A “Dear Paula” letter from Amazon…
Yes, we’re very good friends.
All jokes aside, it came to me as a reader, not as an author, asking whether I was looking for something in their mystery, thriller and suspense books department, since I visit there often enough. The e-mail continued by saying that if I was, I might be interested in these items:
Say it with me now…free marketing.
What Amazon does for me as an author is one of the reasons I decided to leave the eBook for Best Kept Secrets exclusively with them for the first 90 days. After that, I may decide to also make it available for the Nook and other devices but honestly, I may not. Sales for the Kindle were much, much better than Nook sales after No Mother of Mine was released, more than four times better. In looking at the sales reports now for the past two months, No Mother of Mine is selling double on the Kindle than on the Nook and while that’s a much closer gap to overcome, it may widen again as Amazon continues to market the eBook version of my books while the Nook eBook is not getting similar treatment.