The Unseen Things series now available on Google Play…
Yesterday I decided to take a shot at adding the series to Google Play. You can view the listings here: https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Duane+L.+Martin
Again, the first book, Origins is free everywhere including the official site. The only place it isn’t is on Amazon because they’re a pain in the ass about their pricing, so I’ve changed it to .99 cents there and I’m trying to get people to report price matches so they’ll knock it down to free on there as well.
A quick thought on Google Play. Much like Amazon, they have a space for the series title and the volume number, and yet they make no mention of it at all in the listings. At least Amazon is listing the series now next to the title, but even there it’s not linked to a full list of the series titles. I really don’t know what these retail sites are thinking. It should be absolutely elementary to have the title the series and the volume number all on the listing for any given book for which a volume and series number apply. Honestly, the only site I’ve seen doing this so far is Smashwords, so they’ve got it right. Another problem with Google Play are the reports. You can’t view them online. You have to download a CSV file to view. How basic would it be to have that info viewable on a nice reports page? I mean they’re Google! What the hell?
I’m going with Amazon KDP Select. What that means for the series…
Ok, I’ve decided to go with Amazon KDP Select instead of publishing through Smashwords distribution channels and Google Play. I was getting no sales whatsoever from the other retail sites and Google Play was just a joke. I have to have the books enrolled for 90 days, so after that I’ll decide what I want to do from there. Unfortunately, I can’t have the books for sale here on the website either as long as I’m enrolled in the program, but since I haven’t sold anything from here other than a few free copies, I don’t think that’ll matter too much. I need to get the series out there and this seems like about the best way to do it, for right now anyway.
So that’s what’s going on at the moment. If you still want to take advantage of the free copy of the first book after they’re no longer available here or on any of the other sites, I will be running a three day freebie after I get everything into select. Aside from that you can simply contact me through the contact page here if you want a free copy and I’d be happy to mail it to you.
Yes it’s a hassle and no I’m not sure it’s the right move, but I’ve read enough positive results that people have had that I’m willing to give it a shot. Like I said, I can always re-evaluate the situation in 90 days time.
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