I’ve been busily watching videos
from the IndieReCon2015. It was run by ALLI and there was so much information
that it will take me a while to absorb it all.
One person in a Q&A asked the
head of Bookbub about e-book hoarding.
And I confess to being kind of
guilty of this. I subscribe to both bookbub and buckbooks. They are not
publishers but are companies that have found a niche doing the searching for
people and letting them know what books are reduced, or free this week, or
offered in a bundle. Amazon is huge. You cannot possibly spend the hours on searching
through it all yourself. So you let these guys know what genres you like and
they will send you a message every day. As an author, a promo with either will
catapult your book into the bestseller list. But if it is just downloaded and
never read, how does that affect the author?
I reckon its good all round. As people
have often said, you can’t tell people what to do with your book once you have
published it. They will love it or hate it, or leave it in their kindle unread.
They may recommend it to all their friends, or they may write a scathing
review. Or carve it into mountains.
It’s out of your control. And getting
upset about it isn’t doing you any favours. If they download it, and it shoots
up in the charts then other people may find it and read it. And then it shows
up in the ‘also bought’ tables and the search algorithms, and that’s where you really want to be; on the page as people
shop for other stuff. That’s why people beg these companies to promote their
books.
I saw a book that I was inclined
to read and it was free. I didn’t download it. And the next time I saw it, it
was back to full price. Dammit. So now I will hit that one click button. And I will
hoard ALL the books. It’s so out of character *snorts sarcastically*
BUT, I also add it to my Goodreads
list. And that means that everyone who follows me there sees that book scroll
past on their timeline. And maybe they think about reading it and go click on
it, too? How is this a bad thing?
So now I have two years’ worth of
books in my to-read list.
How many do you have?
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