{"id":89,"date":"2012-01-16T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-01-15T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:45:20","slug":"kindle-select-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Select in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second book, <em>Firehearted<\/em>, is currently enrolled in the Kindle Select program.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an experiment, and I recently took a look at the numbers to see if the two days free had any global effect.<\/p>\n<p>Short answer, hell yes.<\/p>\n<p>Other indie authors have been very generous with their data to help others, and I want to follow their example.\u00a0 During that week<em> Firehearted<\/em> was downloaded over 1,200 times.\u00a0 My first book <em>The Last Mage Guardian<\/em> , not free and not part of Kindle Select, sold 25 copies.\u00a0 However during the previous week, it sold only 16.\u00a0\u00a0 I am hopeful that when the legions of readers finish their free book, they will feverishly search Amazon for my other work and find <em>Last Mage Guardian<\/em> and its numbers will increase even more.\u00a0 So,\u00a0 by the end of the month, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more!\u00a0 Prior to the free promotion, I hadn&#8217;t sold anything in Amazon&#8217;s separate foreign stores (UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain).\u00a0 During the promo week 38 copies were either sold or downloaded in Germany (none in the other stores).\u00a0 So somehow the Kindle Select program got me foreign readers, an effect nobody else has mentioned.\u00a0 (And why only Germany?) Is a puzzlement!<\/p>\n<p>Zu meinem Deutsch Leser\/Leserinnen, vielen Dank und Willkommen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second book, Firehearted, is currently enrolled in the Kindle Select program.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an experiment, and I recently took a look at the numbers to see if the two days free had any global effect. Short answer, hell yes. Other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}