Tristan, I saved this post to make sure i get to read it sometimes later which i am here now. I am considering publishing on amazon kindle now that i have set things up BUT i am concerned by the% when the ebook is more than the $9.99 price tag. I guess this is not a good thing from amazon. I plan to create what could become a membership ste (if i add some stuffs and videos to it) and i want the price to be somewhat higher than the $9.99 price. Something like $47 but the royalty is kinda low to me. (In reply to the post below from Sheyi) Hi Sheyi, Good to hear you’re moving ahead with your writing. The ‘official’ angle from Amazon, I think, is that they used what’s called “Consumer-based pricing” – in other words, making the prices as low as possible to benefit consumers (readers). As such, I wouldn’t really recommend it for a membership site. Besides, I don’t think there’s a way to host a membership site on Amazon, is it’s more of a one-time-download system. What you *could* do though, would be to provide a free or low-priced book on the Amazon Kindle store, which gives people good information and *then* points them to your membership site. “Get the eBook version for $4.99. You’re about to publish your ebook on Kindle. You should promote your ebook with a press release. I’ve been reading up on Kindle Ebook marketing. By the way, did you know I have an awesome membership site full of videos and other cool stuff? Go to to join us”. Agree: the royalty of only 30% of products above $9.99 is a bit low. Better to sell 100 copies at $9.98 than 5 copies at $20, though =) Good luck and I hope it goes well! My first attempt at the Amazon KDP was a couple of days ago. Yesterday was the first promotion I ran (mine was a weekday). I hit the same results on the downloads that you did. The high numbers sent me through the roof. In addition, I found out that it was being offered on the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain sites as well (Got some downloads from there too.) I ended the promotion with about 18 reviews which were all good. I came up as number two in a couple of Amazon’s categories. Will follow up when I get more data on actual sales. Your post is right on target though as I (indirectly) definitely replicated it. Hey Michael, That’s fantastic – I’m really glad to hear you gave it a shot and that your numbers exploded. It’s exciting to see downloads coming from other countries too ? Let me know if you have any other questions (although it looks like you’ve mastered it already) and would love to hear your data once you have some more sales through. Getting 19 reviews is huge, and I can see they’re all really positive. Do you have any good tips for getting readers to write reviews? Cheers, Tristan. I tried this as well. One of my books got as high as number two in the Mens Adventure Category Free. It is a great program. I have been on Kindle since 2009, I find it the best platform to be on. I am in the second time around now, sales are good but not as high as last time. I have seen an increase in my sales after the free promotion as well, I only charge.99 cents a book being that I am an underground writer but it sure is fun to see sales and addicting I must add. Great advice for any writer. Tristan, Thanks for a really interesting and helpful article. “Will this work for everyone? I’m not sure yet. Your mileage may vary, and everyone’s book will be different. ” While I’m genuinely pleased you’ve been able to tell us your success story I do feel it is also important, in the interest of balance, to provide an alternative and, perhaps cautionary, experience. In late April I published my book on Kindle – it was a collection of regular articles I’d written for a UK trade publication over a number of years.
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