Expand Your sales base
As stated in past blogs, I used KDP Select to get exposure through their free promo platform. Authors are given five free promo days but must sell only on Amazon for a ninety day period. As time has gone on, the amount of free eBook offerings has increased from roughly a few thousand a day, six months ago, to over thirty-five thousand today.
As a result, new authors without a substantial fan base will find it extremely difficult to compete with the myriad of free offerings in their genre. After all,if you walked into Barnes and Noble and saw a wall of free "new releases" by self-published authors and a second wall of the same quality offerings for $1.99 to $5.99, in which direction would you go?
Once the initial ninety day contract with Kindle is up, the logical next step would be to add your book to Nook and iTunes where B+N and Apple readers will be added to your customer base. Not only could these new readers find your book at the Nook and iTunes bookstores, but they might also here about it from friends with Kindles who have previously downloaded a past free offering. In this way, you are not trapped competing with the thousands of freebies being posted every day for Kindle. Good luck
As a result, new authors without a substantial fan base will find it extremely difficult to compete with the myriad of free offerings in their genre. After all,if you walked into Barnes and Noble and saw a wall of free "new releases" by self-published authors and a second wall of the same quality offerings for $1.99 to $5.99, in which direction would you go?
Once the initial ninety day contract with Kindle is up, the logical next step would be to add your book to Nook and iTunes where B+N and Apple readers will be added to your customer base. Not only could these new readers find your book at the Nook and iTunes bookstores, but they might also here about it from friends with Kindles who have previously downloaded a past free offering. In this way, you are not trapped competing with the thousands of freebies being posted every day for Kindle. Good luck
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Writing for fun and profit
My blog will discuss writing for fun and profit. As an Indie author testing the waters for the first time, I will attempt to help others avoid the numerous pitfalls along the way.
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I still have reservations about self-publishing. My book was published by a small publishing house in England about a year or so ago and I thought, wow, it will soon be in all the bookshops. Doesn't work that way. I soon found out that the main bookstores and the independents were flooded with review copies from the publishing houses and/or their representatives. Thus little hope that mine, by an unknown author, would be in the running.
Quite disheartening to an author. The one good thing is that being self-published, the copyright is owned by the author. My book is owned by the publishing house and when my book is finally remaindered there is no guarantee that I will get it returned to me.