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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
My experience was exactly the opposite: My e-books, once placed on Amazon's site, had dismal sales compared to my website. The problem with putting my books on others' sites is: No advertising budget means no one will ever find them there; they quickly get lost in the morass of big-budget publisher books (heavily advertised and promoted) and the dead weight of teen-vampire-gay-porn-fanfic that quickly fills their e-book coffers.
Though I'm not getting rich off of my sales, I'm making a hell of a lot more of them than I ever made through Amazon or any of the other e-book sites I've distributed my books through.
Whichever way you sell, the bottom line always is: Promotion is everything.
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That's interesting that your experience is so opposite of mine. Pretty much all of my promotion efforts either list my own website only, or both my website and an Amazon link. But people seem to be buying from Amazon. My deduction is that many of the sales are probably coming from listing in Amazon search results or their "You May Also Like..." section. Also, I post over on Kindleboards, and perhaps members weigh the convenience of instant Whispernet downloads over getting a non-DRM version by buying direct.