This is a known problem for writers and usually, these are posted shortly after a Kindle
Select free book promotion.
This means, if you have pre-scheduled KDP
Select Free book promotion set (as shown in the above image), then you can not create a Kindle Countdown Deal promotion.
Not exact matches
They can also choose to enroll their
books in KDP
Select for additional royalty opportunities like Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, and access to marketing tools like Kindle Countdown Deals and
Free Book Promotions.
This last month I offered my new
book, Successful eBook Publishing, as a
free give - away during a 3 - day
free promotion using Amazon KDP
Select.
With Kindle
Select, this is a bit different, what most new writers will rely upon is the five day
free book promotion to get some sales.
This is especially common among authors who run
free book promotions or offer their titles for
free or reduced prices as part of the KDP
Select benefits.
Amazon's new KDP
Select program allows self - publishers to run
free -
book promotions.
There was a query this week from a member of my Linkedin Group Marketing on Amazon asking how to get his
book reviewed before he starts using his KDP
Select free promotion days.
Should sign up for Kindle Direct Publishing's Kindle
Select Program and use the
free book promotion feature?
Simply enroll your
book in a
free promo with Amazon's KDP
Select feature and then promote your freebie across all marketing channels, including
book promotion sites like ReadingDeals and BookBub.
For example, if you're doing a KDP
Select Free promotion, there's a huge list of Twitter influencers who will retweet and promote your free book to their followers on my blog h
Free promotion, there's a huge list of Twitter influencers who will retweet and promote your
free book to their followers on my blog h
free book to their followers on my blog here.
Previously,
books obtained via the KDP
Select «
free book promotion», counted as a sale.
[Correction — to be clear, today's 100M number includes paid sales, borrows from the library and
free downloads of
books made through KDP
Select promotions.
Outlook: The next thing planned is the launch of
Book # 4 («Der Eden - Exodus «-RRB- in the beginning of December (which is already on pre-order) as well as a five day KDP
Select free promotion of
Book # 2, for which I am in the process of searching for promo sites.
If you do decide to launch your
book with a KDP
Select free promotion, check out my suggestions and lists of places to submit to here.
These sites are specific to
books that go
free on Kindle
Select and are often
free to use for
promotion.
-- KDP
Select books have been purchased, borrowed from the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, or downloaded for
free through KDP
Select promotions over 200 million times.
Granted, you can always do a
free promotion while wide across all retailers, but it's a bit of a hassle, and will involve your
book being
free for much longer than the 1 - 5 day window that KDP
Select allows.
This fall I decided that I would experiment by putting two of my
books back into KDP
Select (
books three and four of the series) and shifting back to doing
free rather than 99 cent Kindle countdown
promotions of those
books.
I subsequently put
books one and two (Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits) back into KDP
Select as well and I am having a
free BookBub
promotion of Uneasy Spirits January 20 - 22 that I hope will have a similar impact on my sales.
KDP
Select offers authors the opportunity to participate in promotional programs such as Kindle Countdown Deals,
Free Book Promotions, Kindle Unlimited, and Kindle Online Lending Library.
But to get rolling with a first
book, most self - publishing writers would benefit by going into Kindle
Select and using the five
free promotion days.
A couple years ago, when
free downloads of
books counted toward the paid ranking on Amazon when a title reverted to paid, running a KDP
Select free promotion for a handful of days was a useful way to gain visibility.
Now, what's worth noting is this: 707 copies of the
book were also downloaded on Kindle in 5 days during a
free promotion I did through the KDP
Select program, which was fantastic for exposure but obviously did not yield any royalties.
I think I'll give up the fight to have a
book at permafree for now and
select certain books — definitely not all of them — for KDP Select and run free promotions tha
select certain
books — definitely not all of them — for KDP
Select and run free promotions tha
Select and run
free promotions that way.
There are several ebook
promotion sites that will market your
Select book as «
free on KU» to their subscribers.
KDP
Select does not allow you to do this — you can only discount your
book to $ 0.00 during the 5
free promotion days.
KDP
Select books are eligible for a
free promotion for 5 days in a 90 - day enrollment period.
At the moment, we publish exclusively with Amazon, and all of our
books are enrolled in KDP
Select, so I make the most of their
Free Book and Kindle Countdown Deal
promotions.
Your choices are permanently
free (so don't go in KDP
select, put your books up elsewhere for free and get Amazon to price match) or use short - term free promotions (you need to be in KDP Select for
select, put your
books up elsewhere for
free and get Amazon to price match) or use short - term
free promotions (you need to be in KDP
Select for
Select for this).
I really do believe that the tools for
promotion that KDP
Select gave us — and that I used enthusiastically — had a lot to do with my past success — particularly as an author who writes slowly (
books come out about every 2 years) and didn't have enough
books in my series to go the perma
free route).
But I think authors starting bailing from
Select when the algorithms changed so that
free promotions didn't get your
book much of a bump on the paid sales charts anymore.
Our main reason for doing this
free KDP
Select promotion was to see if we could boost the sales and ranking of my
book.
Before, if an indie author had a three or five - day freebie
book promotion running through KDP
Select, that author could count on a nice sales bump for several days immediately after its
free book promotion ended.
If you're in KDP
Select, you won't be able to use this trick — instead, you can use their «
free promotion» feature to set your
book free for 5 days every 90 days.
By getting enrolled in Amazon's «KDP
Select,» you are enabled to enjoy higher royalties, and by choosing «Kindle Countdown Deals» or «
Free Book Promotion,» which are two major tools offered by Amazon for your book promotion, you get a maximized sales potential for your bo
Book Promotion,» which are two major tools offered by Amazon for your
book promotion, you get a maximized sales potential for your bo
book promotion, you get a maximized sales potential for your
books.
Since most of those sales resulted from paid
promotions I ran, I likely lost more «sales» than I would have made had I been in the KDP
Select program, since any KU members that were on the promotional email lists would have been more likely to download my
books (since they could do so for
free), even though the
books were already discounted to $ 0.99.
This was different than my
free promotion days, when your
book is enrolled in Kindle
Select Prime members can get
free downloads of it, where you as the author make a royalty.
Even a 5 day
free book promotion on KDP
Select.
For Kindle publishers you can also join KDP
Select which has three self - service promotional options, two
free book promotions and an advertising program.
With Kindle Unlimited being so new, I do not have the data to back this up, but what I can tell you is that by enrolling my
books in the Kindle
Select Program and utilizing the
free promotion facility, it has generated a lot of traffic to my websites.
Ben Zackheim presents Prepare your
book for its KDP
Select free promotion days posted at Ben Zackheim, saying, «A step - by - step guide, with best practices!
Recently, my wife, Gina Lake, and I did Bookbub
promotions of
free ebooks (one was permafree and the other was
free under a
Select promotion) and in both cases our
books had over 30,000 downloads in a short amount of time.
The «Get a
Free Kindle
Book»
promotion applies to
selected Kindle
books and runs from 00:00 GMT on 24 November 2015 to 23:59 GMT on 26 February 2016 (the «Promotional Period»).
You can still request a
free promotion below that could be included on our front page and newsletter if your
book is
selected.
Even if you don't do perma -
free you can do regular
free promotions if you're enrolled in KDP
Select, and use those 5 days every 90 days when your
book is
free to really promote it.
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