How To Sell Free Ebooks On Amazon
Also make sure you get some reviews to help boost the sales of your ebook.
How to sell free ebooks on amazon. Self publish ebooks and paperbacks for free with kindle direct publishing and reach millions of readers on amazon. Now that you know how to sell ebooks on amazon you can publish and sell your ebook with ease without any problems. Although you won t make a profit off a free book you ll capture a wider audience be able to market to groups and sites devoted to free e books and get more exposure than if you started out with a selling price.
Amazon does not give precise details on their free book promotions page apart from this broad explanation. Free kindle ebooks sell ebooks in the end through a complex algorithm that amazon uses to calculate an individual ebook s sales rank. If your ebook is enrolled in amazon s kdp select program amazon prime members and kindle unlimited members can read your book for free.
To maximize your sales you should also sell through smaller retailers like apple sony and scribd. Selling your ebooks on amazon is both easy and free to some extent because you don t have to pay to have your ebooks featured in amazon s catalogue. Here are 10 ways you can increase your income by giving away your books for free.
When you upload your ebook to amazon s digital text platform the dtp will automatically convert your ebook to the kindle format for you. Kindle unlimited and amazon prime borrows. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on kindle stores worldwide within 24 48 hours.
Listing your book as free for at least five days will boost its presence on kindle and move it up the amazon best sellers list. In simple terms each free ebook that is downloaded counts towards the ebook s sales ranking.