Thread: Author Earnings looks beyond Kindle
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Old 10-13-2015, 02:55 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by conan50 View Post

I'm wondering if KU is having a negative impact on book sales, so that authors are pretty much stuck with KU regardless.
I also wonder if the author ought to just put a ridiculous price on their ebook to make it more attractive to KU readers.
There are several reliable reports that suggest participation in KU results in more sales rather than less. (One coming from noted Amazon bad-mouther, Mark Coker, of Smashwords. Which kinda surprised me.)

The way it works is that full reads in KU are treated as paid (discounted) reads so they count towards sales ranking and higher rankings boost visibility in the sales lists as well as in the alsobot algorithms. Both of which sales.
So, rather than substitute for sales, KU is a net booster and raising prices dramatically would probably be counterproductive.
Milleage varies by author and by book, though.
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