So, although you can't
count on a book promotion campaign to pay for itself through increased book sales, you can depend on the enhanced opportunities that book publicity campaigns provide.
Not exact matches
Also, to be fair, nearly all of my clients have received — and
count on receiving — benefits from their
book promotion campaign that transcend
book sales.
Privacy in exchange for
book promotion might be a fair exchange... but I wouldn't
count on social networking as the
book promotion solution for every author, publisher, and
book publicist.
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.
On the promo page there's a counter powered by Amazon Charts that shows a live
count of Kindle pages read from these nine translated
books during the
promotion period.
With so much opportunity for effective internet
promotions like virtual
book tours, there are fewer and fewer of the non-virtual, several - city variety
book tours being offered by publishers, so don't
count on getting
on that plane.
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.
This is bad for KDP authors who
counted on the free - price
promotion to get exposure for their
books.
In theory, and probably in practice, a verified purchase flag
on a review gives it a tad more weight, but at this time it is the sheer number of reviews that
counts the most in the Amazon algorithms used for their
book promotions.