Jane Curry and Seana Smith take a deeper dive into self-publishing, using Seana's self-published books as examples.
- Seana’s first self published book, made the mistake of not researching what people want to read. Did not sell at all well. And was pulled.
- So the next project was better researched and planned, Wildly Weird But Totally True: Australia.
- Commissioned a cover, and layout, which didn’t work well.
- Learning curve, it started selling when I began running adverts on Amazon.
- All the ways Amazon earns money; printing books, sales commission, advertising, Kindle downloads.
- Ingram also does print on demand, how Amazon interacts with them.
- Once books start selling on Amazon, Amazon helps you sell more.
- Amazon advertising, pay per click, but impressions are not paid for.
- The joy of checking daily sales.
- Jane’s now running advertising for some of her books via Simon and Shuster. Leaning int o the algorithm.
- Next came Wildly Weird But Totally True: Animals but it has not sold well, probably because there is a lot of competition in that area.
- But remember, there are many books on Amazon that sell no copies.
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In Australia: Going Under is available in bookshops and online stores in Australia and on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
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