Two Plus Weeks left in Kindle Unlimited –
What to Do, What do Do…
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Pictured Left :
One Night in the Hill Country
Currently available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited
Three thoughtful 4 Star reviews:
“…especially liked that the children were integral to the plot and the action. They were smart, brave, and ready to help each other in a terrifying situation.”
Rhonda, Texas
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Original fiction, photo-memoirs, and poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma
Available via subscription, direct purchase, or library.
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“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”
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Two Plus Weeks left in Kindle Unlimited –
What to Do, What do Do…
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December 6, 2014
Category – Platform Advantages
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Pros & Cons, So Far
Sales aren’t much better, neither are borrows. So I started looking into what it’d take to go wide again – whew!
Except for D2D’s apparent ease of platform, not sure I’d put everything back out everywhere.
And for my lower priced items, which is most of my titles, even Amazon’s current low pay-out per borrow for authors in KU, a dollar something, is 4x what I’d get having the same titles elsewhere. Including, ironically, on Amazon outside of Kindle Unlimited (KU).
A few, a very few titles, never seem to sell on Amazon, but, like “The Old American Artist,” do, on Apple, sometimes Google. The audio version, pictured left, is of course a separate thing.
Plus, with image books, unless I want to shrink the image file sizes, which limits their clarity after a certain degree of enlargement, I’m also better off via Amazon’s larger file size limit. Only Apple competes on that level, and that would require direct uploading.
So…
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Best (Current) Bet
…with just over two weeks to go for the majority of my titles, I lean toward doing another 90 day lap.
Reminds me of some of my early morning fitness boot camp work outs – once the workout starts, gotta stick it out, even if I do have to pause now and then to catch my breath 🙂
I’ll have a three month KU commitment-ending update in about two weeks.
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Reviews
As always, if you have read a book of mine, honest reviews are an indie author’s best friend. 🙂
I’ve received three very thoughtful 4 Star reviews for “One Night in the Hill Country” and I’m very grateful for the insight and encouragement they provide, thank you!
Sincerely,
Adan
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namaste´- con dios – god be with you
Sheila & Adan
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Difficult decision, to be sure. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
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Thanks Andy, it is, much more so than I expected. I’ve vacillated daily and even intra-daily 🙂 but without a full resolution. Sales/borrows have remained “very” erratic, but overall, comparable to my overall results when I was wide. I’d much rather be able to be in both Kindle Unlimited and wide, but that’s not an option at this time. I’ll definitely have something decided by or before the 22nd of this month, when the majority of my work is up for renewal or not.
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