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Post by cbedwards on Mar 18, 2015 11:09:02 GMT -5
Why don't we create a separate book with the first 6 (or whatever) chapters free? The big boys do that with some of their releases. Title X (Preview: First 6 Chapters). That kind of thing. Is it against TOS?
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Post by Suzy on Mar 18, 2015 11:11:34 GMT -5
Not a bad idea...
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Post by Daniel on Mar 18, 2015 11:31:08 GMT -5
Why don't we create a separate book with the first 6 (or whatever) chapters free? The big boys do that with some of their releases. Title X (Preview: First 6 Chapters). That kind of thing. Is it against TOS? I'm missing something. How is that different from the free preview Amazon already give readers? |
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Post by cbedwards on Mar 18, 2015 11:50:15 GMT -5
You give them 1/3 of the book and hope they buy it. It seems to be middle ground between free and the 10 page sample.
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Mar 18, 2015 12:04:19 GMT -5
Sounds like we need a guinea pig!
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Post by Daniel on Mar 18, 2015 12:36:37 GMT -5
You give them 1/3 of the book and hope they buy it. It seems to be middle ground between free and the 10 page sample. Gotcha. You threw me off with "6 chapters," which is what Amazon gives my readers already (well, 5 chapters plus part of a sixth) for my second book. It would be interesting to see if a preview of 30% rather than 10% would make readers who read previews more likely to buy. Anyone who gets that far would be pretty invested in the story. I don't think your idea would be a TOS violation unless you were in Select. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 18, 2015 17:57:18 GMT -5
A few people on KB have done that. I think it leads to problems when KDP can't distinguish the shorter sample "book" from the full-length book and keeps copying one over the other. Also, angry reviews when a reader buys an author's "new" book and finds it's "the same book" as this other one he's already (in reality, only the first third is the same).
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Post by Hsin-Yi on Apr 7, 2015 21:28:02 GMT -5
There's an author on KBoards called Elisa Barr or Elisha Barr, I think, who did this very successfully. She wrote one of those prepper/post-apocalyptic/EMP books - I think it was called "Outage" and published the first few chapters as a preview (clearly labelled) - I think she got fantastic mailing list signups & sell-through when the book finally came out. Not sure about any lashback in the reviews though...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2015 5:57:43 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever seen these samples sell that well.
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