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John Paul Cater · 06-12-2015, 01:13 AM

The post-mortem on my 2-day Amazon Kindle FREE book offering goes like this: first day (Sunday) - 101 books given away, second day (Monday) - 45 books given away, third day (Tuesday) of the two day offering - I'm still wondering how this happened - 3 books, for a total of 149 books. I'm still waiting for my first review from that offering. That's what it's all about, isn't it? My book dropped from the top few thousand books during the FREE promotion back to the top 100,000 or so books after that. Was it worth it? The jury's still out on that one. I just added another e-book to Kindle and am putting it in the timed discounted book offering this time, hoping it will do as well and bring a few more royalties from the promotion. That's in early July. I'll post as it activates.

06-12-2015, 01:13 AM	#5
John Paul Cater Major Kong Posts: 10 Karma: 12 Join Date: May 2015 Location: Texas, USA Device: Kindle Fire	The Free E-book Promotion Results in a Nutshell The post-mortem on my 2-day Amazon Kindle FREE book offering goes like this: first day (Sunday) - 101 books given away, second day (Monday) - 45 books given away, third day (Tuesday) of the two day offering - I'm still wondering how this happened - 3 books, for a total of 149 books. I'm still waiting for my first review from that offering. That's what it's all about, isn't it? My book dropped from the top few thousand books during the FREE promotion back to the top 100,000 or so books after that. Was it worth it? The jury's still out on that one. I just added another e-book to Kindle and am putting it in the timed discounted book offering this time, hoping it will do as well and bring a few more royalties from the promotion. That's in early July. I'll post as it activates.