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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    Yeah, and I should have listened to you. I saw the top sellers were 25-30 page short reads, so I just released a similar series. I didn't sacrifice on quality, but on pages (this time around). We have to adapt to what Amazon is doing if we want to do this for our main source of income. I am...
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    Charnell's eBook Progress Thread [Here we go, it's getting serious!]

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    KennyJA said: ↑ These last few days have been dead (all non-fiction) and I'm real surprised you're doing well with non-fiction. One guy practically said non-fic isn't good business as a publisher/author on here and made it big with fiction only. Steve Scott does very well with nonfiction...
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    Made barely anything from erotica, any advice?

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    @karmazon These books need some reviews, not only for your feedback, but to get the ball rolling for sales. How do you know if anyone even likes the book with no reviews? They could love it and not be able to find it. Here is a good article on the power of reviews, from a book treading water...
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    Looks like that is the case. If it takes six months to reach 10% in small increments, it will be paid in that time. https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=AI3QMVN4FMTXJ
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    The agreement states. "Only the first time a customer reads a book past 10% will be counted." So if someone starts the book and does not get to the 10% the first time, it won't count? That is how it seems to read. The first time in one sitting. Or is Amazon making the point that if a readers...
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    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

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    Absolutely! On a slow Sunday morning it looks like the books will break 500 combined rather easily for the month to date. This has really been a lesson on marketing for me, as in covers, blurbs, and a few social media strategies. Lots of writers hate that stuff, but someone has to do it. I...
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    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

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    Aubrey is being way to modest here. She actually took a series languishing with a ranking in the 400,000+ selling little more than 15 books, and brought the series to selling over 200 within a week of the re-release. At the time of this post, two books were re-released, and for May they have...
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    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

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    I don't think any part of the series is overkill because it is so vital to get every piece right! The scariest part for me is spending all the time writing the story, and them messing something up like the cover, the title, the blurb, etc. Bestselling authors like Aubrey know how to sell. It...
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    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    This is like nuggets of gold given to this forum. A NY Times bestselling author teaching us newbies how to write a romance novel through this forum and her websites above. This is truly an amazing and generous use of your time, Aubrey, and all I can say is THANK YOU! My book improved...
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    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

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    Congratulations Aubrey Rose! To get rankings like that, do you do any kind of promotions for your books, or do you just release them? If promotions, what kind? Thanks - WC
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    Developing a Kick a$$ Cover

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    If you see a cover that you really like for your genre the author or publisher will often give credit for the cover producer. Many of the top selling authors do this. H.M. Ward is a professional photographer and she does her own, but others artists or cover designers are often credited at the...
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    At the very beginning...

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    The only time $0.99 pricing made a substantial difference when I tested it was when I used the Kindle countdown deal, where it showed a time limit for the $0.99 price with the clock showing how much time was left. But you have to be enrolled in Kindle Select to use that option. Otherwise, I...
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    LLEONE's Self-Publishing Fiction/Non-fiction Ebook Journey

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    Thanks Lleone - good info. Does anyone know why some categories that rank lower don't have as many sales as other categories that rank higher? For example, History has a lower sales ranking than all the others but the sales volume does not come close to the other top categories. Also, Romance...
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    OK, I'm in! Let's Self Publish.

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    It is interesting to read about the fiction and nonfiction back and forth. I published nonfiction but the author in under a pen name, and it is in a field of expertise for which I am not a recognized expert. But I have studied the stuff for years, and the subject fascinated me so I wrote the...
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    Kindle Analytics/Book Page Tracking

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    There seems to be a few books out there regarding this topic, but this one looks pretty darn good: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPQ6YYI/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    I-Tunes Connect also makes you fill out a bunch of legal documents that post your actual name as the "seller" of the book even if you use a pen name. So unless you have a company name or legal DBA with legal docs that you must upload, you actually show your real name with the pen name if you are...
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    I'm finally joining the crowd!

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    I saw two book on Kindle (not print) with no illustrations, same genre, and same approx. word count. But one says over 240 pages "based on real page numbers." When I clicked the bubble next to pages it states "based on the print edition." The other book shows 79 pages "estimated." So it is the...
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    [PROGRESS THREAD]: Six-figure Fiction

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    Thrifty - You are doing what most people will never even start, so of course it is going to be enormously challenging. But it is also going to be enormously rewarding. It's a daily battle. Keep slaying the beast of doubt every day and you will get there. WC
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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

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    Congratulations ChickenHawk and COSenior, I have noticed HfR did not see really big success until book twenty, and ChickenHawk around book seven. But is this because book number twenty or book number seven was head and shoulders so much better (in your opinion), or is there something in Amazon's...
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    E-Books aren't Fastlane. You should quit...

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    Hello Mik, Speaking from my own experience it took me two years to research and write a non-fiction book that had meager sales, and it took me four weeks to write a fiction story that outsold it. The sales for either were not that great, but four weeks was not much time. I was browsing some of...

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