Last Tuesday I put my ten books up free and the downloaded about 1,000 times. I then put them up free for the Saturday and Sunday of the Easter weekend and they downloaded about 500 times. For ten books these are very small figures of course. Also, two of my novels downloaded about a third of the total for no good reason that I can see!
For the last five weeks my books have been set at over $3 and they've been bought at a rate of less than two a week. Previously, when they were at rock bottom they were being bought at about one a day.
If gettting reviews is what selling these ebooks is about, then it would make sense to put the books back to a far lower price and hope for more sales and more reviews. So far I've had one review from free downloads. I think a review I got otherwise for Bugtown is why folk are downloading it for free. Can't see any other reason.
I've decided then to cancel next weekend's free book promotion because of the laws of diminishing returns, and reduce the prices to about a pound or so that I get about fifty pence a book.
Later: The books in the states are now at $1.60 which makes them cost £1.01 in Britain. I'd really like to just forgot about these books for a while!! There's something out there called an indie publisher and I'm not it. Park the books, walk away, que sera sera!
No comments:
Post a Comment