At the time there were no ‘verified purchase’ labels and no checks so lots of people were buying ads that gave them curso de milagros pdf. This gave readers the impression that these books were well worth buying. The tablets devices had limited display features so the quality of the book formatting did not matter as much as it does today.
People had to download a sample to get a proper look at the book so in the case of a ‘free’ book, it was easier just downloading the whole thing than the possibility of virtually downloading it twice.
The e/iBook market has very much changed:
– In excess of 70,000 titles a month are being released every month making it far harder to get your book noticed.
– Readers are expecting a high standard of formatting. Each listing now has a specific link to complain about formatting
– Readers can get a preview of the book without downloading
– Major outlets have put restriction on sites that list free sites, so fewer books are being promoted at some of the more well-known ‘free’ listing sites and there is more competition for the places on offer
– Review policy seems to be very inconsistent with some major online outlets Some support staff are saying that authors cannot review other author’s books, others say their reviews are welcome.
Below are quite a few methods to promote your books on a ‘free’ day and reasons why you should, but you must first understand that for continued success, your book needs to optimised and readers need to be willing to pay for it.
You can get yourself lots of publicity but at the end of the day if readers do not like what you are offering or the book does not resonate with them then the book will not sell. To illustrate this, we have all come across books and films that have had huge marketing budgets but ended up a flop because the product just was not right.
So How Do You Get Noticed And Are ‘Free’ Days Still Worth It?
The best way to set up your Giveaway is through a websites that exist to enable this of which there is an increasing number online.
Whether ‘free’ days are still worth it depending to a certain extent upon what you intend to get out of them and what else you have done to promote them.
3 Main Reasons To Have A ‘Free’ Day
1. Increase your relevancy score (‘customers who bought… etc)
2. Gather reviews
3. Boost in short-term sales
The first two reasons are the most important. There is a train of thought that major online outlets would far rather you have 100 ‘free’ books downloaded where the readers all buy similar books as opposed to several thousand downloads where the readers have absolutely nothing in common.
Internal Review Request Link
This is the most basic promotion tactics that everybody should be doing but unfortunately lots of people are not and they are really missing out because of it. It will also seriously affect one of the reasons for your ‘free’ day.
You should always have a link at the back of your book with a link back to your listing requesting that the reader leaves an honest review. The most likely time people are going to leave a review is after they’ve just read your book. The link encourages them to leave a review and makes it as easy as possible for them.
