Tag: pre-orders

Does the early bird get the worm with indie book pre-orders?

Post author By Pamela
Post date May 13, 2014
Categories In Sales, Strategy
2 Comments on Does the early bird get the worm with indie book pre-orders?

A nifty way to generate rankings for your books at its launch is by offering pre-orders. As an indie, you can do this for both ebooks (easy) and paperbacks on Amazon (complex). Pre-orders allow people to place orders as soon as they decide they want your book, when you begin pre-launch promotion. Without pre-orders, people […]

What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander, on Amazon.

Post author By Pamela
Post date November 12, 2013
Categories In Promotion, Sales, Strategy
1 Comment on What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander, on Amazon.

I LOVE Amazon. Please understand, as an indie author, I make the bulk of my $$$$$ on Amazon. In many ways, they single-handedly caused the leveling of the traditional publishing playing field so that indies have a chance to publish on their terms. I don’t love EVERYTHING about Amazon, however, because I’m not a robot. […]