My Experiment With ePublishing - Lynne Garner
In October 2011 I published my first eBook, Anansi TheTrickster Spider (Volume One) . I quickly (in publishing terms) followed this with Anansi The Trickster Spider (Volume Two) in April 2012. As this was an experiment I decided to check sales on a daily basis, which I've done for the last two years. Now I'm not one for numbers but there are a couple of things I've been able to surmise from these numbers and I wanted to share them with you. One: Neither volume tends sell over the weekend but sales do increase slightly on a Thursday and Friday. Two: I used to use social media especially Twitter on a daily basis as a marketing tool. However during the summer of 2012 I didn't have time to tweet and discovered sales didn't drop. Three: In a bid to boost sales we had a website built ( AnansiSpider ) in the last quarter of 2012. It contains free PDF downloads that are aimed at parents, organisers of after school clubs and educators. Although sales ha...