Marketing E-books
Nobody was more surprised than I was to learn that my mystery, Big Lake, had risen to number 23 in the Paid Kindle store, number 4 in Bestsellers in Mysteries & Thrillers, and even more amazing, it was listed at number 76 on the New York Times Kindle Bestseller List! The book has been in [...]
This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]
I uploaded my mystery Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle program on Sunday, May 22, and by noon May 25th I had sold 100 copies. By the end of the month, sales topped out at 169, or an average of almost 17 books a day. Within a couple of days of uploading Big Lake, I uploaded [...]