Review: Reads like KDP Select commercial
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
I think there was good information in this book.  I think it would be especially helpful for established authors with at least some audience and since these are the authors most likely to be able to sell a significant number of books through indie publishing, they will likely benefit more than I did.However, one of the things she writes about was how using the "free" days in the Select program ultimately increased sales by shooting her book up the best seller rankings.  This got her book noticed by many more people who then bought the book on days it wasn't free.  I have read in other places that Amazon has changed how they determine the rankings so lots of downloads on free days have far less positive impact than they did when the program was first introduced.I did find it useful to read about her experiments with different numbers of free days and her results with using 2 and 3 day promotions instead of the full five.What I liked best was her reminder that for an author, part of the joy is knowing that people are reading your work and the high number of downloads on the free days meant that more people saw her work than might otherwise have seen it.  She reminded me of the intrinsic satisfaction of knowing people are reading what I have written.  She also discussed how those readers increased her sales with their reviews and by telling other people about her book and for an unknown writer like me, that is probably the strongest argument in favor of using the free days tool.