The KDP Select Experiment: Part 4 - The Fast & the Furious

If you haven't read my earlier posts on KDP Select, you may want to do so first to catch up. You can find them at: The KDP Select Experiment: Part 1 - Mission Impossible?, The KDP Select Experiment: Part 2 - Waiting to Exhale, and The KDP Select Experiment: Part 3 - Good Will Hunting.

Today also marks day 1 of THE RIVER being offered FREE for 2 days. I'll report numbers below.

Before I started this experiment on January 21st, my stats for my thriller DIVINE INTERVENTION were as follows on Amazon.com:

DIVINE INTERVENTION (22 reviews): Rank 16,770 - #26 Paid Bestseller in Books--Canadian Detectives - 10 UK copies sold, no other foreign sold or free.

Then I enrolled in KDP Select and made this title available for FREE for 5 days.

This is day 3 of the 5 day FREE promo and here are my stats:

8:30 AM: rank 26 (Top 100 FREE Kindles), #1 Police Procedurals, 13552 free copies


9:00 PM: rank 42 (top Free Kindles), #2 Police Procedurals, 15564 free copies.

That's nearly 16000 people who will now be reading DIVINE INTERVENTION.

Foreign stats to date:

.co.uk - 10 sales + 519 free (was 172 free on 21st)
.de - 59 free (was 28 free on 21st)
.fr - 2 free (was 1 free on 21st)
.es - 0
.it - 0

DIVINE INTERVENTION is FREE until January 25. Get your FREE copy today.


THE RIVER is FREE today and tomorrow. Pick up your FREE copy ASAP.


Starting stats on Amazon.com:


22nd January - 22 Reviews, rank 18942 Paid, #72 Kindle - Technothrillers, #84 Books - Technothrillers, Foreign sales - 0 in all

Day 1 of FREE promo:

23rd January - Rank 980 Free, #2 Kindle - Technothrillers, #9 Kindle - Adventure, 970 free copies

Foreign:
.co.uk - 63
.de - 7
.fr - 2
.es - 0
.it - 0


So over 1000 readers will now be reading THE RIVER.


*Sudden spike in UK sales for my other titles AND those published by Imajin Books, my publishing company. Wow! Bonus!


More stats on THE RIVER on Amazon.com:


23rd January:

2 PM: rank 102 Free, #1 Kindle - Technothrillers, #1 Kindle - Adventure
(Compare to Divine Intervention's stats after same duration: rank 181 Free, #1 Kindle - Police Procedural.

4PM: rank 88 Free, #1 Kindle - Technothrillers, #1 Kindle - Adventure
(Compare to Divine Intervention's stats after same duration: rank 165 Free, #1 Kindle - Police Procedural.

9PM: rank 21 Free; #1 Kindle - Technothrillers, #1 Kindle - Adventure, 10120 free copies
(Compare to Divine Intervention's stats after same duration: rank 28, #1 Kindle - Police Procedural, 7429 free copies.)

10PM: rank 12 Free, #1 Kindle - Technothrillers, #1 Kindle - Adventure, 10753 free copies

So it appears that on day 1, THE RIVER was even more popular than DIVINE INTERVENTION and more people downloaded it on the first day. Let's see what the next couple of days bring.


Stay tuned for more stats.

Cheryl Kaye TardifCheryl Kaye Tardif is a bestselling Canadian suspense author.
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