Reflections from a Free Book Promotion

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Thought I'd share a few reflections from my Free Book Promotion.

I signed up for Kindle Select when I published my book last November and did nothing with it until July.

I didn't realize how giving my book away for free would benefit me. It seemed like it would just take sales away, but now I understand how it drove traffic which can show Amazon it's a book to show more people. It made it as far as #3 in all it's categories (for free books!) I saw my rankings improve significantly. Also, as it went on I got really excited about people having and reading my book.
Even though I gave my book away free it was still one of my biggest months in KDP royalties
It was by far the biggest month in people reading my book, with over 6k pages read vs an average of less than 3k.

I'm experimenting more now that I see how easy it is. I had intended to raise my ebook price incrementally over the first few months but never did. After the promotion I finally raised it. This quarter I'm going to experiment with running a sale vs free.

I wish I had started experimenting with it earlier!

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Reflections from a Free Book Promotion