A Few Weeks After My KDP Free Book Promotion

It's been nearly a month since I did my KDP free book promotion for my book The American Game.  I did it over the long 4th of July weekend, and I put a lot of work and preparation into it.  You can see how it went at the time in my earlier blog posts.

One thing I forgot to mention in them, however, is the value of what it does for you a few weeks after the promotion.

First, the book now gets listed in the categories when Amazon says, "People who bought _____ also bought The American Game."  The blank is any book that was bought by any of the people who downloaded American Game for free.  So the more people who buy other things who downloaded it, the more the book gets listed.

Also, people start reviewing the book.  I went from 5 reviews to 11 reviews, and hopefully that number will grow.

There have not been many paperback sales since then, and I'm said to say the Kindle numbers have not gone up very much either.  However, the Kindle Edition Normalized Pages, (or KENP for short,) went up significantly.  These are pages read by subscribers to Amazon and Kindle.  So people who are already subscribers are more willing to give it a try.

This shouldn't be a huge surprise as people, (me included,) don't want to take chances on things they know nothing about.  So the best thing to do, in my opinion, is go after the people who are already at a place, have already paid their subscription, and lose nothing for trying me out.  That's a good lesson for any independent artist, writers especially.