Kindle Select tidbits, or Getting Started Part 2
Oh! One other thing. Don't expect to make money fast. I have read that it takes months before your book begins to pay off.
Kindle recommends using Kindle Select to attract attention, but with Kindle Select you are required to have at least 1 free promotion every 90 days. The nice thing about Kindle Select (and Amazon Prime) is that Amazon Prime members can check out your books rather than buy. But not to worry, Kindle will pay you for each time your book is checked out!
Kindle Select does attract attention. My first free promotion is the one where I 'sold' over 1200 books. Made Zip, but I did start getting ratings.
Because I'm with Kindle Select here in the US, when I signed up my royalty rate immediately dropped to the 35% bracket - even though I had chosen the 70% option. I signed up for Kindle Select and bam! My royalty rate here changed. But with Kindle Select other countries are opened up to you, and there I still get my 70%. For me it has worked out nicely. My books 'sell' fabulously here in the US with my Free Promotions but slow down at the regular price. However, in other countries, they will buy as readily for cash as they snap them up for free.
Remember, with Kindle's 35% royalty option there is no 'delivery fee.' With the 70% option there is a small, VERY small charge for the transmission.
When I put up my second book, I made sure there was a teaser of 2 chapters of the first before I ever published it. Since they are linked I also added the first 2 chapters of the second to Temper even though it was already up, and reloaded it back onto Kindle. I just clicked on that book in my bookshelf, chose "edit book details" from the drop down menu at the top of the list, and went through the publishing process again. What needed changing I changed, what didn't I left alone. That's something else. If you want to change something, the cover, found an editing mistake, whatever, you can reload your book as often as you want. I know, I've done it.
It's a slow upward climb unless you write a bestseller, and even then it takes time.
Kindle recommends using Kindle Select to attract attention, but with Kindle Select you are required to have at least 1 free promotion every 90 days. The nice thing about Kindle Select (and Amazon Prime) is that Amazon Prime members can check out your books rather than buy. But not to worry, Kindle will pay you for each time your book is checked out!
Kindle Select does attract attention. My first free promotion is the one where I 'sold' over 1200 books. Made Zip, but I did start getting ratings.
Because I'm with Kindle Select here in the US, when I signed up my royalty rate immediately dropped to the 35% bracket - even though I had chosen the 70% option. I signed up for Kindle Select and bam! My royalty rate here changed. But with Kindle Select other countries are opened up to you, and there I still get my 70%. For me it has worked out nicely. My books 'sell' fabulously here in the US with my Free Promotions but slow down at the regular price. However, in other countries, they will buy as readily for cash as they snap them up for free.
Remember, with Kindle's 35% royalty option there is no 'delivery fee.' With the 70% option there is a small, VERY small charge for the transmission.
When I put up my second book, I made sure there was a teaser of 2 chapters of the first before I ever published it. Since they are linked I also added the first 2 chapters of the second to Temper even though it was already up, and reloaded it back onto Kindle. I just clicked on that book in my bookshelf, chose "edit book details" from the drop down menu at the top of the list, and went through the publishing process again. What needed changing I changed, what didn't I left alone. That's something else. If you want to change something, the cover, found an editing mistake, whatever, you can reload your book as often as you want. I know, I've done it.
It's a slow upward climb unless you write a bestseller, and even then it takes time.
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