Giving away some ebooks
OK, I’m giving away a few ebooks.
Last night I jumped into the Amazon Giveaway program and handed out three copies of one of my Kindle mystery stories, Always Such a Quiet Street.
Since the ebook is more than 10,000 words, it’s technically a novelette, not a short story. Or maybe it’s a long story. Whatever the label, I offered to give away three of these guys last night, and readers jumped into the action faster than 100 meter sprinters.
I set up the giveaway as a random choice, which Amazon managed, and put the odds at 1 in 4. In retrospect, I see those odds now as low-hanging fruit. Even at the time, I thought that might be a little too easy, but I wanted to make the offer attractive on my initial giveaway.
With odds at 1 in 4, the giveaway needed 9 to 12 entrants to be valid. It got 11, and 3 of them won the ebook.
The astonishing thing, to me anyhow, was how fast the giveaway went. I set the deadline a little more than three days out, but the giveaway was all over in only 1 hour and 19 minutes. So I learned something for next time.
That brings me to my next giveaway, which is going to start this evening with a different title and different number of ebooks. Oh, and the fruit will be a little higher on the tree, but you knew that was coming.
Keep watching - and reaching for the fruit.