Comments on: KDP Select Free Book Results 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:57:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Perry 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-18170 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:50:43 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-18170 I had forgotten that. Thanks for reminding me.

Well another reason for giving exclusivity for at least the first 90 days of a book’s release. I did get more readers through the free offer.

Perry

]]> By: M. Louisa Locke 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-18166 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:27:21 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-18166 Dear Perry,

When you publish with KDP, it was my understanding that you are not permitted to put a price at $0, so the only way to do that used to be to put your book at 0 elsewhere and hope Amazon discounted you because you are not permitted to have a lower price on any other site.

So the “Free Promotion”carrot is not that they are promoting you, but that you can do what traditional publishers have been always able to do, set a price at 0 for a short time promotional purposes.

I have been very fortunate that the 2 day promotion has resulted in a lot of sales and also borrows, which I will post about at the end of the week. Whether this is a one time bump, how long it will last, whether doing another free promotion in a month or so will have the same effect, all that is up in the air and will have a lot to do with if I choose to renew.

M. Louisa Locke
author of Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits

]]> By: Perry 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-18161 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:45:07 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-18161 I am in and did one free promo which got me a bunch of new readers and a few more purchases. I haven’t had any borrows yet so I may not renew the enrollment.

The thing is, I don’t really understand how the free promotion is different from changing the price of my book to $0 and promoting the heck out of it for a few days then putting it back up to regular price. I might have missed something, but Amazon didn’t promote me (I didn’t really expect them to).

]]> By: DG Sandru 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-18006 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:08:09 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-18006 Although at first I was baffled by the KDP program, and did not see many advantages, reality has a way of sobering an indie fellow. Reality is that I sold very few eBooks of “Arboregal, the Lorn Tree” on Smashwords channels of distribution. I had nothing to lose by un-publishing on Smashwords and going with KDP. Surprise, surprise! My eBook went up in rank from 82,000 to 652 in the Kindle Free, and 14 in the Mythology section on the second day of the free promotion. I am still baffled, but in a good way.

]]> By: The Titanboar Touchstone, by Darius Acheson « Jaye's Love Affair With Genre Fiction 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17889 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:38:39 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17889 [...] The Passive Voice blog. GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

]]> By: Passive Guy 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17887 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:14:01 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17887 Thanks for the kind words, Jaye.

The next book does begin on the plains. The dredwolves are happy to talk with Jager, but the subject is always the same – they want to eat him.

]]> By: KDP Select Free Promotion: Discoverability Experiment, Part One | M. Louisa Locke 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17884 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:36:43 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17884 [...] I clearly had reached my goal of making Maids of Misfortune more visible! The morning after the promotion ended, Uneasy Spirits still was in the #8 spot and Maids of Misfortune was in the #3 position. Clearly it was now easier for readers to discover both books with these high rankings. I am not the only author to report this sort of success, see this post and comments on the Passive Voice. [...]

]]> By: Jaye Manus 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17874 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:03:39 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17874 Well, gee, PG, you write a pretty good book, too. I just finished TITANBOARS and I’m genuinely impressed. It’s absolutely delightful. I love the titanboars!

Are you writing the next one? I’m dying to know how Jager makes out on the plains with the horses and the dredwolves and the titanboars and the emperor.

]]> By: Passive Guy 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17847 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:42:21 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17847 Thanks, Erin. The 5-day free period expired yesterday.

]]> By: Erin Ivy 12/2011/kdp-select-free-book-results/#comment-17845 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:14:30 +0000 ?p=13386#comment-17845 Having given my hubby a nook for Christmas while I got a Kindle Fire, I have been comparing book availability and ease of searching with en eye toward launching my own book. I am disappointed in what I find on B&N right now because I try to hard to support them. On the other hand, my husband *loves* his nook while I have found the Kindle Fire heavy and the web browsing slow.

You might try looking for some of the ways to load books in different formats onto your nook. He loves his e-ink, so I know that’s one thing hubby is going to look into. If anyone has any bad experiences with this I would like to hear any warnings!

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