It’s one day into the first
promotional giveaway of my book, The Bones of the Earth, and I’m
thrilled with the results. The numbers may not seem huge to some
people, but for me, they’re great.
As I mentioned in the post last week,
I’m participating in Independent Authors International’s first
multi-author, multi-book giveaway through Amazon. Throughout this
Labour Day long weekend, seven of us have used our Amazon Kindle
Select program free days to give away copies of our e-books.
In total, there have been over 700
downloads of my book in the first 34 hours of the multi-author
giveaway event. As I’m writing this, The Bones of the Earth is
ranked the number two historical fantasy in Amazon’s Free lists,
and number 1 in Amazon UK’s lists!
Strangely, traffic on my blog is not
much heavier than normal. Other participants and friends like Cinta
Garcia (who guest posted here a few months back) have noticed heavier
blog traffic.
So, great results? Compared to my
book’s sales since the beginning of the year, this is great!
Compared to the big sellers, fair to middling.
Reasons? Perhaps the last long weekend
of the summer was not a great choice: there are a lot of other things
for people to do, like go to the beach one last time, or get the kids
ready for school. Or maybe there are a lot of other giveaways to
compete with.
Those are the results so far. I promise
to publish further updates for anyone who is thinking of trying this
strategy.
It's great that you've had so many downloads. But don't forget, most of those who did are simply putting them at the end of their to-read list, so don't expect too many results overnight. Over the next few weeks people will begin to read your novel and then you blog traffic will hopefully soar.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm staying positive — the numbers of downloads are enough to make me happy!
Delete700 downloads and ranked #2 sounds pretty good! Keep up the hard work. :)
ReplyDeleteEven if the timing doesn't turn out to be the best, I'm a firm believer that group promotion events like this are far more effective than solo efforts. Congrats on the downloads and the rankings, and I hope the rest of the promotion went well too.
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