Not exact matches
my friend t and i (who both live in the neighbourhood) will be
at this evening's SF book signing and potluck with our
amazon pre-order
copies in hand.
Pricing
at $ 4.99 (and remember,
Amazon decides the price, not you)
AMAZON will make $ 3.25 a sale so will need to sell only 462
copies to make back the advance it paid out.
Go big — content 50 self - publishing authors in your genre who are doing decent (in the top 50K or so on
Amazon) and ask if they want to do a group sale, everyone prices
at 99cents for one day, and everyone promotes the discount... link to one page (probably on your site, or a bigger blog) listing all 50 authors (or every author can
copy / paste your post on their own page, listing the 50 authors, links to the
amazon page, and links to their blog posts.
Anybody who wanders into Sam's Club and picks up a hardbound book in their large book section, grabs a romance title
at a supermarket, or even people buying and selling real, physical used
copies of books on
amazon itself is not counted in this.
Often people don't actually have your work, even when they sell your book on ebay, they are just taking the details from
amazon and making a product listing
at a higher price, so IF it sells, they'll buy your book and order a
copy... so it's actually free marketing for you.
UPDATE: Now it is 50 % off
at AMAZON only for a limited time so if you missed the Barnes & Noble deal, hurry and preorder your discounted
copy at Amazon << click there for the deal and it will be shipped to you when it releases!