What Can Kindle Unlimited Do for Authors? If you’re in KDP Select, you’re already signed up for the new Kindle Unlimited, in which case, you may already be seeing a lot more downloads in your KU/KOLL column. I know I am! Yes, this is Amazon scooping Oyster and Scribd and any other subscription site, but it’s also giving authors another incentive to stay with Amazon. It also makes me think that Amazon may have finally found a way around the “free” ebook giveaways. I don’t have a crystal ball on this, but look at how this deal vastly improves your options. For Readers: A subscription deal @ $10.00 a month and they can download as many books as are listed in the program. Hundreds of thousands of books! For Authors: get paid the FULL royalty for each of the books that a subscriber picks up. How cool is that? What does that mean to you? It means that readers can chose the retail price and the Kindle Unlimited price. Gee, lemme think. FREE or full retail? I’m already tweeting this for my books adding #KindleU or #KindleUnlimited with #FREE on it. Here’s a sample: #asmsg #mystery, #FREE ON #KINDLEUNLIMITED 20yr old secrets threaten this flying family in A DEAD RED CADILLAC, amzn.to/x5qSDD So how does this change your strategy for marketing? Marketing your books is STILL going to be important, but now we have an option to NOT do FREE giveaway books on Amazon. Note: Giveaways can be done on Blog hops, Library Thing, GoodReads, etc. And that’s what I’ll be doing more of!Your email: Starting August 1, 2014, the author form at DIRT CHEAP MYSTERY READS will look a bit different: 1) I will still accept Kindle FREE, and Kindle countdown, and regular priced books up to $2.99. 2) I will now accept retail prices OVER $2.99 ($3.99-$5.99) as long as your book is in Kindle Unlimited. *there will be a box for this, and “FREE on Kindle Unlimited ” will now be part of the promotion **Talk about an incentive to readers! Buy the book for $5.99 or get it for free anytime. Yes, there are naysayers for this new program, but not from this author/promoter! I’m going to be advertising my books now more than ever, and I don’t have to advertise them at FREE or even 99cents! Advertise your book with Dirt Cheap Mystery Reads. I can accept your book once a month. Boxed sets, multiple author boxed sets, short stories, Y/A, children’s books–as long as it’s mystery/suspense/thrillers–my readers what to hear about it. Author information page: allmysteryenewsletter/?page_id=8004 This blog post can be found at goo.gl/SK3u19
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:16:52 +0000
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