Living by the Swamp FREE on Amazon

Amazon have started a lending library on Kindle for prime members. Living by the Swamp is one of the first books added to the lending library:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=alice+crooker&x=19&y=17

12/8/2011


12/8/2011


Shelagh....


Great news , I'll pass it on..



Cheers...Joe...

Thank you, Shelagh!

Great! Santa Klaus coming soon.

Dear Shelagh,
I really like the idea of the lending library. Amazon is out front on lots of wonderful ideas.

Alice, you are a trend setter. That is not like and Irish setter, hahahahahah. I have been to the Brandon Mall and cannot be responsible for my sense of humor.?

I hope you have a million downloads and are as famous as Alice In Wonderland.
Love,
Betty

If it weren't for the fact that I keep my print copy on my desk, I would be eager to borrow a copy myself.

Ann

12/8/2011



I just got an e mail from Smash Words, I sold another
book , I have both my books for .99 Cents...Another
1000 E Books to go...


Cheers..Joe....

Someone borrowed Living by the Swamp from the library.

Well done, Joe!

Alice, the book is scheduled, as part of a promotion, to be free on Amazon for everyone (not just prime members) from 25th December-29th December.

Thank you, Shelagh,

We tried. Maybe if they pay people to download it that might work.

Sure glad I don't rely on writing for my subsistence.

Dear Alice,

Don't worry about the fact that there has only been one book on loan. Borrowers are only allowed one book per month. If they borrowed your book, they would not be able to borrow another until January.

However, having joined this new scheme, the book can be promoted for five days as a free copy. I've set the dates over the Christmas period. We should see many more downloads during that period. How things go from there, we shall have to wait and see.

Thank you, Shelagh. I shall not worry. The people who wanted the book have it. Mission has been accomplished.

Alice, your book is:

#31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Children's Nonfiction > People & Places > Family Life

Shelagh,

It has far to go to impress me.

So have I, apparently.

Shelagh,

You did a great job with the cover and publication. No one could have done better. You have mightly impressed me.

I have had a ton of fun buying and giving the book away. Now they can just have it and I won't have to pay. The only trouble is you will now get nothing.

Who is the winner here?

It isn't that simple, Alice. Last October, when I added Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine to Kindle, it did not make a single sale. It became available for free download in July this year. 6,500+ downloads were made on amazon.com and 4,000+ on amazon.co.uk. The book made a few sales on AmazonUS after the free offer finished but the book is now making steady sales on AmazonUK. I could not have predicted how the free downloads would pan out.

From having no sales at all, I made enough sales to receive a royalty check from Amazon. To complain about Amazon is to shoot myself in the foot. The complainers obviously have less to gain than I did. That gives them the right to complain. For authors in a similar situation to me, the free program on Amazon really does provide an opportunity that just would not arise under indie authors' own steam.

I promised that your book would be free over Christmas. The Kindle Select program offered me the easiet way of fulfilling my promise. I see that as a benefit. It saved me a great deal of time ... and time is money.

Btw, I was wrong about your book being borrowed. The promotion actually produced a sale, not a book on loan. So Kindle Select has already made an impact on the sales of your book.

I was the buyer. At least I am sold on the book and the publisher, but we already knew that.

Time will tell, I like Amazon, also.

The problem is not the publisher or the medium--it is the author and the subject.

I don't write what people want to read quoth Lyntx. She is right.

I take no offense at not having a best seller.

I have two good books--not bad for a retired accountant.