Why Can NOT Your eBook Sell Like Hot Cakes (Japanese Edition)

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I suspect that increasing public knowledge of - and resistance to - DRM might be the best basis for such an argument. I further suspect that the place to look for evidence of this is in the computer game market, given the high-profile stances of sites like "Rock, Paper, Shotgun" and Youtubers like Totalbiscuit. You'd need quite a bit of evidence, particularly in the face of soaring ebook sales, though. I see that a lot with my hobby, photography. Meanwhile, we look jealously at the prices in Japan. There's actually a thriving market on ebay of people selling grey-market imports of camera gear from China and Japan.

I don't buy ebooks with DRM heck, I don't buy ebooks at present, end of discussion mainly because the e-reader I own is a very cheap and nasty one which does not speak wireless. It doesn't even mumble a corrupted dialect of same. If I want to load it up with new content, I have to load the content onto the computer, then copy from computer to e-reader via USB cable. On the one hand, it means I can't really make much use of the stuff from Big River and most of the other online distributors I'm not even sure whether I'd be able to get the TOR stuff DRM-free from the local Aussie ebook retailers.

On the other hand, the wretched thing works the same whether the internet is accessible in its vicinity or not. So at present, my e-reader is largely stocked with freebies from Project Gutenberg and if they'd actually name their epub files rather than numbering them, my life would be So Much Easier and a lot of downloaded fanfic from AO3. Charlie 13, El 12, and ChrisJ Yeah, I had some of those thoughts after I hit Submit. Apply my usual excuse - It was early here. Also I can imagine there are some writers who might actually support DRM, for whatever reason, and some other thoughts I'm not remembering at the moment.

I had intended to follow my question with Nah, didn't think so. And there you have the nightmare of protectionism whether government- or contract-enforced: What is in the best interest of the markets as a whole removal of restraints on trade is against the best interests of those with a direct, visible stake in the business. Which means as a question of policy, such inefficiencies are very, very hard to ferret out.

Please don't take this wrong, this is NOT a personal criticism, and I certainly am not trying to say working authors are in any way "the Man. Unfortunately most published novelists are in early middle age or older -- you seldom sell a book before you turn 30 -- so the formative experience of being on the receiving end of gaming or ebook or DVD DRM isn't there.

We're talking about the cassette tape, paper book, and VHS generation here, at best. Right now, we in the developed world are having a lot of pain -- falling living standards, rising kleptocratic oligarchs, etc. But the world overall is seeing massive gains in the standard of living, falling Gini coefficient, and so on. What's happening is that the developed world is losing its relative advantage as the third world plays catch-up. Eventually their rising standards will meet our falling standard and everything will level out I hope with a gradual upward slope in conditions if we manage to make it past the automation apocalypse without tearing our own guts out.

From a 22nd or 23rd century perspective, this is nothing to get worked up about. But the process itself is painful. Firstly, there's a natural regionalisation that goes on with translated work, and that is unlikely to change - although I expect a global English language market may anhilate the economics for translation. And I understand that European translated edition rights are very lucrative for authors, given that markets like Germany still have something like the NBA, thus high book prices.

Secondly - I think there was something nice about an arrangement where publishers or record labels could price to suit the local market. I'm also going to play Devil's Advocate and say that if you were, say, a high-level corporate executive - everyone looks at the music industry as a lesson in what not to do. It may be the wrong conclusion - what Apple and Amazon have both done exceptionally well is making it trivially easy to buy. But it's difficult to separate those two things. I buy significantly less stuff due to region locking, and I assume there are others like me in this regard.

Sure, some authors, such as our gracious host, do rather better and actually make a decent living, and a very few are better off by an order of magnitude or more. But a huge number of professional writers sit in a range from just above the official poverty line to well below it. Taking a huge paycut isn't an option unless someone else is going to pay them to write. I think we've forgotten the lessons of the past, and we cannot quite imagine what a real monopolist can and did do in the not-so-distant past. Ask about work-for-hire under the big comics publishers in the midth century.

What's new ish is that antitrust law is dead in North America, and the lock-ins available in electronic distribution make the combined monopoly and monopsony powers of the original 'trusts' read: Standard Oil seem charmingly quaint. I would remind the readers that it was never a criminal offence to modify your automobile to run on alternative fuels to the petroleum spirit supplied by Standard Oil - they could and did send in the heavies to shut you down if you started selling it commercially but individuals were left alone - but it's a criminal offence for a consumer to bypass DRM and the authorities are happy to enforce it.

Likewise, it was impossible to distribute any fuel that you produced yourself - Standard Oil were a monopsony one purchaser for any kind of distribution as well as monopoly - but they rarely called in heavies to close down your dead-tree lumber distribution company in addition to blockading your gasoline tankers. Such things were quite difficult but not completely impossible around the end of the 19th Century; but they are easy in the world of monopolistic electronic commerce. I cannot offer any 19th-Century analogy to revoking a consumer's license keys; but the 20th Century has plenty of examples of blacklisting that will do quite well as the analogy of a producer being shut out of the monopsonistic market for the purchase of their work for any kind of publication and distribution that would pay them enough money for a living.

These monopoly powers exist, and they are being used increasingly effectively; and there is no political will in North America to rein them in. It is entirely possible that there will be no 'mid list' authors working outside the EU in another 20 years: How hard would it be to unbundle just the eBook rights from the regional deals? Could you make it economical to get slightly smaller no-eBook regional deals and hopefully a larger advance with someone DRM-free for worldwide eBook rights?

You might get some confusion, for instance, that eBook doesn't show their regional cover, but other than that, I don't see any additional downside other than trying to negotiate paper and eBook rights separately. This means six hours per day, five days a week, for me. I consider myself very lucky in this respect. I get more free time to mainly for being more with the kids and I'm not dooming myself yet financially.

I do get a moderate salary, not high, but my wife earns enough we can make the ends meet. If I was ten years older as our GOH is , with different needs and finances, or even if my basic salary were lower, I probably couldn't do it. But that doesn't explain assuming I understand you correctly why you sell the ebook rights for a region along with the dead-tree rights. Although, maybe you'd split it by language, so one ebook publisher might have worldwide English language ebook rights, but another might have worldwide French translation ebook rights? I thought Charlie had covered this elsewhere, but publishers began demanding electronic rights quite a few years ago.

It's very difficult to get a contract with a publisher that doesn't include electronic rights, and most authors are simply not in a position to dictate that. As a result, publishers who buy regional rights are also buying regional electronic rights. And then requiring that any ebook seller enforce those regional rights. It seems like releasing an ebook 6 months later in the US than the UK would make the US publisher lose a lot of money. Can't I just buy the book from Amazon UK? It's not like I have to pay extra to have the bits shipped to the US.. It's not impossible, but neither is removing the DRM.

It's simply difficult enough that most people won't do it. And I think setting up an amazon account for a country you are not in is harder, so much so that I haven't done it yet, even though there are some ebooks I would otherwise get from Canada or the UK. As others have commented, it's not possible in the sense that the publishing houses insist on rolling the eBook rights in with the dead tree book rights.

But yes, it's also too sensible to be realistic. I was reading, in a very different context, a rant about a boilerplate contract that someone seems to think goes way too far earlier today. It occurred to me, and after circulating an email everyone, including the lawyers agreed, that the simplest way out was to add what the lawyers called a codicil. It basically spelled out that the contract was a boilerplate and all the clauses were understood by all parties to apply to facilitating this particular exchange and activity. Although some parts seem extreme to some parties they are the standard clauses that apply in these situations and all those involved understand they're only applying to this common venture.

Which they obviously had. Lawyers and common sense seem to very rarely go together. While publishers aren't lawyers, not necessarily, and most authors aren't either, there's a lot of lawyers that have got involved over the years. I understand your argument that you can't negotiate global contracts with a local distributor. The publisher expects to make back that advancei. Under that assumption, if someone breaks the region rule and buys your books from a different region, it just transfers income from one region to another and doesn't change your overall income.

As spouse of an author I can understand your wanting your money up front, but would the simplicity of abandoning regional agreements make up for having to wait a while for your income? You've missed marketing and distribution. Distribution is less problematic for ebooks find a handful of providers and sign deals but they're still not going to market it, so unless someone looks specifically, they won't stumble over it. You probably already realize this, but I think that most readers are not really going to care about these behind the scenes shenanigans.

Fans of a particular author, who have a personal connection to them such as, e. However, if there's a huge delay in ebook release dates such as happened with Pratchett's Raising Steam, something like 6 months between UK and US releases they're probably likely to just pirate the book immediately upon first release, and try to remember get around to buying a legal copy some time after the publishers are actually willing to accept their money. Can I just point out that the 'DRM-debate', 'regionisation' and 'Book vs eBook' debates are all very masturbatory relative to the real issue - people aren't reading books as a mass pastime any more.

We can probably assume from the various studies that half the population haven't read any fiction book in the past month past year is probably true as well. More people have checked facebook in any week than that. There are many more uses of what free time people have today, the time to devote per 'reading session' is much lower, and books, even ebooks, are basically the same as Dickens would recognise.

Where is the evolution, let alone revolution? The most that's happened in the past decade is the publishers have taken their typesetting files, pressed a button, and turned them into ebooks. Complete with all their insane contract terms from the print industry a century ago - include the subject of this thread.

The question isn't really dumping DRM and lock-in. It's not even regions and availability. It's partly price - but it's mainly value and that all the opportunities and avenues that technology has bought about have been studiously ignored. Take it back to it's barest essentials and the product is storytelling - weaving a collection of lies to entertain and enthral an audience.

That's the direction things should have been heading in - taking advantage of the opportunities - but instead it's ossified in place. The DRM, lock-in, regions, etc. The ultimate region restriction would be that I remember reading about some years ago in the biog of somebody reminiscing about being Lillian Hellman's handbag. Hellman's newest contract included a clause saying that the publishers had all rights "in the universe, and beyond.

Mind you, I bet that's in all the Laundry's legal bumf. There's the other side of it, of course. Exploitation of those immigrants. That one has been running in the UK since Empire Windrush docked. But no guvmint has done that, have they? We all deserve a better deal, but I don't think we're going to get one. You should have tried the late's! The price of even a secondhand Leica here was ridiculous - before VAT, we had: And cameras were a "luxury" - like refrigerators, for Gnu's sake One reason why UK domestic manufacturing in the period was so shite, actually - because the Treasury had imposed perverse incentives.

Australians also have more limited legal music choices in the new era. With the death of bricks and mortar music stores, it's rare to be able to buy or even order a CD of an artist. Now musicians release - sometimes exclusively - to iTunes or other compressed music services with such delicious options as 1 lower quality music at a higher price than a CD, 2 the Aussie tax, and 3 more often than not, simple lack of availability in the Australian iTunes store. Even the continental European stores are all wildly different in what they offer.

Unless you buy direct from a service like Bandcamp, with no geolocking, and one price irrespective of market, you may find that you cannot buy an artist's music. Many of them think their labels are doing them a favour by locking out most of the globe like this! It's amusing that some tour in countries where their albums are not available to buy legally.

More recently an ebook-only Amazon. A working prole is almost anyone with an income of under a quarter of a million, Sterling, per year. I know that sounds insane, but it's true. Remember, we are talking about the 0. It's just that popular conceptions are about years behind reality again. You can't sell paper-only rights to a book unless you have a already published it electronically and b it's enough of a bestseller that the paper-only rights are clearly worth buying. See also Hugh Howey -- who is enough of a rarity that I can name him as an individual.

If you are a regular author doing repeat business with a big five publisher on the basis of rolling multi-book contracts, you sell them e-book rights along with p-book rights as part of a package. Or you walk away. Can I just point out that the 'DRM-debate', 'regionisation' and 'Book vs eBook' debates are all very masturbatory relative to the real issue - people aren't reading books as a mass pastime any more Death of the Novel: And while I stick to this small field, I get the creative autonomy of a Spielberg or a Kubrick: I am the creative dictator of my own productions, rather than having to work on a team and provide content to fit someone else's requirements.

It also gets disproportionately more respect in cultural terms than most other similar-scale cottage industries.

To what extent does the visibility of region differences increase pressure to improve them? I mean, when what was available was represented by what was available from the local brick-and-mortar the casual reading audience didn't know what they were missing, and now they do -- but does this ever translate into sufficient economic pressure for third parties to jump into the fray and compete heavily in the ship-you-foreign-books game or for first-party publishers to try to negotiate simultaneous releases of big-ticket books with other publishers releasing the same book in a different region, as has been happening with the bigger Bandai productions recently in the domain of film?

Large corporations have a lot of inertia, but you need to be very large to withstand tides of irritated customers. Lois McMaster Bujold recently had her ebook licensing expire and is now managing all ebook sales herself. It's also a slightly odd situation in that Baen bundled a CD with the hardcovers of Cryoburn that essentially contained all of that series for free, with the words paraphrased "you can copy or share this at will as long as you don't charge" on it.

The other CDs they released under those terms are available at http: I expect a worse outcome. Globalisation implies trying to light everything at once, but there's just too much to light all at once - so it will go out instead the "Asian Tigers" aren't counter-examples, they grew with some of those special circumstances before globalisation and could gutter out if those circumstances fail before full ignition.

While I think you are right about catching up in the developing world, I fear we are going all to level up at some awful sub-basement far below "actually really decent for almost everybody" and stagnate there. Sure, is going to be a great jump for the people in India and China and the rest, no doubt, but with a glass ceiling that is way below what we should be expecting.

Assuming that the total sales are similar, which needs some unspecified magic around publicity, the cash flow is going to be very different. Lets say our Author sells a book idea to a publisher. The contract agrees an advance, which the publisher tries to set to reflect the likely earnings. This is paid in several large lumps, starting when the contract is signed. Another lump comes when the manuscript is delivered, and a third at some point when the book can be said to be complete, edited and proofed and in final form.

It's not crazy wrong to say this takes two years. Little of this time is spent in the actual printing and delivery process. And most of the sales will come in a quite short time. If the author has a good record, they can have two or three books at different stages of this cycle, and be getting advance payments from all of them. And there might be a small final payment if the book sells more than expected.

But there is a predictable two year income. Self publishing, ebook or physical, gives two years of bugger all, maybe a bit more because it takes time for sales to happen and the money to reach the author's pocket. Again, multiple books are possible, but there is other work the author has to do, on the publishing side, which gets in the way of writing multiple books. So it's a choice between a small income now, and a large lump some in around two and a half years. Do you have enough money to pay your bills for that time?

How do you make the transition? Something I saw today, and there are various reasons why I am dubious about one young author's view on the publishing business, but a few hours later I had something of an Aha! One reason I was doubtful about his view of the business is that none of his books had appeared in paperback. On the usual timescale, I would have expected to see them listed by now, especially with a new sequel to an earlier well-reviewed novel. There's a legal fix to this, if our politicians would get their act together, which of course they won't.

All it takes is a minor tweak to copyright law to say that the only regional rights that can be sold are ones based on the location of the vendor, not on the location of the purchaser, the same as for paper books. Then you can still sell your regional rights in different regions, but your readers can buy their ebooks from wherever suits them best. Of course that's nothing compared to the collapse in journalism. Back when I started writing full time an article in the business section of a major newspaper paid two or three hundred pounds.

It's now sixty or so - if that. That would be good, but I suspect it may be governed by one of the WTO treaties these days -- might take multilateral legislation to get it accepted, in the face of heavy industry lobbying because preserving the status quo is always the default option. Today I read an article in the China Daily about chinese authors publishing their work online on platforms like Hongxiu.

After reading your ramblings I wonder what do you think about this, Charlie? Does this trend seem a total chinese publishing quirk to you or do you see a posibilty that this can be a workable model in the western world too? I got the impression from this article that though the authors make the most money not from their online sales but from their deals with publishers afterwards. This chinese model caters to the world of both the tech savvy young people reading their books a thousand words a day on their cell phones and the older people buying the printed books in the shop.

So would it be possible in the regional diversified western publishing world for a platform to emerge where authors can write their books online and sell say a thousand words a day of the raw and unedited version for a few cents or a subscription model online and get a following by doing that and than sell the ebook and paper rights to a real publisher afterwards? I think especially for midlist authors this seems a good model to broaden the readership, have your books availlable worldwide at the same time and still can sell regional rights to the publishers.

Never said you shouldn't be. Indeed, if you cast your mind back, I'm all for authors having more control, a bigger slice of the profits, and the whole thing being more a 'collective of cottage industries' than you were. Nope, my point is from a top-down perspective - books as a domain really haven't moved forward. And in part I attribute that to the ossified mindsets of those big publishers you were talking about. They are shovelling the same old stuff out the door with the same old conveyor belt. You use this site for two interesting but simple things; finding typos and snafus in text for new versions and reissues, and allowing people to comment on their experiences reading those new releases.

Imagine an eBook reader where those two functions were built in, where every book could have that minimal level of engagement integrated right into the book, as you were reading. Yet, they aren't there. Neither are all the other things that could be trivially integrated to deliver a better overall experience.

And that's before we get to the other concepts periodicals, author subs, etc. We could do with fostering more innovation via that type of route, I'd suggest - but it would have to be author and reader led. The sort of people who read this blog probably know that there are other ways to acquire books that don't require that sort of faffing about.

It's not something I advocate, but on this occasion the temptation was very, very strong. As a confirmed bibliophile, at the last count I have well over 2, dead tree books lining the walls in almost all the rooms here bathroom and to a lesser extent kitchen apart although there are recipe books in the kitchen , my purchasing habits have changed and while there are books I still buy in dead tree format it's becoming increasingly rare for me.

I used to buy books to finish series that I'd started on paper in dead tree for that completist urge but not so much any more. I'm more likely to find or buy the books in eBook format and get the series that way, and buy the new books as they come out in eBook format. The Rhesus Chart is a fine case in point. The early Laundry books are in paperback somewhere, The Rhesus Chart was downloaded just after midnight on the day it became available in the UK.

But, of course, I'm a sample size of 1. I imagine it depends a lot on your target audience and so on. There are also a number of imprints where they'll push a book in eBook format first and if it sells well enough they'll consider a physical print run. There are extra overheads - sure a lot of the costs of proofreading etc. A friend of mine who is an author changed publishers a few years ago after the one she originally signed with went under. Although the new publishers accepted her track record of sales, their new author deal was basically "we print you as eBook only first and if your sales crack this level, we'll look at a physical print run.

I haven't checked recently but the last time we chatted about it, her eBook sales were running about 2: Some of them, some who are quite big names in the field, the publishers don't publish physical books with the author's agreement because the numbers are too low to make it financially viable - although they shift eBooks like relatively speaking hot cakes. I've used at least six different Amazon stores without having addresses in most of their countries - their only geolocking seems to be IP-based for MP3 downloads.

Well, I, for one, am distinctly pleased by your decision. There are several people in this World who can write Iron Man, but only one who can write Charles Stross novels. Yes, such a system is possible. The problem is, how do you reach the readers? Remember, most folks read either on the web, or in walled garden apps such as the Kindle increasingly on their phone, formerly on a dedicated e-reader.

As it happens Amazon already supports a serial model and some authors I know have published novels that way. The two big questions in my mind are a accessibility to the largest audience and b how not to get shackled to amazon's juggernaut. I think you overestimate the "trivially" in "trivially achievable". Building features into rich web applications such as epub which supports CSS3 and javascript, believe it or not is still a development job and actual paid software development is IMO probably orders of magnitude more expensive than writing prose in terms of what you get for your money.

It's obvious that a Python tutorial would be enhanced if, instead of static source code listings in its examples, the examples were editable and could be executed by hitting a "run" button in the editor window, right? And there is a virtualised python VM built on javascript, and an editable terminal in javascript, and so on, so this is in principle achievable within epub 3 format files right now.

But nobody's done it because programming books are even more badly paid than midlist novels and the additional cost of the software integration work exceeds the total cost of producing a new book, while the risk exists that the book won't sell and, as the said VM and terminal packages are open source, rivals will subsequently use the same material for free and all you've succeeded in doing is raising the readers' expectations while making a commercial loss.

It may happen eventually if the open source documentation folks want to make it work, but they're mostly doing it as an afterthought to developing software in the first place. Unless you buy direct from a service like Bandcamp, with no geolocking, and one price irrespective of market.

Which insures that billions of people will never buy from them. Now you can argue that we should raise up the income of these folks but that's several generations away at best. The larger market will make him more likely to sell more on the next iteration. Actually they way I look at it the product has evolved. The product is entertainment. Today we have movies, TV, and all kinds of stuff that you can go to, view in your home, or take with you.

I just did an 8 hour drive with a backlog of Charlie Rose interviews to keep me awake. I normally record CR but don't have time to "watch" them during much of normal life. And to be honest I suspect that even back in the day with stage coaches and trains, reading was problematic due to the vibration of the ride. I have a friend who is a real estate broker. It's supplemental with a hope to make a killer deal at some point. The edge case would be "more money plus smaller audience". At which point I have a dilemma Bandcamp's prices are set by the artist, and "pay what you want" is an option.

So the price isn't set per market by someone who knows what the market can bear, but is set by the people who in theory know the customers best. It's possible, in that it's already happened. Meet Inkshares and Patreon the latter appears short of prose writers, but that doesn't seem to be because the platform prohibits them. Can I just point out that what you are describing isn't a book, its a form of media more closely related to oral histories or campsite story telling, and therefore not really relevant to the point at hand.

Presumably it would have different distribution mechanisms not necessarily related to the publication of books. I may or may not be a luddite in a small minority but I dont equate a multi-media experience with that of reading. We have a winner. This is the big problem in web services. Solve that, and all the kludgy, baroque workarounds to generate a revenue stream go away. Most people are not adverse to paying for stuff even stuff 'on the web'.

People don't tend to be like corporations that way; when was the last time a corporation was accused of having a sense of fairness? And we damn well knew about this problem and understood it back in It was the subject of panel discussions at the W3C conferences back then. You youngsters, get off my lawn! We don't have a portable micropayment solution, but Apple iTunes is racking up billions of dollars in sales each year from selling individual songs and game tokens. Never mind the dollar mini-payment.

How about a one cent payment for webcomic artists? There's nothing to support that, and I don't see anything coming soon. It's not that it wouldn't be useful, either. You and other humans would email other humans just as you do now and not worry about it, since it's trivial and your interpersonal notes mostly balance out anyway. Not so for any company in the business of sending out millions of emails a day I disagree with the idea that reading is going out of fashion.

When I was in my early teens I read an essay by - I think - Asimov pointing out that reading for pleasure has always been a minority sport. If you get the habit then you keep it. Someone is buying and reading those teen vampire books. Most educated and literate people never or very rarely indeed read a novel. It's always been that way and always will be. Indeed, this argument is supported by the oft-quoted even if inaccurate statistic that the average houshold only owns 6 books.

Apple's model is interesting; if you buy a track or an app, you don't get your credit card dinged immediately -- they leave it open for hours before you get billed. Most folks don't just buy one item for 99 cents -- they buy several, over a day. I also note that Apple sell gift cards through retailers. Lots of gift cards. I'd speculate that gift cards are the main way that many unders make purchases from the iTunes store at least if their parents are sensible. Both gift cards and deferred credit card billing are smart strategies for reducing the number and increasing the size of credit card transactions, which are relatively expensive typically costing cents, retail, although Apple undoubtedly have some kind of sweetheart deal with Visa and Mastercard simply because of their immense size and leverage.

I've posted about regional restrictions before and as a believer in globalism and international free trade, I loathe them with a passion that is hard to describe. While they exist I will continue to be a pirate and a smuggler and do everything I can to undermine them. Well, I wouldn't give a U18 a credit card that I was guarantor or billee on, but I'd have no similar reservations about them having a pure debit card atached to an account of their own.

I haven't seen them on this side of the pond, but in the US most convenience stores, supermarkets and drugstores have racks of gift cards you can buy -- Amazon, Apple, whatever -- and in addition, they sell pre-paid credit cards. I believe you can top them up as well, but am unsure. If wanting to carry a credit card in a dodgy area, or give one to an under, this would be the way to ringfence your risk. Not quite so since what the server shows you and at what price depends on where it thinks you are. Amazon Kindle store is the home store for the US and for everyone who hasn't a local Kindle store and for those who have a local Kindle store but want an English language site or want to buy in US dollars.

Charlie, you can get cash reloadable debit cards in the UK, I have on for use on the internet when I do not trust the seller. I really want to get my books out there! Any help would be greatly appreciated. In your Amazon Author Dashboard, go to Bookshelf. Once your book is enrolled in KDP Select and is available for sale on our website, you will be able to schedule free book promotions in two ways:. The Promotions Manager will allow you to schedule one or more free promotions, edit or delete a scheduled free promotion, or stop an ongoing free promotion.

If you choose to stop an ongoing promotion, it can take from a few minutes to several hours for the action to take effect. Thank you so much, WJ Davies. I knew I was being a complete idiot. Thanks ever so much for the advice. Am still in the free promotion phase but doing really well so far, currently 36th in the Suspense Free downloads list. Think this has a lot to do with some of the things you mention in your article.

Waiting to see what will happen on Friday when it goes back to priced. Cheers for the guidance. Am now eagerly working on my follow-up novels which I have been jotting for ages! Hey, thanks for your blog post, it was very useful to read through, a great checklist! I can only see the paid on KDP. Where do I get this info?

I can certainly vouch for using KDP Select to boost sales. I had five and a half thousand downloads by the end of Sunday and the book stayed at No. That is an awesome reaction to your free promotion. I published my very adorable if I do say so myself on KDP and then offered a free promotion for two days and only had 23 downloads.

So I strongly suspect that lots of people just download free books whenever they come across them. My first promo day was done without sending a word anywere — just people saw the book and took it. That day there were downloads, because I decided that was enough for them and stopped the promotion. Secrets behind Reality was downloaded times with absolutely NO reviews, after that the sales went to copies a day and then 0 for the past 2 days.

Oh, Debbie, I only now see that your comment was not addressed to me. Hi Marina, No problem at all. Good luck with your book and I will check out the blog you recommended anyway. I appreciate any advice! A little late to the party but wanted to share my experience with KDP. I helped my dad publish his novel, The Runaway Kindle in December of We had a few sales but it sat languishing in the 6-figure of sales I think it was , in its category.

I tried the KDP program two separate times about 4 months apart and gave away about copies which resulted in some sales — but for the most part, total sales were still in double digits. The third time I tried it I found every free announcement site on the web including Twitter and Facebook. I made my announcements a couple days previous to the launch, the day before the launch, the day of the launch, halfway through the free period and on the last day.

Over 22, downloads in 5 days which resulted in over sales over the next 3 months and 30 pretty positive reviews. Run your campaign towards the beginning of the month so you can capture the sales during that month. The beauty of the program is that you can do it every 90 days. I just consider these quarterly sales numbers. This is gold, and new to me: One other thing I should add: My most success came with starting a 5-day campaign on a Saturday and wrapping it up on the following Wednesday. Horrible download numbers around holidays. Could you please clarify my doubt? Same royalties as described in the post from Amazon.

How long do you normally have to wait to get sales going up? Here is my question I am self publishing using create space are you telling me that the only way to get on K-amazon is to not allow create space to sell any books of mines? And neither can any of you keep pushing until something happens good luck fellow Authors its your year. Good to hear about your book coming out. Best of luck with it. See the comment three above this one my response to Fahran above. This is an awesome post! Or it was listed there as well after the KDP Promotion ended?

Free downloads count towards that list, as do paid. So some people will see you at the top of those lists regardless of whether free or paid. It did slowly go down again after the big rush, but you do get some time at the top which also increases cross-sells. Thank you for the post. Your post contained some useful information. Good to hear about your book. I wrote my book in MS Word, and then spent the 6 hours or so massaging the styles.

One other thing you could consider is: If you wanted, you could outsource that part: Thanks a lot for the great advice! Love your idea of going free for awhile. I am new to Kindle. Immediately after publishing, i enrolled 5 days free promotion. But still didnt see any sales. Is it a wrong step? How Kindle readers will come to know about my book? I just published my first book and was going to run a free promo on it. Did any one here have reviews already before they ran their promos? I had two reviews when I did my first giveaway. By the time I did my third and figured out how to do it right I had two dozen reviews.

The point of the promo is to get the reviews. I got a couple out of the promos. I took your advice and I got downloads from zero in the previous week! Then it went back to zero! Funny thing is the folks who have read it tell me they were splitting their sides laughing…. Just wanted to add a word of warning that I learned the hard way today: If you edit your book after your free period or anytime, I suppose , you will lose your rankings in all categories! My new release Kindle Gold: I had close to 2, free downloads and I was 1 in one category and 3 in another.

But, after the free download period, I added in a bonus chapter that some customers were asking about. After my book was re-uploaded, ALL of my rankings went away. Interesting note there about changing content and influence on sales.

I noticed that if you change catagory mid promotion then you can suddenly lose ranking position big time! Just an extra note, I saw an article earlier about setting up a Facebook fan page. It is a work in progress but any comments and suggestions welcome. Hey Michael, Great to know. That happened to me too!!

I went ahead and ran my KDP promo and announced it beforehand, as Jay suggested. I think I was a little too tentative. Many thanks Tristan, It is a bit strange having the real thing here. I figured if I was going to have a stab at it then I may as well put the effort in. Even if it all fails, I have a physical copy.

I have read these comments here with interest and have now tried to follow your advice, but I am not sure it worked out so well, so therefore I ask about an honest feedback. I have just published a Kindle with essays made from interviews with muslim women on equality. I had five days promotion and I had only downloads. The link to the kindle is: There were 6, free downloads , Nov , with most of them in the first three days.

Now I want to do two days free on my sequel, but I changed internet providers in December and lost all my files on advertising. I think they really help. I have a promo period coming up in june so I would be very interested in learning more. This is a great article. I took a lot of time with my book, did a book trailer and everything, view here at http: I have read all of the comments here and found it to be very insightful.

I joined KDP on August 12, and immediately used the 5 day free promotion. I let everyone on my contact lists on my cellphone and FB know it would be Free. I had about downloads during that Free Trial. After the trial ended I had about 20 sales, but I was excited to have any at all being an unknown author. Suddenly my book was ranked at 6, I had about downloads and more international sales and downloads. I eventually re-edited my book and re-released 2 editions, a short-version which is 64 pages and a longer version which is 95 pages.

I now have 11 reviews and many people who have emailed me, texted,tweeted and LinkedIn me stating they will be posting more reviews. I also changed the cover. I am currently in a Free trial with a steady download of about per day from every country except Italy and whatever BR is. Now it is in the proper category of Romance, adult, thriller and inspite the increased number of downloads the books have never been rated higher than in the Kindle store during the Free trial.

I would love some constructive advice as to what I can do to increase my sales and I appreciate your input in this forum. I love this article, very insightful. I have written 3 full novels over the last 2 years and am planning on publishing them on amazon soon, once I get over the nervous knots.. I write under different pen names. Would I have to open a new account for each name? In terms of pen names: You could try pinging Amazon an email. I have just one KDP account in my real name and that works fine in terms of admin, royalties etc. Update, I am at the end of day 1 of a 72 hour promotion.

I agree with you on enrolling with KDP. My cousin has a self book titled Ignite your life. It has been downloader , in just one day! But here again, its all about quality. Just a quick update. Some great advise in here! I have done two free promotions so far for my book The Malthus Conspiracy http: How do you convert good free downloads to sales???

Hi Danielle, Glad you liked the article. Good numbers on the downloads! This can turn into further sales as well. Thanks for your advice. Any recommendations would be welcome. My website is http: Can you give me any pointers as to the best way to format it through Microsoft word? Also, as I was writing my draft I added a line of dashes to separate each section.

This created one solid black line that I cannot get rid of! Do have any idea how to get rid of this? Oh, the joys of formatting for Kindle! Kindle publishing pro is what you can use. I got it cheap last year. I think my Nook sales are literally 1. Have you tried anything like that? Obviously, you have an active blog community, so that may end up being kind of the same thing!

I did release a couple of snippets on the blog — chapter excerpts from time-to-time, and also the table of contents and sample chapter. Definitely worth a shot! However, sales on Smashwords are a small percentage of my amazon. Hi Tristan, Is this only available for self published authors?

It is also available for sale on Barnes and Nobles, and Warren Publishing. I am a bit disappointed with the lack of exposure and only a handful of reviews. Thanking you in advance for your time and advice. Please feel free to visit my website at http: Perhaps this could be a question for your publisher? Maybe there is something else wrong with my book? Thanks for taking a peek if you have the time. I loved any advise at this point. Do you think I should wait until book two is complete to put in Select? Hello Tristan, Thanks for the great article.

We built a small website to help with the promotion, http: We were thinking of handing out bookmarks with a QR code linking to the website. Curious to know how else folks promote kindle books in person. There are some good other suggestions in the comments on this post — perhaps they can help. This used to be the key, but not anymore, because Amazon changed the weight a free book has in the ranking algorithm. I would be surprised if it worked for a brand new fiction book anymore because though the ratings peak while free, they plummet as soon as the freebie is over, so the follow on sales are virtually non-existent.

There is also a glut of free books so the word free does not have the same pull it once did. Even those who previously established themselves on the back of such promos are seeing less results for their giveways. Apparently you need 5, or more downloads to make it have a follow on effect. The latest word is that for most people free is dead. Readers are getting savy.

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Hello — really enjoyed your article, thanks for the advice! Soooooo, I put my book up on Amazon today for free. My downloads as of 8: Holy cow… my question is — really I just need your opinion — Should I keep up with the momentum? I have the free downloads set up until Tuesday… should I stop it? But freaking out a little too. I hope it means sales!

Miller-McKinnon Interrogating the Dead: Mayhem and Misery Bay coming soon to Kindle. Brilliant article on how to use the KDP Select programme. I really do recommend doing promotions but you do need a tool to let the public know. You really can do it! Are Kindle and Amazon one and the same? Amazon is a massive giant, selling almost anything you can think of.

The Kindle is a hard-goods product, their e-reader. Real life experience is always the best. I have followed every step of your advice and removed my book from Smashwords and enrolled in KDP select. I will post progress and share my experience if folk are interested. Hi Tristan, Great article. I have 12 ebooks on kindle and this my first KDP select experiment with a free book.

The 5 day period has almost expired with over free. I wait with baited breath to see if people buy when the freeby time expires. Will keep your readers posted. Flat belly secrets at http: Great to hear about that. Very informative and helpful! Good work on the launch. So, if I am to price my e-book at 1. Did I get this right? Hi Ramz — correct. My quick ask is: Hi Richard, Good work on getting it out there! Yes — you can offer it for free, then change the price as needed, through your KDP dashboard. This is a very helpful article and the benefits of placing your book in Amazon KDP However, you can get a lot more downloads if you submit your book to the book promotion sites that will promote it for free.

Here is a good list of them http: How long is the exclusivity period for? Best to check their terms. Thanks for the advice! I enrolled in KDP Select, making my book free for two days. Hi Graeme, Glad you liked the article. I did include one footnote attribution for a name I linked to, and I purchased the front cover image, which gave me a license of up to , copies. Thanks so much for a wonderful article. I read it just prior to releasing my Kindle book, Nicole Benson. Thanks again for the great info! Keep up the good work and continued success. Another website to promote your book, http: I am impressed at your statistics.

I, like a few here, have just put my first book up on Amazon. Being a woman I found it scarier than I could have believed. You say you took 9 months to get to the publish button well how about 30 years? I know, I know, but my life has been so busy and I was lucky my personal publisher Brian did everything you did and that was why our results are better than we expected. Great reading others like yourself find this a little difficult but exciting too. I think my nest book will go easier now. Thanks for the kind words! Best of luck, Tristan. Great article, my friend took your advice and sold over copies in four days.

Her book is After the storms by Rauzet moustache. Well done and glad you liked the article. Thanks so much for the advice, Tristan! I published my first ebook about three weeks ago and sold about 20 copies. I posted it for free on KDP one day ago and have had nearly downloads thus far! Hi all, Thought I might quickly update on recent experiments using social media to spread awareness about my novel. All in all, I have had some additional sales, nothing mega. Am more concerned with getting the follow-up novels sorted out otherwise I am going to end up losing my current fan base!

It is also a great place to get new ideas and network with fantastic cover artists, editors, promoters, etc. Running the FB group page also tells me how many people have seen my various status updates. Although only 78 have liked my page, I know that several hundred have seen various updates. There are people on there who are genuinely trying to help other authors with advice and even the opportunity to have their books listed.

However, I have found the majority of people are using the forum to promote their novels with frankly underwhelming ads and they wonder why their books are not selling. They are actually trying to convince other authors to buy their books. Twitter is an excellent way of spreading the word also. The full blog can be read at … http: Cheers again Tristan, Andy Twitter: How long should I wait before offering it on promotion as a free download? Should I offer it free straight away? Grateful for any advice. Your mileage may vary..

Even just for one, day, then split out the other days. Thank you VERY much! Hi Tristan — I was wondering if you know of a way you can give free books on Kindle using a specific one-use coupon. Best to check with Amazon on that.

I have a few Kindle Books on Amazon and am wondering if you know how I can check the numbers that have been downloaded for free on amazon prime? I figure they must be getting downloaded because a couple on my books are in the top in a couple of different categories. Appreciate any insight that you may have on this. I am going to try your advice. I have had my book on Amazon for 2 months and have not tried the free promotion.

I used Google Trends to identify the most-searched-for languages, and used that in my keywords. You could try the same for your niche. Very helpful, I have been worried the free option would canabalise sales but the truth it seems is it only multiplies exponentially exposure and therefore revenue in the long run. Thanks for your wonderful article here, is pretty good.

Hi Dav, Nice to see you getting into the publishing game. You can see this in your Amazon Dashboard under Free Borrows. Thanks Tristan, you are the best. They have not posted any info on my Dashboard. Please, as an experienced personnel in this field; like my eBook appear live on the 27 September, this is October 26; when will it suppose to appear on Dashboard? Fortunately, I followed your advice, before I read your excellent article! I only have book 1 on KDP Select. The idea is to get coverage for that book and, see if that results in sales for books 2 and 3.

Does that sound like a reasonable plan? Thanks again for a great article. I had totally different experience with KDP free promotion. My book was 1 in two categories marriage and divorce during the free promo. As soon as promotion was over my book was kicked down to !!! Can you explain it? Thanks in advance, Nauris. Your article was a great help in steering me in the right direction. After day one I had free downloads and as of now, day 2, I have I have noticed a major slowdown though after a blistering fast start. I took all of your advice, and as terrified as I am about rejection, I went live on Amazon this morning.

As of this morning, my first volume of poetry is available on Amazon for all Kindle formats. A Mustard Seed Of Poetry is available worldwide for all to enjoy. After years of hard work and dedication, my writing has gone that extra mile. Above all else, enjoy. This is great stuff; thanks. I have several books up on Kindle now. Just those 14 days or whatever it is; or during the promotion times? Your answers and comments? Not quite sure on the exclusivity times to be honest. Best to check with Amazon for that.

I am so grateful to you and everyone out there who take the time to give advice and share their experiences with other writers.

I put my first book on KDP Select a week and a half ago and have rode a roller coaster of emotions. It was probably the most joyful experience of my life creating my story. I felt happy and in such great spirits as the book took shape. Yet after finishing the writing and editing process, it was time to throw it out to the world and hope it gets caught by others. I feel encouraged by your strategies and outlook.

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Plus, the comments I have seen following the article has also made me feel less isolated in my endeavor, and more apart of a large community. I now feel connected to others who love to tell stories and write as I do. Again I am thankful for all that take the time to share their struggles and their triumphs.

Here is a link to my book for all that are interested. And feedback from any direction is highly valued!!! Hi King, your article came in handy.

I just published my book on KDP. Without promotion I made a sale. Waiting patiently to see what the outcome of the promotions will be. It is on review right now, kindle says. So, I am thinking of giving it a day or two as a chance to stand on its own. If it does not being any attention by its own, I am thinking of doing the kindle select. Your advice if very valuable. Thank you for sharing with us!

I have heard a lot about doing two or three days consecutively to really get momentum so am trying that out and I will report back. My book seems to be doing Ok sales wise but not massive, the Nov total was about 75 and Dec is looking like breaking — with very little promotion. My main tactic so far is to optimise the keywords for the book and get a little bit of social sharing going but I believe if you really want to sell loads of books you need to market it and focus on doing a couple of things really well rather than loads of things really poorly, especially if you are like me and have a day job that takes up all your time.

Two things I am going to try in the new year to get general non Amazon traffic are using Slideshare. The concept is to make a visually appealing PowerPoint sideshow that showcases your book — kind of like a film trailer and then Slideshare and google will do the rest I do this in my day job and its very effective. Google hangouts video chats — again these rank on Google very quickly. Get a few friends together who read your book and discuss it, kind of like a book club — even better get other authors and do a round robin, anyone want to join me in that?.

Ensure your book link is in there and you are using the top target keywords in conversation — hangouts actually transcribes the words and uses it to work out what the video is about and to rank it in search results. Sylvia, author of Angel From the Streets http: Thanks for the tips. It is just 12, words. Do you think its reasonable to have the free period say for 3 days for a pricing of USD2.

Or is that a tad expensive? Nice, it was always cool to read the comments here and see the progress. It was a film script I wrote and I have converted it into a book. Thanks for you great article. It was very helpful, and it is always good to get some guidance when branching into something new. One step at a time, and this was a nice first one.

I have a good feeling about it, though I also have to be patient and be in the moment. Congrats on the success of your book! Looking forward to contiued learning and growth! Thanks for all the info of KDP. If you have any more pointers, please share. My promos work, free downloads in two days. Thanks for the article it was informative. Great article on understanding ranking and promotions. The covers are really good. Great article thank you. I am currently formatting my book ready for kindle. It is a pretty large fantasy story and I was wondering whether it might be best to split into two parts and let the first part be continually free on Kindle, what do you think?

Good luck with your fantasy. Although there are examples of novels which have been divided and portions on perpetual giveaway, I. The Island by Michael Stark — a rather successful example, it really comes down to your novel. Does it work as a two parter? Is there a enough detail in the first part and a gripping cliffhanger to get people to read the second part? Is it in a position where you can split it into two parts? The beauty of indie is that you can have a go and if it works great, if not you can try another approach.

Any ideas on publishing outside of the U. Im based in Thailand and wandering if you can use amazon global with KDP direct and any policies regarding tax and payment. Its easy to set up paypal here but logistics and laws are a different matter.

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Thanks for the useful info…. Can you be a bit more specific with your question so I can help you out please. Thank you for an excellent posting. I appreciate how you shared the details of your results and the experiences you gained. As an author on Kindle myself, marketing is our number one challenge! Getting reviews for your amazon books can be hard but they really do help sell your books on the marketplace. If you need an honest review in less then 24hrs of your book I can do that for you: This is a wonderful technique, thank you!

I had downloads between two books, in just a few days, I was ecstatic! In just a few days one of my ebooks was on page 2 for search terms pertinent to the book! But the minute the free promotion ended no one bought the book. I am dumbfounded why. I have one negative review from some grumpy person, it seems he is ruining my e-book sales. I find that most people cannot be bothered to review books, even when they have enjoyed them. I did this by looking at reviewers of similar books to my own.

I picked one which had given an unfavourable review to a book I considered very poor, contacted the reviewer and sent a copy via e-mail. As it happened, I had contacted a professional proof-reader and editor, who kindly pointed out some proof-reading problems, read my book and gave it an honest review and 4 stars.

What you should do is two things, firstly get the book edited. Secondly put a call to action right at the end prompting your readers to review your book. So far only one were sold, no reviews. Could you suggest some forums where I can promote this book? Regards and thanks for useful info. I am very glpad to peer your article. Thanks a lot and I am looking forward to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a mail? Just want to that was great information that you shared.

My book is already on Amazon in book form and on Kindle and I have not had a single sale. To me it is very discouraging but I trust that things would be better. Thanks for an interesting article. And now I promote and wait!

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Im not expecting miracles. One very good way of getting your name around is to do as many interviews as possible, especially if the topic is related to your book. Great story and advice with regards to your success in publishing for Kindle through Amazon…Cheers! Just hours after the promotion ended it was nowhere. I am hearing more negative results from the KDP day giveaway than positive. Sounds to me like you are cutting yourself off at the legs in doing this. Have you ever thought that those hundreds of free downloads could have resulted in actual sales?

To illustrate; I love a particular writer and was waiting for her next novel to come down in price. I was about to buy it anyway, when I saw it was being offered for. I immediately bought at that price. Had it not been reduced, I was going to buy it anyway. Most people buy books in rotation. In other words, they buy books, read them, and then buy another group. As I said, people buy books in rotation and your book might be next in that rotation. As an author myself, the only way I would personally do the KDP free giveaway, is if I had a series and was giving away that first book of the series.

Then I could see doing it to get readers interested, which could result in sales for the rest of the series. Just my two cents. Thanks for this great post Sean! Take advantage of the launch of a new site thebooksmachine. The platform has a paid membership but they are offering free memberships for a limited time. Regularly edit and improve the description of your book on those online stores.

A reader judges your writing based on your description. Create visual support for your book through a website so that when you post on social media you have a visual connection. There are tons of tutorials. Thanks for sharing this. I found that Amazon Kindle market is getting really crowded these days there are more than 2,7 million titles. The guys from K-lytics did an excellent minutes video on the Kindle market: This is a really good article thank you for taking the time to write it Sean. A few reasons why this came about….

I decided on publishing with another company located in where you are living now Sean Thailand. You get the choice of platforms for your book to appear on and they pay monthly via pay pal. Actually for me this is more convenient than dealing with Amazon. I think the advice to give it for free for a little bit might be useful. I might try that and see if it helps my sales. Last month September I gotten real lazy and basically slacked off doing nothing for my kindle business and guess what?

But, I have noticed my sales increasing by a few sales here and there for one of my books. If this used to work, it no longer does. And sometimes no rise at all. And sometimes a decrease. Steven, I would have to agree with you- the day of promoting free books is pretty out-dated now. It use to work but not so much any more. Instead the trend is towardss using subscription services like http: I wanted to see it. I know it will take off. Its patients, timing and getting that step up, that mini break where it gets viewed by many.

My book is below…. Marty, I love the cover. Book covers are usually longer with a shorter width. And then the title of the book is a little hard to see on the cover because the black lettering blends in with her black hair and some shadows sometimes. I think you might want to choose a lighter font so people can see the name. Congrats to you on that. Hey Crazy eyes, thank you for your wise comments. Interesting article, this but looking at some of the grammar and punctuation within it and that in some of the replies, I wonder if some people are cut out for creative writing.

There are some odd sentence structures and missing commas. This is all self published. No editor has combed this page for errors, which are in your comment as well as mine. Have also signed up for Select, partly thanks to this post. Cheers for the advice!!! Goodness, Sean I was of the opinion, I had devoured everything on your site and now I discover this. My line of writing is poetry, and it does not sell well but I do have a few short stories and I think I need to try a shot at that. KDP is on my my mind now.

It looks like I am going to be not only an LR but also a publication rebel! KDP is my my goal. You can also list your free eBook promotion on http: You can advertise it everywhere. Wow thank you so much for writing this. I heard about kindle self publish and just published my 3 books on kindle select. Yet to make any sells. What do you advice? Rule number 1, 2 and 3. NEVER go exclusive with anyone. It is possible to get a book perma free on Amazon without going select and that it is to get it price-matched free by putting it free on other sites.

Not guaranteed but stands a good chance. If your ebook is ok, you could get about one review per hundred reads. Two or three would be better still. Get your book on smashwords. Be grateful if any reader gives you their time not just to read your book but comment on it. If the review is scathing but genuine, learn from it. A few sad reviewers love to dis a book just because they can. If you have a book you feel has been held back by a rubbish review, just un-publish it and then republish it. Reviews go away and it kicks off all over again.

But if it was crap before, it will still be crap. It is sometimes hard for us to accept that truth. Do you think that higher priced books in the lending library would increase lending? I tried it and saw an influx of lending over buying which pays me more than I was making per sale. I raised the price of a. The best way to get tons of traffic is Fiverr. There is one seller who will help you reach 4.

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Also, there is a seller who will post your book to pages on backpage. That worked for me as well. Hiya, I sold a hard copies of my book and people seem to love it. I put it up on Kindle ages ago and have NO sales! Its totally flat lined. As far as I can see its available. Its called the The Glass Trumpet. Any advise gratefully received! Hello, Your book seems fine to me. Have you tried lowering the price? I just mentioned in another post that the cover can make all the difference. The blurb on your book sounds interesting.

I had my daughter teach me the basics of Paintshop and I now purchase pictures from sites such as Shutterstock. To be honest it takes me hours upon hours to complete but I feel that the effort has been worth it. Hi, I ran a free campaign and it did boost sales slightly over the next few weeks. However, the game-changer for me was revamping my cover. Something, I should have initially done as a few bad reviews on grammar can impact sales. I released 3 ebooks a year ago and they did no good. I promoted it on Facebook and explorebooks. Sales are still going after the promotion ended.

I would say new authors should not expect miracles. Because it hurts when hopes are shattered. I read your article about Amazon KDP with great interest. After that it slumped back down to one or two sales a day or week sometimes. All told, I have eight books on Amazon at the moment, some doing well, others not so much.

After several months, I sat back and took another look at my book. The first thing I did was split the hundred-page book into two, Book One and Two. I found a much better book cover art on line, re-edited haha and reposted the books. One reviewer said that I failed high school English, but I wrote one hell of a story.

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