Apex Predator Out and Selling
My newest and shortest release, Apex Predator, is now out and selling. The book was officially released on Kindle on Christmas Eve, but it has been available in paperback for a few days longer.
During the first few days of release, Apex Predator was selling well. However, priced at $0.99 on Kindle, a single sale of Apex Predator amounts to very little royalties for me. As a result, despite a large number of sales, I made about twice as much from Apex Predator as I did with Iris during the week of Christmas, despite selling 10 times the units of Apex Predator.
After reading that information, you may be wondering, “What’s the point of having a book so cheap if a single sale of Iris makes five times the amount of money as a sale of Apex Predator?” Great question!
Firstly, I do think the price is justified. The Kindle edition of Apex Predator comes out to only 98 pages and Amazon’s algorithm considers the book a “two-hour read”. Iris, on the other hand, comes out to 664 pages on Kindle. So, if anything, the fact that I make 1/5 of what I make from Iris on Apex Predator is actually high if you consider a price-per page ratio.
In simpler terms… Apex Predator is a short short short book. So of course I don’t think it should cost a lot of money. Would you want to pay a lot of money for a book you can read in two hours? No, of course not. And therefore it should be priced as such.
Secondly, I don’t see having a cheap book as a bad thing. A lower-priced book can act as a hook or preview for the author’s other works. If someone reads it and enjoys it, they may say, “What else has this person written?” and discover that the author has produced some longer stuff. In fact, there are many authors out there who put out Kindle books for free for this exact reason.
So overall, while Apex Predator is technically selling, that’s not to say I’m making any money. Apex Predator was my best selling book this past month, which being a new release, is not surprising. But on the other hand, that also meant this past December was one of my least-profitable months to date.
Still, despite all this, I do not consider the low price or low profitable month to be a negative. I look at Apex Predator as a way to lay ground work for the future and to build my repertoire. If anything, it’s existence will help me in the long-term.
If you want to read Apex Predator, buy your copy of the book today for a low price of just $0.99 on Kindle or $5.99 for the paperback! Click the link here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08193RP4G/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
