Sales Bump from KDP Kindle Giveaway -- WEEK 1
The grand experiment continues. How does a self published writer break through to a national audience, to the Million Kindle Club, to the NY Times best seller list? A growing number of indy writers have done it. There is no one secret way that worked for all of them. It is a combination often of luck, talent and marketing mojo. Some have broken through by advertising on big sites like Kindle Nation, some have struck gold using the KDP Free Book Giveaway, some are brilliant at networking on countless blogs, some have been blessed by the all-powerful Amazon goddess who gives them special placement on the Amazon site. Today I'm going to share a little success I've experienced using the KDP Free Book Giveaway. KDP stands for Kindle Direct Publishing and it's the way we set pricing etc for our kindle books. Initially I priced the kindle of my novel PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL at $6.95. Sales were decent but not great. I sold maybe 5 books a month, netting me about $25 in r