I’ve heard of
authors who posted their #Kindle books on Amazon as free and suddenly “sold”
400 copies in a day. Some authors claim sales of their books tripled when they
reduced the cost of their books from $5.99 to $3,99 or $2.99.
What do you think? Are these
anecdotes flukes?
Are there good
statistics on the elasticity of the market for Kindle books? Where’s the
break point at which sales increase? I suspect Amazon knows the answer because
they control one of the databases in the world.
I’d love to hear your opinions or better
yet get references that show actual sales figures. I bet other readers would too.
In any case, the
Kindle versions of my #medical mysteries - Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight and Coming Flu are on sale on Amazon for $2.99 during September.
In #Murder: A New Way
to Lose Weight, physician Linda Almquist is investigating an ambitious
"diet doctor" who is endangering the lives of his #obese patients and
perhaps eliminating anyone who thwarts his career plans. But Linda could be
wrong. The murders might be
related to something in the past – something involving her boss the Dean. While
Linda fears for her job, the police fear for her life.
In #Coming Flu, epidemiologist Sara
Almquist is trying to stop two killers:
the Philippine flu, which is rapidly wiping out everyone in a walled
community in New Mexico, and a drug kingpin determined to break out of the
quarantined enclave.
