Making your book FREE on Kindle
I would say ‘what a joke.’ It is idiotic how KINDLE treat authors who wish to give their books away. How hard can it be and why is it so hard to do this with Kindle?
Why is it so hard?
I have no bloody idea. They could make it simple like Smashwords, Google Play and Draft to Digital. But nope they want to confuse you and make it as hard as possible to put your book up for FREE. I am sure they just have it in for Indie Authors. I can’t see Traditional Publishers jumping through the same hoops we have to.
So what to do?
I remember back to publishing the ‘Awethology’ anthologies in Oct 2015. Bit of a nightmare having to publish early on another sight so I could get the books up for FREE on KINDLE on the right date. First they did a couple of countries, then i had authors email me saying it wasn’t FREE in their country yet. It took a while to sort out. I have now done this a few times and another author gave me an easy way to get it sorted faster.
Join Draft to Digital or Smashwords who both distribute to APPLE. Once APPLE have accepted the FREE eBook (They let you know on Draft to Digital) Then you go and click on the link and copy it into a document about ten times. Next you find out which countries APPLE Cover and change the initals at the end of the link. eg. uk is England, ca is Canada. Once you have them all save the document and you can use these links to send to Kindle to get them to make your book FREE
Simple. Just not as simple as Smashwords and Draft to Digital…Even Google Play will put them up for FREE without the nonsense Kindle insists on.
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Really interesting that. They do make things very difficult. So thanks for the advice.