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Anyone know if there's a way to download a copy of your book out of KDP? I've Googled, had a quick look throughout all the options but still drawing a blank. It'll probably be right in front of me, I just keep missing it. Big thanks for all the hard work in this thread too by the way - it's been a huge help in getting things off the ground and finally being able to publish something. Now onto the next one! 
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divabot posted:fwiw, i was horribly blocked on my next book and then I did a mind map and an outline and now it's CRANKING AHEAD There's a site called Storyorigin where they recently added a daily word count feature where you plug in your wanted word count and target date and it'll give you a word target per day (which changes the more or less you write each day of course.) It's free to sign up and comes with a graph which helped me knock off my latest book in a month and a half - seeing how far/close you are to your target is a big motivator for me.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:50
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If you're running Amazon ads for your books, you can finally see it any of your ads clicked have earned you any KENDP. One 30 cent ad gave me a full book read last night - new mansion here I come!* *Not that I have an old mansion currently but you get the point..
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Jul 22, 2020 22:06
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Gologle posted:Thanks for the fast response. That's a very good idea about the short story incentive to joining the newsletter, I think once I get more established I will go that route. What should I be using to get a newsletter together? I know nothing about them at the moment. I never planned to write a short story this year until I read about another author having great success in building their mailing list and thought 'well I really don't have anything to lose here do I? (Because my list was zero at the time)'. So my process was: 1. I wrote a 17k novella, set just before my series kicked off. Took me a week and a half and it was a nice distraction from working on the third of my series. At the end of it, I included a link to the first in the series. 2. I put it up in Amazon KDP but didn't enroll it in Select so I could still be able to host it/give it away somewhere else. I set it at 99 cents and still managed two buys so far. 3. I signed up to StoryOrigin (it's free and incredibly helpful for new writers) and set it as a reader magnet. People could now come along and download it for a read, once they signed up to my mailing list (set up through MailChimp) 4. StoryOrigin has tonnes of free promos you can be a part of, including ones solely for building your list. Through a couple of these promos over the last month, a new name appears on my mailing list every couple of days. I'm at 40 and counting which is a great start. So if you have the time, write a short purely to build your list. And if you make any coin from it, so much the better.
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Sep 18, 2020 02:54
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Leng posted:Especially because apparently Amazon hates Australia How recently did this kick in? I'm also here in Aus and had author copies come in last month. (Also FedEx is beyond loving useless for delivery, I had to go hunting for my first batch of author copies. I had put on the wrong address (previous address) and after a bit of tracking I found them at a newsagency where they dropped the package off after bouncing a couple of times and left it there, washing their hands of it.) Edit: just ordered another 3 to my address in nsw without a problem so you may be in luck! Camo Guitar fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Apr 3, 2021 07:19
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so that sucks for me.
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Same, just author copies and then I fix any obviously incorrect things from there.
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Apr 7, 2021 04:52
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Leng posted:
I've sold one physical copy in two months since I finally got round to putting the option up. The rest have been downloads or kdp so as long as they're all correct then I'm good.
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Apr 7, 2021 21:06
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Leng posted:That was me as well. I still check daily for the occasional suprise, hoping for things like 'someone bought all three books in one hit and the short!' (rare) to 'Someone is reading it via that process (I forget which one) which Amazon counts as a one page read. Yay, a cent...' (common) Check emails, check bookreport, not a millionaire yet, back to the grind then..
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Jul 5, 2021 23:50
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I'm been wondering how to spruce up my rough looking $30 Gumtree writing desk for a while and then it finally dawned on me. A couple of minutes with the work printer printing out my covers and under the removable glass top they go! Now spill proof and also inspiration when I get stuck on my latest work in progress while thinking 'Well this isn't going anywhere, let's start again...'  One more space left for whatever I write next. When I finally get around to it..
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Sep 10, 2021 00:09
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Anyone else doing discounts for Black Friday? While it's probably in the minor leagues compared to some of the authors on here, 11 book sales so far today has finally got me across the $100 US payout threshold for Aussie authors so I'm stoked! (Just don't ask me how many years it took to get there..) I mean who wouldn't want some cyberpunk fiction to go with their new bargain fridge? Wait..
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How strange - was Bounce hoping you'd never discover your work in audio form out there?..
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