I do appreciate your clarity here, and keep up the explanations, however if you are using Amazon Ads, that's not really a fair representation for those who purely publish on Amazon without ads and want to know how many clicks and hence royalties they should expect.
But I don't think any authors publish without doing any marketing do they? Even if you have a blog, that's a form of marketing. A Facebook page is marketing. If you're not paying with money then you're paying with the time it takes to write your blog. I just searched "dating books" on Amazon.com and there's 35 pages of books listed as "sponsored" (meaning they're using paid ads.) I don't think it's possible to compete without without some serious marketing, including paid ads.
I do appreciate your clarity here, and keep up the explanations, however if you are using Amazon Ads, that's not really a fair representation for those who purely publish on Amazon without ads and want to know how many clicks and hence royalties they should expect.
But I don't think any authors publish without doing any marketing do they? Even if you have a blog, that's a form of marketing. A Facebook page is marketing. If you're not paying with money then you're paying with the time it takes to write your blog. I just searched "dating books" on Amazon.com and there's 35 pages of books listed as "sponsored" (meaning they're using paid ads.) I don't think it's possible to compete without without some serious marketing, including paid ads.
I love the excitement and transparency in your Posts.
That's a fantastic result, especially the ratings. They are so hard to get and you have done an excellent job at leveraging Substack to get them.
Keep it up!
Thank you, Veronica!
Matt,
Thank you for sharing!
I don't have a manuscript yet, but will work on it, and this post is encouraging👍
Keep at it. Given time, the manuscript gets done.