I got a lot of exposure and sales following Kindle Select free days over Memorial Day. Book 2 is going up next weekend. I am thinking I will try Select again this time. If only I could rely on my Magic Eight Ball!
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I made actual money in May and June. Still pinching myself.
My free trial rank right now is 2,100 for my first book after coming out 12 hours ago. But for the life of me, where do you go to see how many books have been downloaded? Is it in the Bookshelf somewhere, or some other place?
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I have a tentative plan. I have enrolled two novellas on KDP Select and am doing one day book promotions on each alternately. That means almost once a week one of the two is free for a day, hopefully drawing attention to the other at the same time. So even if it is 2-3 sales a week maximum it might haul me out of the 100,000s+ on Amazon's sale rankings. Then I plan to publish the third in the series towards the end of the current enroll period, doing 1 day free every third week or so. I have absolutely no idea if this will work or not, but I am definitely NOT going to enroll the two on there now a second time, as I have no way of distributing through other platforms. And not everyone has a kindle, i-phone or i-pad. I'm viewing the next 90 days as a learning curve.
Which means I might change my mind!
One thing I noticed researching the sales ranking is that one excellent week of sales (say during a 5 day free promotion) might get wiped out by the averaging across several weeks of sales, hence trying to spread the promotions over more weeks.
Now if anyone knows why I shouldn't do this, please let me know!
Also I'm doing my free promotions at the weekends, only because I think people have more free time at the weekends to browse the lists.
Hang in there, Chris. It takes time. Are you writing a new book?