Notes from a webinar I attended. The presentation was given by Alex Newton. Any misinformation is the fault o the note taker.
kindle select eBook, global fund USE million:
– 2014> 32 mill
– 2015> 132 mill
– 2016 > 186 Mill
– 2017> 223 mill
– 2018> 268 mill
– top eBook sellers 95% romance are eBooks
– SF/f 68 % eBooks
– Christian books 50% eBooks
– Digital books continue to grow.
The percentage share of kindle royalty pie>
– indie authors 37%
– big five 20%,
– amazon imprints 19%
– Other publishers 20 %
– 70K titles added every month.
Doing a search on Amazon, *search box in Amazon: tricks for Amazon search keys:
– use , or space as the AND (not always reliable)
– use |as OR
– use – as NOT
– use ” for phrase search (not always reliable)
– use categories as filters. defined by sales of your old books and current books. Best for bestseller badges.
– If your book is not in the right category it will not sell. search confined to matching categories.
*best seller list > driven by purchases or downloads. books that sell more recently to today get a higher score. the ranking of your current book will be judged by your past eBook sales and it ranks you by the two numbers of sales.
*browse categories
*book product pages
Find markets and categories that are right for you.
1. How to choose your genre wisely.
– Need to love what you write.
– Craft > have to be good at plotting
– Do you have the knowledge to write with authenticity?
– When the above three merge it become the magic zones.
2. Where are the high sales?
– Romance, mystery and suspect, and SF and F
– Under that nonfiction and teen and A.
– Erotica sales dropping and clean romance growing.
3. Low competition:
– Romance-paranormal high sales and high competition
– Romance clean and wholesome high sales.
– Teen & young adults- romance – SF & dystopian. Nitch market
– Science fiction & fantasy-science fiction-military high sales
– Literature 7 fiction-literary criticism subjects & themes science fiction and fantasy > low sales
4: seek categories easy to rank to win first plc seller status
5. Broad exposure:
– The same book can be in different genera.
– Contact Amazon and tell them I want to authorcental.amazong.com/gp/help/contactus > you need to give them the precise category path.
6. Topical fit> select categories write a book about Japanese gardens> select that exact calorie
7. Balance>
Many authors will see how their competitors list their books.
At the bottom of the book page i.e. business writing skills.
– Click on the buses writing skills, is a link. Will shows a category on the right side
– In this example of business & money
– Under that, skills
– Under that category of business writing.
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