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Amazon gets it a third right at fourth try, makes The Meyersco Helix partially FREE today, please post liberally
Andre, this needs to be fixed.CHAOS THEORY
"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"
An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse,
THE MEYERSCO HELIX
traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished **President’s** must choose either to let a self-propagating bio-war substance kill the world’s population — or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast.
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Also, I often see "towards" used where, in my region of the U.S., the word "toward" is used.
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Thanks, Sierra. Tried to fix it but it looks like the system won't allow you to change anything on a book that's free under Select presumably because the 70% royalty rate fights the presently $0.00 price... Will fix it afterwards.
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DOWNLOADS in the first 12 hours from c10am to c10pm my local time averaged just over 100 per hour. That's 2am to 2pm Californian time, with the day going-going-gone into the Pacific Ocean, so it isn't surprising that in the last hour the rate has picked up to 300 units per hour without me doing anything at all -- people in the States, where the novel is set, are awake.
This is clearly a better test than the one at Christmas that Amazon screwed up. Let's hope they don't screw up the end of this one.
One anomaly so far: 131 downloads in the UK strikes me as low when you consider that Andrew had an annual big bestseller and several extremely controversial novels there for a decade or a dozen years. The UK has approximately one fifth the population of the USA.
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
Congrats on the sales/dls 100 per hour is AWSOME!Will tweet again tomorrow.
I have several books going free the 14th, 15th, and 16th. We can compare notes after the run. I'm doing no promo.
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Thanks for the promise of tweeting again.
DOWNLOADS 0104am my time, after about 13 hours, 2360. That's just under 400 per hour currently, but these are likely to be the peak hours and rates. The average will be much lower.
We're running the freebie for three days, or four if Amazon doesn't screw up the day they promised to give back for their earlier foulup. I want to see if there is a natural limit, reached on (I suspect) the second day, after which downloads fall off.
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
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O111am 2400 downloads...
0113am 2414 dls
0114 2421
0115 2427
0117 2437
Oh, this is pretty exciting!
I have things to do!
'Badlands' Rescue' is going free on March 16th & 17th.Any tweets would be sweet.
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Any tweets would be sweet."
Okay. I'll do that.
Here's a tweet format for THE MEYERSCO HELIX to save y'all the work of writing it:
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#FREE Hypershock #thriller #bestseller THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy #save $9.99 http://amzn.to/p4zQP8 13-14-15-16 March RT
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0200am dls 2712, about 300 something in the last hour
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0400am (my time) els 3375
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
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0500am dls 3696 or around 300 per hour
THE MEYERSCO HELIX is currently FREE if you want to download it. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MLA4SK
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US
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
UK
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #169
#6 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Action & Adventure
#20 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers
DE
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #614
Nr. 3 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Populäre Belletristik > Action & Abenteuer
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Downloads in UK 155, Germany 7, France 3.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
I've just shared it. Thrillers usually do well on free download.
I'm in the car and my secretary can't find the thread in which you harassed Andre to publish my books faster. This thread is a good demonstration of why I want to wait until Andre is available to launch my next book. He just does everything right, even when he is not well.
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At 1005am, after approximately 48 hours FREE, the results are:
DOWNLOADS:
US 5993 (download rate slowing since yesterday)
UK 270 (disappointing, I was looking for a thousand)
DE 11
FR 6
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US
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38 Free in Kindle Store
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
UK
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #128 Free in Kindle Store
#4 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Action & Adventure
#16 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers
DE
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #697 Kostenfrei in Kindle-Shop
Nr. 4 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Populäre Belletristik > Action & Abenteuer
FR
Classement des meilleures ventes d'Amazon: n°424 d
n°2 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Mystery & Thrillers > Thrillers
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#FREE Hypershock #thriller #bestseller THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy #save $9.99 http://amzn.to/p4zQP8 15-16 March RT
You're doing far better than my numbers. One day and part of another day brought around 16500 downloads (most of them yesterday) spread over six titles, with the bulk of them spread across three titles. I still have tomorrow to go.Edit: I meant 1,650 ... not 16500. A bit of a difference there. Sorry.
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If you want to see a surprising turn of speed, look at Dakota's downloads for LE MANS at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8... -- she's a brand new writer, with one book, no track record, and already at half the downloads of Andrew's book, or near enough twice your downloads for six books. That's amazing to me.
I too have noticed a big falloff in download rate after the first day.
The falloff after the first day surprises me because last time the numbers built over five days as I hit good rankings in a variety of categories. Hitting them now, too, but with far fewer downloads.I did no promotion other than sending out a tweet for each title to those who follow me -- in other words, not to potential buyers, but mostly to fellow authors. That's just an announcement, not marketing.
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Last time Amazon screwed up my experiment, so there was only really less than a day, not enough time to conclude anything. But I noted that everyone else reported a buildup over a few days, and Sierra in particular was keen on five days. Now it looks to me, as I must admit I always thought, like anything longer than two days is a waste.
I'm not - KDP can't be predicted. I never got the same results after the first time. Let's Do Lunch - a giveaway total of 7123 over 5 days.
I'm using 2 days to launch 'Badlands' which looks like it's going to work out. It's #76 in short stories as of 1 pm EDT.
But KOLL never really helped with 'Swallow the Moon' for some reason, the book didn't hit.
I'm doing about as well today as yesterday.
If you'd only mentioned it on KUF, we could have listed it in the freebies of the day threads on Amazon.
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Ugh. I thought I did, Joo. Sorry. I must have become distracted. I just checked and KUF is definitely on my list.
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I give up on Amazon and Select. They're unreliable. Since the only reason for going into Select is the free days, if you can't count on those, Select is worthless unless you want to price your book high enough to make it worthwhile borrowing instead of buying it.
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DOWNLOADS for three days
US 6355 + 2 SOLD at $9.99 after it came off FREE +2 LOANS
UK 310 + 1 SOLD at $9.99 after it came off FREE
DE 11
FR 6
ES 1
TOTAL FOR THREE DAYS
6683 DOWNLOADS + 3 SALES +2 LOANS
Our target was 7500 for the four days, so 6683 in three days must be rated a success. Again, I'm surprised at the poor showing in the UK, for the reasons I explained to Sierra yesterday.
As expected, THE MEYERSCO HELIX fell instantly off the artificially-FREE-boosted rankness to:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,359 Paid
Andre Jute wrote: "Because Amazon screwed Andrew again, the test of THE MEYERSCO HELIX on the Select FREE program was limited to three days instead of the four scheduled.DOWNLOADS for three days
US 6355 + 2 SOLD a..."
Sad that "Amazon screwed Andrew again", but I can't resist saying that at half Andrew's numbers, Ferry was opening champagne before I was fully through the door yesterday evening, back from Slovakia just in time to get tipsy before dinner. Maybe there's a time to stop wanting more, to take stock and count your blessings.
Congratulations to Andrew and Andrew and the army of helpers I saw on Twitter on a job supremely well done.
Drink up, Dakota, beginners like us can celebrate without hesitation. Every sale is a victory.
Andre Jute wrote: "You're too nice to be an engineer, Dakota."Kench...
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0322 Irish time,
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,031 Paid in Kindle Store
(3h39m ago was
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,359 Paid in Kindle Store)
Perhaps Amazon screwing up helped things along? Great numbers you are posting! Amazon finally got back to me last week and offered a free day to compensate for messing up mine earlier in the month, I replied with a preferred date, but it's come and gone. I'm sure eventually they will rectify things. All is well, though, I had no time nor facility for promotion or even comparison study...
My final tally for three days, spread across six titles: 2,184. One book accounted for nearly 1,000 of those downloads. Amazon let the downloads run past midnight and there seemed to have been a bunch of downloads during what should have been a priced time. It's all fine with me.
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That's not bad, Sierra, considering that you offered no follow-through.
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#FREE #thriller #bestseller THE MEYERSCO HELIX by Andrew McCoy @thrillsmccoy #save $10 http://www.amazon.com/THE-MEYERSCO-HE... 30 March ONLY! #RT
That's the tweet I've prepared if you just want to lift it and send it
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What a saga. Amazon screwed up the original Christmas FREE days in the Select program totally. Between two books for Dakota Franklin and Andrew McCoy, CoolMain Press lost about 2.5 days out of six. Amazon offered one (1) free day in recompense, which was assigned to Andrew's book. The confirmed FREE day was widely advertised — and then just didn't happen. I had egg all over my face, just like Sharon, except a lot more of it. I then asked if the FREE day could be the next day, as it would be the last day the book was in the Select program, in which it had been put only for the free days. Amazon, as far as I can make out, didn't even try. Long, long afterwards I heard from them the by now routine apologies and the offer to try again to give us the FREE day. Suppressing the temptation to tell them to go do something to themselves with a hot stone for wasting such an inordinate amount of my time, I graciously set a new date.
Of course I didn't advertise anything. There was no point in trusting people with such wretched track record. Turned out I was right not to trust them.
An hour after the announced time nothing had happened. I wrote to Amazon. 2h40m late they made the book FREE in the US only. It's now four and a half hours too late, and still, despite me writing to them, Amazon have not made the book FREE in the UK. I can't be bothered to write to them again.
Of course, without any advance promotion, the FREE day is worthless, but I just wanted to see how long Amazon would drag out this clear assumption on their part that my time is free, that I have nothing better to do than sit here and wait for them, eventually, some years past due, to do something right.
Please tweet the fact that the book is free around a bit, so that at least we can say we did our part.
This is like trying to work with one of those African bureaucracies where you had better bring a hammock and a cool chest with food, and a steward to fetch you cold drinks, because you'll be in the queue a week before you find someone who'll even try to read your cheque — upside down.
It would be a comedy if it weren't such a wretchedly unnecessary waste of my time.
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The Meyersco Helix
http://www.amazon.com/THE-MEYERSCO-HE...
1351 30 March 2012, after being free only in the US for about 3 hours:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#100 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
I'm not so sure that the freebie is useless without pre-promotion. I'm of the opinion that many people check the freebies just to load their Kindles and they don't necessarily read what they download. They check the promotional channels for titles to acquire. They're hoarders. But there's another kind of reader who runs into the freebies by accident, perhaps when browsing for something else, and spots the freebie. We see lower download numbers when reaching mostly that latter group, but our work is more apt to be read. I base this opinion on absolutely nothing by a hunch.Another thing that affects downloads, IMHO, is the speed with which the free listing sites load the covers. If you happen to be down the page a ways and the seeker is scrolling fast, your book can be lost entirely because it hasn't yet loaded.
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Retweeted, FWIW. Eventually, I am sure, my own Amazon Select saga will come to a conclusion, but I have still to hear from them - for, to paraphrase Andre, the fourth (or is it the fifth) try at getting it a third right.
And I tend to agree with Patricia. I'm uncertain whether promoting FREE books on the FREE BOOKS sites will find the right audience.
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After about 12 hours FREE:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,017 Free in Kindle Store
#78 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Action & Adventure
That's on the sort of giveaway numbers that Andrew's and my Larsson book *sell* in a couple of days.
I don't know what to think. Both Dakota and Andrew have done better at $9.99 after even screwed-up freebie periods on Select than they ever did at $2.99.
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Thanks, Shazz!
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