Seumach Gallacher tells us about the results of his tests on paid book-selling websites. Thank you very much for sharing this with us, Seumach!
…I promised yeez a round up summary of my recent dabble with book-selling websites… and the final report makes for sorry reading… let me back up and explain for emb’dy coming in fresh to this… as a self-published author, I’m always keen to find and develop non-spamming channels to help sell my wee literary masterpieces… Aunty Internet is full of enterprising offers, at a cost, of course, with various claims of daily email shots to anywhere up to 120,000+ readers, clustered in genres, in order ‘to target and maximise your sales to these avid followers’... well, in good ol’ Scottish vernacular… BORROX!!… here’s the score:
Website ONE:
Paid US$ 15—Result 2 sales
Website TWO
Paid US$ 16—Result 2 sales
Website THREE
Paid US$ 50—Result 1 sale
…impressive, NOT… in truth, I hadn’t expected massive downloads from this, but the sheer sparseness of the returns is mind-boggling… and…
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I’ve often wondered about a number of these sites that promise you’ll sell tons of books. Glad I held onto the money I didn’t have at the time.
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I know exactly what you mean. I’m sure going to be careful with these pages. 🙂
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