Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Thinking of going exclusive to Amazon only

I've been thinking of going exclusive to Amazon only of late. The biggest reason why is that's where the vast majority of my sales are. Smashwords sells a few, itunes a couple, and Barnes and Noble only a few as well.
But if I go exclusive to Amazon I can get into some of the unlimited programs, which may help garner more sales. Which is the name of the game after all.

Thoughts?

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:43 PM

    From what I have read, I would say that Amazon's new programs for authors will help new authors get started and help readers find them. I have been reading for 40yrs and have thousands of books. I have recently quit buying anything but Kindle books. I read a ton and Amazon has helped me find authors. It is how I came to enjoy your books after all.

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  2. I have just read your 3 Portals of Infinity books and enjoyed them - they are light reading, lots of adventure, not a lot of agonizing and worrying, nice people, etc.

    I only buy Kindle books, so this comment applies to that environment.

    I read for escapism, I program for working (actually I enjoy it as much as reading).

    So why this comment???

    Thought you might want to know my criteria for buying a book:
    1. light reading - adventure, mystery, detective, western (not many of those - too predictable), sci-fi, etc.
    2. Almost never spend more than $2.99 for a book - and not that much if it is a fairly short book.
    - WHY? I read fast so I go thru a lot of books and money would become an issue
    - WHY? I pick books mostly at random, and won't do that if price is more than $3 - when I like what I read, I go looking for other books by the same author but still won't spend over $3 - in your case, I just went back to Amazon and bought the rest of your books that were not real short and which cost less than $3.00.

    Maybe that algorithm is common??? might consider it in your pricing!

    - there is an awful lot of competition out there

    By the way - I am very good with the English language, and the typo's and other errors in our Infinity series were rather irritating - but not bad enough to stop me from enjoying the stories - I do not know the economics of proofreading, but all my life I have been thinking I should be a proofreader because I find a lot more errors than other people seem to - I it makes sense, my I should try doing that for you books - have no idea about the expense/cost of doing that!

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  3. Hey - I found you because I share a lot of readers with you. I wrote the Fovean Chronicles. I went exclusively Amazon - I make a little more money than when I was spread out, actually, because I can take advantage of the KDP benefits.

    Would love to talk to you about how you network - you're better at it than I am

    Bob

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  4. Bob, ping me at vanstry@gmail.com if you want to chat. Always willing to help another author.

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