I understand, is that customers can buy in their preferred format and you can build all the buzz around the actual physical book. Downside is that buyers that would buy the digital book and then come back and buy the physical a month later now only buy once. AND - most importantly - instead of getting to rank for Kindle bestseller for a month and then AGAIN for normal bestseller... you're splitting sales between the two, which hurts rankings... Launching them a month apart gets you best new release status and bestseller status on digital and then the following month again, but in print... ?

So... what's been your experience? :)

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