Thread: Author Earnings looks beyond Kindle
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Old 10-13-2015, 05:14 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
I agree that the lower prices might keep some readers away. And so many authors offer the first in a series for free so it's become the "norm" to 1. expect it or 2. wait for it to go free at some point. I'm an Amazon associate and when I do a post about a book that is "regularly" $7.99 on sale for $1.99 I get a LOT more clicks and usually more buys than if a book is $2.99 to .99 cents. Free trumps everything in clicks (although I don't track downloads or use my associate code with free because we are only allowed so many free downloads against our code. If we have too many Amazon confiscates all of our earnings for the month).
That doesn't seem fair that Amazon can take your earnings. Is that to keep you from posting links to the free books?
It seems the whole thing with pricing is in flux. I can see a $7.99 book getting people excited when it drops to $1.99 or free. I don't think anyone gets excited anymore when the price drops on a $2.99 book, but I could be wrong.
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