Amazon's Daily Deal (and why it's useless)
Sharing my strategy for finding Kindle books on sale
Navigating Amazon Book Deals
Amazon Book Sale (ebooks for Kindle)
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Venting a bit.
I had a Daily Deal today. Surprise, the book, being a Sci-fi and Fantasy adventure, did not show up anywhere in those genres for Daily Deals. Apparently, people just have to wade through 200+ pages of Daily Deals to find your book. Looking for Fantasy? Enjoy sifting past romance and sports books!
I spent an hour on chat with the KDP support team asking why would anyone agree to their Daily Deal when just dropping the price and announcing it on Facebook would have better results?
Have any of you had a better result?
Gotta say, I'm even more enraged with Amazon than normal at the moment. Support guy actually had the gall to send a screenshot of my book at a discount as proof it was in fact a Daily Deal... because he entered the exact title in search. My reply (perhaps a bit spicy) was that yes, that's how people look up a fucking book. But this "promotion" they were running? If your book is impossible to find in Daily Deals then it's an utter waste of time.
Rant over. Stepping off soap box (feet nice and clean)
I just saw a post about a new Kindle user seeing higher prices for kindle books and thought I would share my method! Not only can you sign up for Bookbub or a similar site (daily emails with on-sale ebooks for categories you're interested in), this is the method that works best for me.
I add any ebook that interests me to a wishlist on Amazon. Once a day, I go to Lists then check the "Deals" category and the "Price dropped" category. They typically do sale refreshes at the beginning of the week, the beginning of each month, then there are random books that will go on sale periodically. I just check each morning and scroll through and grab which ones I want or remove them from my wishlist if they go on sale then I end up not wanting it enough to actually buy it. Most of my ebooks I get for $2.99 or less. You can also navigate to Kindle > Kindle Books > Deals, but I mostly just do my wishlist because it works the best.
Happy hunting!