6 thoughts on “Quick question”

1. I published with KDP. What information are you looking for?

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   May 4, 2014 at 5:53 PM Reply

   1. I’m mostly wondering if you think the Select program is worth it or not.

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      May 4, 2014 at 5:54 PM Reply

      1. Ah…so hard to say. I’ll say it was good for me because I needed to publish my book and it was the easiest venue that reached the most number of readers. It has pros (70% revenue) and cons (exclusivity for 3 months).

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         May 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM Reply

2. Just thought I’d add a thought: KDP want exclusivity on your book. That means you can’t publish your book anywhere else until you’re out the KDP program (3 months). When you leave the KDP program, you also forfeit the 70% revenue on sales and go down to 30%. I hope that helps!

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   May 4, 2014 at 5:55 PM Reply

3. I haven’t delved into the Select program, though I have used KDP for the Kindle version of my book. I’ve heard that Select comes to be really handy when you have multiple titles, because it spreads the word about one title and, if that does well, then people will check out the other stuff. So I’m holding off until I have a better retinue of books under my belt before I really try it.

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   May 4, 2014 at 8:49 PM Reply

   1. I think I’m holding off on this round, if for no better reason than my love of number-crunching won’t let me do an exclusive until I have some idea of what kind of numbers I’ll see from all of the various services. I mean, if it only sells 50 copies it won’t matter too much, but if I get decent numbers I’ll want to see if KDP Select would have actually earned me any more money. Plus, as someone who has solely used the iBookstore for every ebook I actually own, it weirds me out to deny the only ebook service I use access to my own book.

      We’ll see what happens a book or two down the road, I think.

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      May 4, 2014 at 9:18 PM Reply