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Why does a book sell better in one place?
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Maybe there's some word of mouth going on in the UK. It can begin with just one reader who spreads the word. Or perhaps your title has been picked up by a book club?
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For a start, the Brits claim the Australians as their own. (Well, until they meet them at home, then they conclude in a hurry that the Australians are pseudo-Americancs.) But educated Australians still write with British cadences.
But I would hate to predict that any book would be more likely to find a British audience than an American one. There will always be some small, unconsidered trifle of motivation that will trip up such a prediction.
It has been consistently reportedly since before Christmas that the British Kindlers are more price sensitive than the Americans, and that too has been my experience. (I had a brief fling with the 99c price band, simply as an experiment, and when I raised my prices again, my British sales stopped dead but the American sales kept growing.)
However, as Patricia said, all you need is one reader telling her colleagues at the office that she's enjoying your book.
For a start, the Brits claim the Australians as their own. (Well, until they meet them at home, then they conclude in a hurry that the Australians are pseudo-Americancs.) But educated Australians still write with British cadences.I was actually born in England, so maybe there's more than just education to the way I write.
My American/Australian/rest of the world sales started out okay, but then dried up. I wonder what I did wrong? Ah well, I'll keep talking to them. Maybe they'll come around.
I don't know where these rumours that us Brits are tight on price have come from..! Personally I'd pay a lot for a good book. Books are one of the pleasures of life, right?
While I'm not really surprised that I'm not getting many sales from Australia (we're always way behind the rest of the world in taking up technology, so the word 'Kindle' is generally met with a blank look) I do find this inbalance intriguing. Any ideas?