Tuesday, June 19, 2012

poor returns

So far I've made my novelette THE ELECTROLIVE MURDERS available for free on 5 days, and a total of 576 free copies have been downloaded. Since the first free day, 11 copies have sold, and two new reviews have been posted. While I'm happy to think that more than 500 people thought my novelette looked interesting enough to download, I wish more of those downloads resulted in reviews.

How do you get the ball rolling with a kindle book? How do you pull lightning toward it, and make it catch fire? I'm still trying to find out.

The free downloads seem to be the most effective thing I've found so far, but they're still not especially effective. And trying to get bloggers to review the book has resulted in a lot of work with virtually no payback (of the 15 blogs contacted, only one blog wrote a review).

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