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What I Learned From My Amazon Kindle Countdown Promotion

This past weekend, I experimented with putting Finding the Core of Your Story on an Amazon Kindle Countdown promotion. If you’re not familiar with the program, it’s a feature that Amazon recently added to KDP Select. The idea is that your book goes on sale, counting back up to the normal price over a period of time. So, for example, when I did my sale, I set up five countdown milestones that each lasted 12 hours. My book began the sale at $1.99, then went up $1 every 12 hours until it returned to the usual price of $6.99.

It was a great experience to try out the new promotion option. Some of my author friends asked how it went, so I thought I’d write up some of my takeaways. Continue reading What I Learned From My Amazon Kindle Countdown Promotion