Marketing and Selling Ebooks

Whether you have already dipped your toes into the epublishing waters or not, it is virtually impossible to sell books when you are an unknown author. If you plan on joining the rush towards publishing on Kindle in the near future, you need to be aware that it is not a get rich quick scheme, whatever some people will try to tell you.

I am a newbie to this Kindle publishing game, as you will probably know if you've read the previous post about Kindle. At the moment I have two books out there, one of which is selling at the rate of one or two a day, while the other has only had three sales in the same time period.

Amazon Kindle Select Free Days

When I put my first book The Creative Writing Workbook up I decided to offer it as a free download for five days, bad mistake, I had over 1400 downloads during that time..In retrospect I should have left the promo until the book had been up for at least two weeks, and used the free promotion for just a day or two. I then offered the second book, a collection of short stories, flash fiction and poetry for just two days. The second book got less than a hundred free downloads and I think that is because short story and poetry collections do not sell very well. 

If I had read Jeff Bennington's  book on the subject of publishing and marketing your book with Amazon I would have done things very differently. The kindle author community is a very supportive one with most people passing on tips they have found useful for getting known and selling more books. I will certainly follow his step by step process when the first Lambeth Croak novel, Death Comes Stalking is published, hopefully in the next week or two. For the time being I shall just carry on writing and getting my work out there. Do you have any tips or questions on marketing and selling Ebooks, if so then please leave a comment before you go.