Stone's Kiss and Amazon Rankings.

To be honest, Amazon rankings, promotion, and all that goes with it mystifies me. But according to amazon, my novel, Stone's Kiss has sold 8256 (free) copies since Amazon price matched it, thus making it free.

Unknown to me, Amazon only lets you go as low as $0.99, but will price match if they find it cheaper at another retailer. Which is all well and good, but that's not what I'd set out to do when I made it free at Smashwords. In honor of the release of my MuseItUp Publishing title, Betrayal's Price, I wanted to giveway Stone's Kiss free for a month. One thing I did know was that Smashwords was much slower than Amazon, so about three weeks before I wanted to make my book free I changed the price at Smashwords, thinking that would give them time to distribute all the price changes. And, yes, it did.

About two week later I went to Amazon to make it free only to learn Amazon does not allow you to set a price lower than $0.99. I'd seen books for free there many times, so I knew there must be a way. I just didn't know what it was. Then Amazon did it for me.

Anyways, to make a long story short, I was about to go back and update Smashwords to match Amazon's price when Amazon price-matched and made Stone's Kiss free.

Clear as mud, right?

Yep. And that's why I'm still mystified about Amazon sales rankings, promotion and everything else. LOL.

While I may not be the proper breed for self-publishing, I've certainly found it interesting and don't regret it.

Stone's Kiss

In honor of the release of my MuseItUp Publishing novel, Betrayal's Price, I'm offering Stone's Kiss for free. Find it at Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. It will be available for free at other locations soon. Stay tunes for details.