Kindle anyone?

Welcome home Eva...

With 2013, just around the corner...

Make sure you Share all your [New found Riches and Success stories] that I hear are just About to happen All around your part of the Geo local, world-wide internet and much, much more...

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Kindle in my opinion, is [Really] just another Publishing business model, Full of ideas, With never-ending {Opportunities} just Like with Everything else Out there...

No different...

Not much need to Buy every single Kindle related info Product, Ideas coming into the Marketplace...

Just not Necessary unless...

As someone Mentioned... Info products Sell especially well...

Because it's Not much different than...

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Definitely worth reading and Scanning through...
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...dle-books.html

Broke $1000 in one day for the first time yesterday from self-published books. $1001.50.
http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comm...he_first_time/

Kindle (secrets) untold secrets for free...
http://books.google.com/books/about/...8C&redir_esc=y
https://www.google.com/search?q=kind...1708 &bih=831
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Have an [Awesome] 2013... Enjoy! ...

And make All kinds of $$$'s, Kindling or whatever...

Phil

Thanks RgrPett and you to Phil. Gosh, who would think Kindle could bring in that kind of money. Will def follow through on all the links Phil,

Eva

Originally Posted by Eva

Gosh, who would think Kindle could bring in that kind of money.

That was my exact thought as well.

The volume of traffic at Amazon must be beyond imagination.

Book prices of .99 to 2.99 must seem like giveaways to customers, and result in a large volume of sales. I know I don't blink at buying a 2.99 book. I bought a 6.99 book today just to see what a best seller looks like on the inside. Kid book.

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Well, my conclusions so far is, if you want to make a stab at Kindle, or any publishing avenue for that matter, it has to be more than just a stab.

- Write about what you know, if that is a hot niche, the better, if not, you will make less
- Just putting it on Kindle and doing nothing else is not going to get you far
- A supporting website, blog, twitter, facebook and what else marketing technique gives you higher sales and maybe even a following if you write a series of books
- Easiest way to get reviews to boost sales confidence is to actually buy a few reviews from Fiverr, a book is not considered a "product" and therefor does not fall under the FTC's rules of disclosing that you paid for the reviews
- Including a free book at the end of your sold book with a link to an optin page to build your list is an excellent idea
- Title, description, tags, cover and reviews are extremely immportant
- Forget Public Domain and PLR, unless you spend a lot of time re-writing and adding to it.
- Non-fiction is the way to go
- Sending review copies to bloggers helps a lot
- Your earnings will grow slowly over time if you keep promoting and adding to it, less effort into marketing is needed as you grow since you now can promote to your own list

And then, there's more to it than that....

Eva

[RgrPett]

In 2010 Amazon sold more Kindle books than hardcover books. The following year Amazon sold more Kindle books than paperback and hardcover combined.

The single biggest advantage offered by having an e-book on the Amazon Kindle is that your Kindle e-books will never go out of print, so they will keep on selling forever. Printed books, on the other hand, have a very short life on bookstore shelves.

Reddit.com user "throwaway_writer" wrote about his first $1000 day as a Kindle author:
http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comm...he_first_time/

It didn’t happen overnight: his journey from $0 a day to $1000 a day took 8 months.

At the time the thread was written he had 80 titles for sale for the Kindle mostly as short stories, compilations of the short stories and novellas. That was in late 2011, his title count now is 200+.

His titles are in multiple genres including kids titles, non-fiction, science fiction and erotic romance.

He uses a different pen name for each genre.

He says sales come from 5 things: Cover, Description, Ranking, Title, Reference. Notice that he does not list "content".

He says Kindle book buyers make their buy/don't buy decisions in a manner of seconds. Therefore....

He believes a good cover, great blurb (short, to-the-point, keyword friendly description of your book that convinces the reader to buy, and a solid linking strategy is more important than great content.

He does ZERO promotion. No blog posts, no Facebook account, no Twitter account. Instead he lists each book in 2 categories and adds a clickable link to his first book in each succeeding book.

Now get this: the link is his own affiliate link. Thus he makes a small sales commission on top of the 70% "cut" Amazon pays him as the author. I LOVE the way this guy thinks!

[RgrPett]

Kindle authors include links to their other books, websites or blogs in their books. Usually they place these links at the back of the book where only buyers will see them ... but only AFTER they've bought the book.

Now, notice that Kindle books usually have the "Click to Look Inside" option. This gives the potential buyer a sneek peek at the beginning of the book.

Authors with marketing smarts put their links at the beginning of the book (between the title page and first chapter). Now everyone who clicks on "Click to Look Inside" ... whether or not they buy that book ... will be able to see other books written by that author.

Roger

Originally Posted by RgrPett

Kindle authors include links to their other books, websites or blogs in their books. Usually they place these links at the back of the book where only buyers will see them ... but only AFTER they've bought the book.

Now, notice that Kindle books usually have the "Click to Look Inside" option. This gives the potential buyer a sneek peek at the beginning of the book.

Authors with marketing smarts put their links at the beginning of the book (between the title page and first chapter). Now everyone who clicks on "Click to Look Inside" ... whether or not they buy that book ... will be able to see other books written by that author.

Roger

Hmm, that's an interesting concept I have not seen anywhere, thanks for the tip! If that is indeed allowed by Amazon, surprised to hear only a few are using it,

Eva

[RgrPett]

Eva,

I'm not sure how long authors have been doing this. I've only recently noticed it.

With Kindle books being so inexpensive, I usually don't click on the "Click here to look inside" button. If the book description sounds interesting I go straight to the "buy" button.

Roger

Originally Posted by Bozo

That was my exact thought as well.

The volume of traffic at Amazon must be beyond imagination.

Book prices of .99 to 2.99 must seem like giveaways to customers, and result in a large volume of sales. I know I don't blink at buying a 2.99 book. I bought a 6.99 book today just to see what a best seller looks like on the inside. Kid book.

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Amazon is an outstanding trustworthy website where daily billions of visitors arrived and getting amazing affordable deals for every kind of products. Amazon is doing great business for that and now, they launched them official Amazon Kindle tablet. So, it's very exciting for me to see this and now rumours are spreading that they are launching Kindle fire 2.

There is a post on my blog about Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif who shares her story of how she made over $42,000 in one month selling the Kindle books she wrote through the Amazon KDP Select program. In a recent update she says she made $200,000 in just over 9 months.

http://50alone.com/42000-in-1-month-...-kindle-ebooks

There is also a link in the post to download her Kindle book of exactly how she has done it. This is an Amazon promotion and these books are usually only free for 24-48 hrs. I just checked and this one is still free.

I would give you a review of it, but I didn't download it. I don't have the time to spend writing, and don't have the desire either.

Regards,
Steve MacLellan