Buddy the Elf Gives Good Advice
Buddy the Elf took a look at what Santa’s other elves did over the Christmas-2016 break and had me de-list my ebooks at several stores where the elves had just made my ebooks available.
Buddy said that 97% of my ebook sales were coming through Amazon, which uses a data-driven approach to sales and customers.
In plain English, this data-driven approach means for you, the reader, that you get great recommendations about other ebooks to buy when you buy one of my ebooks, and vice-versa.
In contrast, other ebooksellers (such as Apple) use a human-curated approach — or no approach at all — to ebook recommendations. That does not help you, especially when you have a hankering for another good book to read!
So, I now focus all my ebook sales through Amazon. You don’t lose anything with this focus, given:
- wide availability of Kindle ebooks across the world;
- wide availability of the Kindle app, including on iOS and Android devices.
And, I now can make my ebooks available through the “Kindle Unlimited” program, which, next to Amazon itself as the largest ebookseller worldwide, is the second largest ebookseller worldwide.
Who knew?! I would have guessed Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, or Kobo!
Of course, any ebook that was also available as a paperback will continue to be available as a paperback at Amazon.
Plus, through the Kindle MatchBook program, you can get the matching Kindle ebook to a SpryFeet.com paperback free at Amazon!
Again, it’s that whole “data-driven” thing at Amazon, which helps you to find more books that you’ll like and helps me to find more customers who will like my books!
Please visit my Amazon author page to see all my Kindle and paperback books.
By the way, Buddy the Elf must have noticed that I read Simplify and Essentialism over the Christmas break. Some of his advice definitely matched what I read in those two books!
I’m just sayin’….
Kirk Mahoney
Author, SpryFeet.com
