Amazon Prime - One Authors View

I like being on Amazon Prime. I've read other authors who can't stand the idea of having their books exclusively on Amazon for the required ninety days, but I tried Smashwords, which sent my books to all the other outlets, and I found that my Amazon sales dwarfed everything else by a huge margin, so I really question why another author wouldn't want to be on Amazon exclusively. I know that's not going to make some people happy, but it works for me. As a self published author you need to do whatever you can to get your name out there, and Amazon is one of the best outlets for doing that. Amazon Prime allows readers to "borrow" your books if your signed up for it. But you as the author still get paid when your book is borrowed, and sometimes dependent on the KDP numbers for the month, and the current price of your book, you sometime get paid more money if someone "borrows" your book than if they buy it. But money isn't the only issue here, theres also exposure. Selling books is a numbers game, and it works the same way any other sales product does, people will buy it if their friends say they like it. No amount of advertising will drive your sales more than actual readers who tell other readers they enjoyed your book. So the key here is write good books, and then get them in the hands of as many people as you can so they can tell everyone they know to buy it, or borrow it, whichever the case may be.

I'm just happy whenever anybody reads my books, whether they get them free during free days, borrow them on Amazon Prime, or actually but them. The point of writing books is to get people to read them and if borrowing my book gets them to read it, I'm totally ok with that.

Besides Amazon Prime is a pretty good deal. It's $79 a year, which for the math impaired is $6.58 a month. By comparison my Netfilx streaming account costs $7.99 a month. And what do I get for my $6.58 a month? According to the website at:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custome...

You get numerous FREE shipping options on items you buy. Access to the Kindle Owners Library (Which includes all four of my books). And Streaming Videos. Sure there is overlap with Netflix on what's available to stream, but HBO, Showtime, and Stars all have overlap too, and that's not going to stop me from having those three too. It's always good to have options. Especially if you know that when you "borrow" a book through Amazon Prime that the author is still getting compensated for it. As an author I'd like to say that I really like it when you "borrow" my book, I get paid, you read my book, and maybe you write a nice review, which leads to others buying copies of my books, which in my mind is a good deal for everyone involved.

So please check out Amazon Prime and if you sign up, please "borrow" any one of my four books!