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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Unfortunately, I have not seen large sales of my books as yet, nor have I seen much if any evidence of word-of-mouth activity, despite practicing this theory for the past year. So I cannot say how effective the theory is. Or-- maybe I can make this conclusion: The theory MAY be valid, but does not prove effective for unknown, unpopular, or just plain bad authors.
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Right. If no one knows who you are, or if your works don't appeal to the people who read eBooks, then doing everything else right isn't going to help you (I'll avoid the "plain bad author" part for now 8-) ).
I just checked out your web site and it looks to me that you have done everything right. In addition to a nice, clean, simple site, the eBooks are done right: no DRM, good price, many formats, excerpts, plus a little free content to "get us hooked".
The only suggestions I have is:
1. You might want to support RTF as another format. This format retains the formatting, but is easy to convert to every reader that I can think of.
2. Popularize your site more. Maybe a podcast of one of your stories (ala Podiobooks).