Ben’s Comments (group member since Oct 19, 2016)

Ben’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

No problems :) it was a pleasure having you!

Just bump this up! We also offer Indie Author Interviews and Guest Blog opportunities!

Carole wrote: "shared!!"

Thanks, Carole!

This week our guest blog on Indie Publishing Group is by Lori Fettner and talks about how she's using Kickstarter for her latest project!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/k...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

This week on Indie Publishing Group we have the amazing Rocio Monroy!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/a...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

Carole wrote: "Thanks, Ben. I love your interviews. Everyone should do them!! You are a class act!!"

I'm finally getting caught up! and you'll make my head swell!

Nice work all!

Thanks for all the shares guys and girls and thank you Dale for taking part and sharing a guest article!

Head over to Indie Publishing Group and check out this cool guest blog by author Dale E. Lehman

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/w...

Thanks, Dale!

I don't know about anyone else, but all my kids books are out of KDP now. I'm going to list them on iBooks, etc etc. I think I worked out that I got about 20 cents if someone read one of my books on KDP. I had to have 30 people read the book to make up for 1 regular sale. I haven't noticed a drop in sales at all across my kids books since removing them if anything sales are up.

One thing that has worked, so far, was to make one of my kids books in the series free. I uploaded it to Smashwords, then let them put it on iBooks etc. After a month I emailed Amazon and mentioned that it was free across a variety of other platforms and they price matched it. I give away 1-5 copies of that book every day, and have noticed the sales of my other kids books in the series have been quite steady.

This works well because I have 6 books linked in a series, but I'm sure it would work well for a standalone book too.

We operate in Canada and Australia. We use Ingram Spark and Createspace for all our POD. Ingram is for Australia and Canada, Createspace is Canada only. We have had some problems with Ingram and they aren't as helpful as Createspace is, but their printing is pretty awesome.

You can limit how often Createspace pays out so that you only get a check when it reaches a certain amount?

Carole wrote: "shared."

Thanks as always Carole, you're the best!!!

Let's keep this going! I'd like to see me following hundreds more people and great work so far everyone!! I think I'm all caught up now :)

This week on Indie Publishing Group we have the amazing Ellis Knox!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/a...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

Thanks for all the shares!!

This week on Indie Publishing Group we have the amazing Anthony Avina!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/a...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

This week on Indie Publishing Group we have the amazing Jun Prince!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/a...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

Think I'm all caught up! Nice work all :)

This week on Indie Publishing Group we have the awesome Tracy Lawson! Thanks for taking part!

http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com/a...

If anyone would like to write a guest blog about anything to do with indie authors or writing, publishing etc. then write me at ben.jackson.writer@gmail.com I'll give you and your book a shout-out in the article!

I'll use some of the comments in the article and link back to this thread :) Thanks for the help!