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Originally Posted by AlessiaBrio
I created a very basic form to try to gather some data. With only 43 responses thus far (out of tens of thousands of ARe publisher accounts), the figures are quite disturbing.
https://goo.gl/forms/4vPPKhNgCDurfbFH2 |
I put my books up there (even though they are not largely romance, they are more romantic) because it had a good reputation for being able to sell books. And the first couple of years I did fine, even as a kind of subgenre author. That really started to taper off and I even took them down at one point to try KU. I put 3 of them back up late last year, but they never sold very well after that point.
I do agree with John that when discounting was no longer allowed on big 6 it hurt vendors terribly (and Amazon associates because those are now the deals people look for and there are less of them). It has also hurt Kobo and is probably the main reason they have cut back on coupons so much (although there is always a tendency to run something like that for a time and the offload that expense back on publishers or authors -- that's a natural flow. But they probably had huge cost hits on their coupons. Notice that they've gone to a points system/membership model and some of those points can be used on publisher books as far as I know.)
It's a tough market!