kdp

I’ve lost a lot of confidence in the Amazon KDP Select.  On the surface it sounds good.  Every 90 days the author gets 5 days that he can offer his ebook for free.  It is intended as a promotional tool.  You give the ebooks away with the idea that a percentage of these recipients will either give you a review, and/or if they like the book, spread the word.  Unfortunately, I’m not getting these results.

It could be that my books are just not that good.  If this is the case I wish someone would let me know so I could try to fix it or move on to something else.

I think part of the problem is that this program is no longer new.  The market is saturated with up and coming self-published authors with free books out there.  And then there are readers whose sole intent is to get a free book.  That, in itself, doesn’t bother me.  What bothers me is that some of these same people have about a thousand or more books in their reader and may not get to mine until I have my own flying car.

If my books were already selling briskly then this might be a great tool to move my sells up another notch.  My sells are more of a stop and go.  Things start to move and I think ‘alright here we go.’  Then they stop.

I think another part of the problem is that some of these self-published authors are damn good.  That makes me mad.  Come on now give me a break.  Let me in there somewhere.

Another problem is I don’t go to Cheers where everybody knows my name.  Maybe if I changed my name to Elvis Presley people would buy my book just for the name.  Steven King would just be too obvious.

I’ve lost confidence, but I haven’t given up.  Not completely.  For now I’ll keep searching for a way to effectively use this Amazon tool.  I don’t see too many options.