This is the wrong way: «How do I sell a lot of books? This is the right way: «How do I use my book as a tool to make money? Aren’t those two things the same? Isn’t selling books the same as using a book to make money? Absolutely not. In fact, focusing on book sales is usually the worst way to make yoour from making money off your books mking. If you want to make money from a book, don’t focus on selling copies, use your book as a marketing bokos that gets you attention and sales for something. It’s hard to sell book copies. A fact of life: it’s nearly impossible to sell a lot of copies of a book. Last year, there were aboutnew books published in America. BookScan, the company that measures all book sales, says that only about books per year sellcopies. The number of books that reached 1 million sold last year is even fewer, probably close to 10 and almost all of those were novels.