changing price of book published with Amazon

[Jim]

OK, I have a cunning plan but I don't know if it's possible.

I want to publish a book on kindle with Amazon. I want it free for the first week or so and then when it becomes a cult success, I want the price to go up to 99p so that I get the chance to prove conclusively that unreasonable wealth won't spoil me.


Can it be done?

[Michael]

Short answer is no.

[Kath]

You can make it free for the first 5 days. You can't do this until it's actually published, though, which is always about 12 hours before you can make it free. Maybe publish it - you have to set a price, so your 99p will go in there. Then every 3 months you can use 5 free days so use them all straight away. You only have 5 days to become cult! Otherwise it's a case of getting it free somewhere else, like Smashwords, then getting people to tell them it's free elsewhere.

[David]

My understanding was that to make your book free for the period of five days (without making it free through smashwords, etc.) that it has to be in kindle unlimited for at least 30 days first.

[Patti (baconater)]

I know a few authors who offer to send pre-published copies for free to their followers/fans. Is that an option for you?

[Jim]

Thanks both
Let's see if I've managed it

[Kath]

You can do it from first publishing, David. Both Jonathan Hill and Andy Barrett have done it with short stories.

[Jim]

thanks all, I have set off on the great adventure :-)

[David]

I've been trying to get Amazon to make a couple of mine free - that are free everywhere else - but they've just ignored me.

[Patti (baconater)]

If you give us the links in your author thread, a few of us can tell Amazon for you David.

It's been successful for others in the past, I believe.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "If you give us the links in your author thread, a few of us can tell Amazon for you David.

It's been successful for others in the past, I believe."

Thanks.

I'll go and do it now.

Does anybody know where I left my author thread?

I put it down somewhere in here, and I haven't seen it since.

[Patti (baconater)]

Need me to bump it for you?

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Need me to bump it for you?"

No, thanks.

I found it, eventually,buried down under some burnt curtains.

[Patti (baconater)]

Wasn't me. I've not incinerated anything in ages.

[David]

Kath wrote: "You can do it from first publishing, David. Both Jonathan Hill and Andy Barrett have done it with short stories."

I must be getting confused with countdown deals.