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Originally Posted by JulieMack
LOL - thank you for your honest feedback. Did not know you could publish from Smashwords to Amazon - are you seeing sales on Smashwords?
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Nope. So far it's only the free downloads. If they all buy a copy, I'll be able to afford a luxury pizza and maybe a can of coke.
Doing better with the paper version, also at Amazon. I've sold one there. It was the one I bought myself to send to my granddaughter. It was actually cheaper to buy one copy at $12.99 and have Amazon ship than to pay $6 and some cents and have CreateSpace send it via the US postal service.
In the near future I'm going to work out a breeze of a marketing plan which will turn things around.
But seriously without the publishing houses behind you, or some serious luck with reviews, I think you're talking small change for indie-publishing. You do it for love, not for money. Someone I regard as a success and have as one of my role models is K C May, whom you will meet on here. I saw that she had a give-away deal on her latest book, to see how many would be sold, sorry, given away in a week. The figure was slightly over 300 books. It would be interesting to know how many would have stuck with it at, say $0.99, $1.99 and $2.99. I think you have to be with a publisher to go much beyond that price and still see sales, but I 'd be glad if someone in here with more experience will come in and correct me, and give us all some hope.