Are You Having Success With Amazon Kindle?

Quick, high quality, and cheap ebook simply does not exist.

You have to work and market yourself to succeed on Kindle - it is a tough market, there are millions of books from hundreds of thousands of self-published authors. You need to get noticed which is a big task.

I'm doing very well with Kindle. December sales were double those in November. I have already passed December's sales this month.

It's easy if you are a writer. It's much harder to succeed if you are a marketer.

Kenj

Sounds good Amanda. Are the majority of your books non fiction such as How To's and about how long are they?

Are you making most of your income from the sale of your books or from driving traffic to websites with affiliate programs?

That's right Paul, what's the marketing method are you using to make it happen?

Ok Amanda, what's the secret :-)

All this talks about Kindle is very interesting. Someone mentioned about doing the eCovers first - you know, that was exactly what I did when I began. Anyways, it's because I am an expertise on a niche that is not a very popular money making niche so I use kindle to drive traffic to my site.

For starters, it is very time consuming to spend time to promote your kindle books, but I suppose those work. I am actually using the reverse principle to get Amazon to go to my sites.

For people who want to get into kindle, this is the best time to get in kindle because of the KDP select program that was put out in December. My sales just shot up. What was so 'ironic' was that I was selling a book for $1.17 and I had 19 sales and 24 people borrowing. The 24 people who borrowed in December got me $40.75 Royalty whereas the 19 people who bought got me only $7.79. This is 'reverse engineer'.

So what I did for January was that I changed all the $1.17 to $3.17 so that I can get 70% Royalty and hopefully to drive people to 'borrow' rather than buy.

But what I could not figure out was why would people want to 'borrow' a book that is only worth $1.17. I am still investigating into this reason why.

Another thing is that with the KDP select program, they allow you to have 5 promotions for your book. Because I have about 200+ books, so I could test drive them to see how to get more sales. In the past, it was very difficult to get your books seen but this new program shoots you up with 1 or 2 promotions. Not only do I get a few sales on these books but I also get so many units borrowed, like 53, 37, 36, 33....etc. It's becoming a number game for me now. You need to sit down to figure out your units but they just increase.

My December and January sales reports far exceeded all my combined months last year. I don't know when Amazon is going to change but now the KDP select program is free, so I would suggest people to use it now and get your books up quickly.

It's better to do HIGH QUALITY books because you want people to keep buying and do what they are already reading. And the thing is that what they are already reading, they keep buying. You would think they would stop buying on the same topic. They don't seem to have enough. Maybe it is just like IM and this warrior forum. LOL!!!

Rosa