Comments on: I Give Up! Exclusivity here I come! #Amazon #KindleUnlimited #KDPSelect

By: Harnessing the Power of #Amazon – What I did & the Results of my #Free Promotion - Georgia Rose BooksGeorgia Rose Books

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:03:55 +0000

[…] As some of you may already know I opted back into KDP Select at the beginning of May and my reasons for doing so are explained in this post here. […]

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Wed, 04 May 2016 09:16:36 +0000

In reply to Wendy Lou Jones. Thanks so much for reading and commenting Wendy. It's lovely to hear from others who have been through the same sort of decision making :-) Onwards and upwards and I wish you the best of luck too :-)

By: Wendy Lou Jones

Wendy Lou Jones — Wed, 04 May 2016 09:00:19 +0000

Hurrah! Join the club. I did the same thing, only didn’t give it as long, only one month. Sold zero copies elsewhere and so came over to the dark side. The only downer is in doing that you lose all your rank and links and reviews and have to start again. I thought hard about whether to go back after, as sales not much better here, but decided that nowhere else offers any promotion for books that are indie, so am putting all my eggs in this basket and just hoping for miracles. Good luck!

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:05:55 +0000

In reply to Liz. This is exactly what I have been doing for a while Liz and I struggle with the limited amount of marketing I can manage anyway without having to repeat tweets for every different site etc. It's just too much so I'm hoping I shall be better off this way. Thanks so much for reading and commenting, it's lovely to see you here :-)

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:01:06 +0000

In reply to Carol Hedges.

Thanks Carol, all very positive 🙂 I do like messing around with the keywords – it’s amazing to see which categories you can end up in. Mine got into ‘Sports’ a while ago which I found intriguing so I went to check the keywords I’d used and adding ‘kick boxing’ had changed everything! I do feel quite content to be all under one roof, so to speak 🙂

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Mon, 02 May 2016 18:57:37 +0000

In reply to Lorraine Devon Wilke. I just went to check Lorraine because I thought there was an opt-out thing with the Kindle Unlimited but that must have been for something else as it seems to be compulsory. Do you not like the KU programme? I shall certainly see how it goes, not much change so far :-) Many thanks for stopping by.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 02 May 2016 18:56:10 +0000

I’ve been hemming and hawing about returning to Select myself after hitting the 2-month mark and seeing only a third of the sales in the other channels, but that also means low sales overall from Amazon outside of Select. And you’re so right about needing to promote your books being available everywhere as well, which means more tweets, more boosted posts, and advertising.

By: Carol Hedges

Carol Hedges — Mon, 02 May 2016 18:35:41 +0000

Amazon all the way here. Smashwords is just to easy to ‘pirate’. Barnes & Noble never sells me anything. I find the staff ‘behind the scenes ‘ on Createspace and Kindle are quick to reply, sort out any problems speedily and try to help. And I can fiddle on my dashboard and mess around with key words. There is the option to do promos, and as for Kindle select, one can always pull out…good luck my fellow scribe!

By: Lorraine Devon Wilke

Lorraine Devon Wilke — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:02:20 +0000

Georgia Rose:

Good post and I’ll be interested to hear how this change impacts your marketing. I originally started with KDP exclusivity for my first book, then opted to open things up with my second, and took both books out of Select. Ebook sales at other sites have been marginal, at best, but I remain hesitant to go back, particularly since being in Select does, as I believe, enroll you in the Unlimited subscription program, whether you want to be in it or not. Is that true?

Anyway, keep us posted; I’d love to hear that you found a marked uptick in sales and exposure after jumping back in!!

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Mon, 02 May 2016 09:14:07 +0000

In reply to Wendy J Lennox. We are clearly very similar in our outlook Wendy but I have been thinking about this for so long it just took a final push to make me take the decision I have. I wish you all the best with your next one. You could always leave it in KDP for a while then change it if you wanted to. I think with the other sites you have to be with them for a while to make any inroads and the bigger the name obviously the easier it is. Thanks very much for reading and commenting :-)