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Quoth · 01-02-2023, 03:26 AM

No, it's not my end. Checking price on dozens of books daily for almost 10 years. The few times this happened it was "distribution rights" with a large publisher and solved by searching UK rather than US title. Your case is unique for me in almost 10 years.

Also Amazon statistics are not reliable as they are only by Marketplace, not country.

It may be that some marketplaces don't support "free" as part of KDP Select (because maybe they only do KDP rules which doesn't allow free), but I don't know because you couldn't pay me to use KDP Select, it's monopolist and I expect to be found to be illegal somewhere. So I just use KDP.

I'm not being critical of you, but offering suggestions to help from doing various kinds of publishing and marketing for over 25 years. Go KDP, not KDP Select, either 99c 30% margin or $2.99 70% margin, free isn't possible now, used to be. Periodically offer Free via Smashwords and Google Playbooks. They cost nothing to use and can use the same epub, cover and meta data as KDP upload. Smashwords sells direct and also re-distributes to at least Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Odilo and Scribd. You can separately make a Dual Mobi in Calibre from epub and upload that to Smashwords purely for their own Kindle customers. Don't upload ms doc to Smashwords.

Do you want to benefit Amazon or reach readers as widely as possible?

01-02-2023, 03:26 AM	#10
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,309 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	No, it's not my end. Checking price on dozens of books daily for almost 10 years. The few times this happened it was "distribution rights" with a large publisher and solved by searching UK rather than US title. Your case is unique for me in almost 10 years. Also Amazon statistics are not reliable as they are only by Marketplace, not country. It may be that some marketplaces don't support "free" as part of KDP Select (because maybe they only do KDP rules which doesn't allow free), but I don't know because you couldn't pay me to use KDP Select, it's monopolist and I expect to be found to be illegal somewhere. So I just use KDP. I'm not being critical of you, but offering suggestions to help from doing various kinds of publishing and marketing for over 25 years. Go KDP, not KDP Select, either 99c 30% margin or $2.99 70% margin, free isn't possible now, used to be. Periodically offer Free via Smashwords and Google Playbooks. They cost nothing to use and can use the same epub, cover and meta data as KDP upload. Smashwords sells direct and also re-distributes to at least Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Odilo and Scribd. You can separately make a Dual Mobi in Calibre from epub and upload that to Smashwords purely for their own Kindle customers. Don't upload ms doc to Smashwords. Do you want to benefit Amazon or reach readers as widely as possible? Last edited by Quoth; 01-02-2023 at 03:40 AM.