[Kindle] Help with book sales

Hay Max -

I ordered the same product through Tanner Larsson & Tim Castleman's sales page. However, I have gotten ZERO response after multiple emails to them on how to download their bonus.

Did you get the bonus? Are these guys ligit or just scamming us?

Gene

Hmmm..... I have quite a lot of "units borrowed" in December when the KDP program came on. They are all non-fiction books. I didn't do any promotion in the beginning because I wanted to see which way to go was better.

Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw people borrowing my books that I was only selling for $1.17. (I think people can only borrow a book a month, is that right?) If I were to use a 'borrow' feature, I would probably want to borrow a book that is worth over $9, wouldn't you? That was my thinking.

So I was totally shocked when I saw the result of December last week: I had 24 people borrowing this book resulting $40.75 payment.

So in first week of January, I gave this book a promotion. The result of this same book as of now is: 19 people bought and 9 people borrowed. So after the promotion, not so many people borrowed.

Another interesting thing: I have a similar book like this one here and in December, 14 got sold and 12 got borrowed. For Royalty, the 14 that got sold for $1.17, I received $5.74, whereas the 12 that got borrowed, I got $20.37. (Not as good as the first one.)

Then in early January, I put this one on a promotion. And so far i n January, the result of this book is better than the first one. 14 got sold and 19 got borrowed. So the promotion works better for this book. I don't understand why that is.

These 2 books are similar and are in a series. These books are not hot selling niche but people do buy (probably cuz it's only $1.17) and borrow them (which I don't understand why they borrow a $1.17 book). Maybe if someone knows why, that can give me some enlightenment.


For one of my niche, yes I put a link at the end for people to sign in. Actually the sign in page takes them to download videos because they are part of the content for the kindle book they bought, and you would think people who buy them would sign in to download those videos. I had 200+ people buying the book and only 3 people signed in. I don't understand why people don't sign in to get their videos as that is what they paid for. This is very strange to me. Maybe Kindle buyers do things differently from IM people.

In the beginning, I had no links at the end of my books because I didn't know if Amazon would allow this. Later I discovered that they allow you to put links. So what I do is that I have to monetize my books (not a set and forget system like many people say) by going back to re-upload the books and then put the links at the end. When you first upload, you don't have the links to your books yet but after you get accepted by Amazon, you can get your url link. So I now leave a link for people to go back to leave comments. And then I also say, if they had found the book helpful, they can view my other kindle books (so I put a list of links there). Once I added those links at the end, I seem to have more and more people borrowing my books.

In January, the borrow units just shot up so much. It's like a 'number' game to me now and it is very difficult for me to keep track. Like I have 47, 30, 26, 25, 22, 19, 16, 13, etc.

I am thinking of buying the Kindling Membership that people are talking about in the Warrior forum. This one is $37 and seems reasonable and this guy is offering life time membership I think. Maybe if they have a group membership in there, they might discuss these things more closely which I think is a great idea because we can learn from one another's experiences. I want to get the other one that someone mentioned here about Jonny's but $50 is a lot to pay for one time fee. Also Jay just put out a very reasonable WSO on Kindle this week but I think you need to be in the States to get the full benefit. I bought his kindle thing last year and that's how I got started but kindle has changed in the last few months.

Rosa