Review: So you want to be a writer...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2012
This really isn't a book about how to sell books on Amazon. It is a report on how one woman decided to try marketing her books through an Amazon program and what happened when she did it. If you have already written several books, and they are already available as ebooks, you might get similar results by doing what she did.I don't have several already published novels, and I am unlikely to write even one, but reading the book was a fun look into indie publishing. I now have a better idea of why there are so many inexpensive books for the Kindle, some of which I have enjoyed a lot. It also explains where the free books are coming from.Basically, she is reporting what happened when she took two of her older books and used Amazon's system to give them away for 5 days over a 90 day period. They were two carefully chosen books because one of them was the first book in a pair of books, and possibly the first in a series (the others not yet written). She is probably a pretty good fiction writer. I'm not sure what she did would work as well if she did not have some pretty good product to give samples out on.What happened was that a LOT of people downloaded the books when they were free. And then downloaded more books that were not free. And reviewed her books, which resulted in even more sales.She ended up selling so many books that for the first time in her writing life she is actually making money writing.The title of this book is very honest, but it sounds like the title of a scam. It isn't a scam. Yes, she would like it if you bought one or more of her novels. That shouldn't be a big surprise.