My Kindle Select Experience Part 3

Welcome to my third ‘Kindle Select Experience’ blog.  It’s been four days since my last post. Let me start by saying that my prior comments regarding inaccurate royalties was unwarranted.  With further examination, I see that some of the purchases were for my lower priced books, thus making my total royalty less than the expected 70%. My apologies to Amazon.

Although sales remain quite slow, I’m encouraged to see a recent surge in “borrowed“ books.  I’ve come to understand that my work can be “borrowed” by Amazon Prime members and at the end of the month I will receive a small percentage of a large pot of money.  I have no idea what amount this will be, but several blogs lead me to believe it will be around $2.00 per book. This is definitely something I wouldn’t get on all other search engines (at least I think), so not bad.

Finally, I’m about to test the real muscle of the Kindle Select Program.  Effective Wednesday 4-23-14 my book “4 Weeks to Live” will be free on Amazon.  This promotion will go for 5 straight days.

Stop on by for my post-promotion blog.  I promise to share actual numbers at that time.

http://www.amazon.com/4-Weeks-Live-Don-McGraw-ebook/dp/B00JM02W64/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397846290&sr=8-1&keywords=4+weeks+to+live

My Kindle Select Experiment.

It’s been 5 days since releasing my fourth book “4 Weeks to Live” with the Kindle Select program.  So far I’m not very impressed.  Sure, five days is a short time, but I guess I expected a little help from the Amazon crew.  I am, afterall, committing to keep my book off of Barnes and Noble and the like for a minimum of ninety days.  A decision that did not come easily. Over the years I’ve had far more sales on the Nook than on the Kindle. Nonetheless, all the hype about Kindle Select convinced me to give it a try.

So far I have sold very little, and I’m quite certain that the sales I have made are due in large part to my own efforts on Twitter and Facebook.  I’ve seen nothing in the form of a promotion from Amazon—what’s more, I’m only receiving a 35% royalty on a $2.99 book.  The site clearly states that I should receive 70% at this selling price. I wrote the book and they’re getting 67% of the profit.  I called them on this 4 days ago and am yet to hear back.

Not good news so far but it’s early. Very early.  Stay tuned for an update.

 http://www.amazon.com/4-Weeks-Live-Don-McGraw-ebook/dp/B00JM02W64/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397846290&sr=8-1&keywords=4+weeks+to+live

 

Come join me in my Kindle Select Experiment! 

Greetings fellow writers,

I hope this series of blogs will be helpful to all of you considering the Use of Kindle Select for your books.  Today my fourth novel, “4 Weeks to Live” became available on Amazon. I’m very excited about it.  I truly believe this is my best work.

My first work, Sins of a Nation, was my only soiree into conventional publishing.  I enjoyed a couple of years in bookstores and even a few radio spots and book signings.  Sounds great, but it wasn’t quite what I expected.  Since that time I’ve been content to sell ebooks and am happy to be doing so.

After much consideration I’ve opted to give the much-praised Kindle Select program a shot.  The notion of limiting my book to Kindle does not come without some strong reservations.  Oddly enough the majority of my ebook sales to date have come from Barnes and Noble’s Nook.  I have no idea why.  Nonetheless, I’m going for it for 90 days.  I intend to blog every couple of days with updates on my success.  I’m hoping this will be helpful to you.  Please make sure to check in. ---Don McGraw