Book one of the Portals of Infinity series (Champion for Hire) will go on sale tomorrow, at 99 cents for two days (Thursday and Friday) then $1.99 for two more (Sat & Sun).
So, if you're interested, but weren't sure, now you can check it out for just 99 cents!
http://amzn.to/1GLHGU4
I don't understand why you don't just make the first one free to draw people into the next books. You could then post it on all the free fiction websites at once and draw a lot of attention to the series. With 5 books out, getting them to buy the latter four would give you way more money.
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each of these sites have a large following of readers. Typically the best way to become popular on one of these sites is to release a lot of chapters very fast. Releasing a whole novel at once would certainly do a lot of good.
Because permafree doesn't work in my experience. Yes, lots of people download free books.
ReplyDeleteFew however, actually read them.
Fewer still go on to buy the next one.
I used to do freebies, and four years ago, you could get a few sales out of it. These days? No, you won't get very many sales at all in SF&F. Romance may be different, but people see a free book and they figure it's free because it sucks.
It's the same thing with 99 cents. People will look at a book that's on sale for 99 cents, especially if it has a lot of reviews, but books that are normally priced 99 cents? A lot of people look at them and figure they can't be good, or they wouldn't be 99 cents.
But the biggest part about the people who read free books, is that they only read free books. They aren't going to buy the next book, when there are so many free ones out there. Oh I know there are people who go on about how much their sales have increased, but usually they're talking about going from a couple a week, to five or six a week. As a sales strategy I have yet to see any proof that it will actually bring in sales, and my own personal experience is that it doesn't.
I once gave away enough free copies of a book to be the number three author in Germany on Amazon, and in the top ten in all of the UK on Amazon. I didn't make a single sale in either of those countries however, despite giving away thousands of copies. It just doesn't work.