In June so far, and it's the 12th today, I have sold two books out of the ten on Kindle. I'm pleased to say that one of them was In The Land Of The Demon Masters, so no one has bought that for months and I know it's a really good book for twelve year olds. It's still at the lowest price I could upload it at because twelve year olds sometimes don't have a lot of money!
I've managed to avoid looking at the reports section of my account for six days, which is a kind of record since there was a kind of compulsion developing to have a look whenever I logged onto to the internet. When I put up the prices to $2.99, I wasn't expecting to sell many copies, and I don't think my books will sell many copies in future.
I was speaking to someone with a reading device at the weekend and she told me she'd never bought a book for it since she could get everything she wanted to read for free. I wouldn't buy ebooks if I had a Kindle either. Since they brought out this five day free promotions thing around Christmas, why buy books?
I'm trying to give up on doing any marketing for my books since I don't think it makes much difference to how much money I'd make. But I really haven't been doing any marketing! I sometimes have a look at Meet Our Authors fora, but that's about it.
It's been very interesting doing this Kindle stuff though and I'm very pleased that my books are somewhere where someone can read them if they want to.
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