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Jun 30, 2017 09:57PM
Marie, roughly what sort of boost do you get after a free period, and how long do you have it?
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Marie Silk wrote: "The promotions are driving the sales, so I don't see it as losing at all."We must have different ways of seeing things Marie, and that's fine. The way I see it though is with an accountant's perspective. We take a loss on each book we give away because we've put value into the book. Aside from that, there is the opportunity cost. If I give a book to "Joe" then he no longer needs to buy it and the opportunity to sell it to him is lost. Make sense?
Ian wrote: "Marie, roughly what sort of boost do you get after a free period, and how long do you have it?"It depends on how big the promotion is (how many free downloads) and which advertising sites I use. On my average promo (between 1K and 2K free downloads) I can usually expect about three weeks of significantly improved sales, Kindle Unlimited page reads, and best sellers rank. After the three weeks, it tends to taper down to what it was in the few days prior the promo. If I let it go too long between promotions (5 weeks+), sales and visibility drop dramatically on their way to zero.
Interesting, Marie. What you are saying is you have to keep at it very regularly, which makes sense.
Melonie wrote: "Ian wrote: "If you see that, mention it in a review and give it 1 star. I must confess that I review a lot of Indie books, and I have never seen it that bad. I am reasonably tolerable of minor defe..."I don't see myself giving any 1 star reviews. I will DNF first and then not rate the book. However I will explain why I DNF'ed it and if it's because the writing sucks I will say so.
E.g. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm with Leonie.My books are products, and every aspect matters.
Cover.
Story.
Grammar.
Writing Craft.
Marketing.
Marie. You have 6 books out now. When you do a free promo, I assume it is Book #1 only that is free.Is that correct?
Graeme wrote: "Marie. You have 6 books out now. When you do a free promo, I assume it is Book #1 only that is free.Is that correct?"
I did release a prequel to the series that is novella length that I intend to experiment with for free promotions instead of Book #1. But yes, all this time I have only been offering Book #1 for free while the sequels stay at regular price of 2.99.
May genius stuff be buried somewhere among millions of ebooks? Mine isn't for sure, so - nothing personal -:)
Nik wrote: "May genius stuff be buried somewhere among millions of ebooks? Mine isn't for sure, so - nothing personal -:)"
Who knows? Who has the time to read them all? Then there are two more problems: what do you have to do to qualify for consideration, and second, would you recognise it if you saw it?
