My experiment with Amazon’s Lending Library isn’t over, but it’s certainly in a new phase. I’ve taken Give Me – A Tale of Wyrd and Fae out of the Select program, and it’s again available for Nook.
Nook readers (and Fire users) will enjoy the beautiful interior design by TERyvisions.
Everyone will love the sale price: $1.49. Wowzers!
Space Junque, Spiderwork, and Bleeder are also back at B&N, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised – there have been sales!
I’ll probably still use the Select program for the first three months of stand-alone books. I just don’t have a large enough fan base chomping at the bit to buy my books when they come out, so I need to use what promotional tools are available to me. But I can’t see staying in the LL as viable in the long term.
Can I be nosy and ask how the Lending Program went? Or would that be too nosy and rude?
I’m thinking Amazon & B&N are cutting their own throats. Glad you’re back at B&N. Happy Selling!
Linda
Not at all! It obviously didn’t do well enough for me to keep the books in it, but there were some good points.
I had several thousand downloads of books on the days they went free and hundreds of sales afterwards which then diminished. Oddly, the books did worse saleswise after about a week coming off of free. My theory is that going free destroyed the “alsobots” for the books. Instead of being in the alsobots of similar books where readers look for books they’d like, the books ended up being in the alsobots of other free books – meaning the books were then being seen by people who don’t pay for books.
And I wonder how many people actually read the books they download for free…
I’m at a pretty frustrated point. It’s getting harder and harder to write books that relatively few people read. I don’t mean to sound like a crybaby because I have wonderful, thoughtful readers who I treasure. It’s simply a matter of math. I need more of those fab readers.
I have a standalone straight contemporary romance short coming out in the next few days. I’ll put it in the library, and in three months it will come out and go to all outlets. I’ll know more after that.
Linda M – I agree with you. I’m not sure it’s a good idea to base a business strategy on cornering the market, as Amazon seems to be doing. They own a huge enough piece of it just because their service is fantastic.
Why endanger that good will?
I just ended my experiment with that. I wasn’t impressed. Lots of free downloads but nothing else. Oh well. 🙂
You build a fan base one person at a time – or so I keep telling myself. You have a loyal fan here!
Laura – yes! The very best thing we can do for our writing careers seems to be to write more (good) books! Thanks for your kind words.
By the way, I’m reading My Enchanted Life right now and loving it. So creative!
I had a fit of mental illness and put Give Me in the lending library again. gah! Slap me!!
I will NOT do it again, but it’s stuck there until June. 🙁 Please email me lkr@lkrigel.com if you were looking for a Nook version.