This will be the third day that the book is free. Under the Amazon KDP Select program, I can have up to five days of free promos. So two more days after this -- one will be on Father's Day (June 17) and one more that I have to schedule depending on whether I get a parcel in SL9B or not.
Here's the shortened link: http://buy.LoveLikeDimSum.com
I've been getting very nice reviews in Amazon and very good feedback in IMs and email. And it's very heartwarming that the book is touching people and making a difference.
Soon, I'm going to start to do events to bring the community together. I've already started the weekly email newsletter for people who subscribed to the mailing list on the book website. But that's just the start.
Lots of exciting things I want to set up. :D
"Your words are like chocolate"
The first day of the book on Amazon and I'm getting two extremes of feedback.
From friends and colleagues that I notified today, I got very good feedback, even with just the sample pages. Juju said something wonderful that I had to ask her permission if I could quote her. She said, "Your words are like chocolate." She couldn't stop reading until she got to the end of the sample pages.
However, later in the day, I noticed a one-star review. I finally read it and it was very harsh, very mean-spirited, and very uninformed. Right off the bat, the guy(?) accused me of justifying cheating on my spouse. Ermmm, what spouse? One of the earlier chapters talks about my divorce and my choice to remain single afterwards. And that chapter is part of the sample pages, which he obviously didn't read.
Then he ends by equating pricing with being an author. Last I heard, pricing is a business skill, not a writing skill. And even the best pricing experts have difficulty assigning prices with confidence. I took marketing classes from one of those pricing experts, who was well-respected in the industry. Even he would not quote you a specific price. It's not simple math. On top of the math, there's another layer of art and psychology. And if he *did* give you a price range, it would be after a significant amount of market research and testing. How many indie authors could afford that?
Most people think that it's all about getting the lowest price. That philosophy works with commodities, where the quality of the products doesn't matter, nor do the skill and creativity that went into it. Do we now equate e-books with pork bellies? Are we saying that the value of a book is only based on the materials it's published on? So, if a book is published in digital signals of 1's and 0's, is it automatically worth less than another book published on dead trees, regardless of the content?
Yes, there are a lot of $0.99 e-books out there. There are also a lot that are more expensive than my book's price. Pricing is closely related to branding. Do I want to brand myself as just another run-of-the-mill $0.99 e-book author out there? I think I am offering something more valuable in this book. Certainly, I'm biased when I say this is *not* a run-of-the-mill book. But so far, the people who actually read the sample pages gave very good feedback.
So I'll let the book speak for itself.
From friends and colleagues that I notified today, I got very good feedback, even with just the sample pages. Juju said something wonderful that I had to ask her permission if I could quote her. She said, "Your words are like chocolate." She couldn't stop reading until she got to the end of the sample pages.
However, later in the day, I noticed a one-star review. I finally read it and it was very harsh, very mean-spirited, and very uninformed. Right off the bat, the guy(?) accused me of justifying cheating on my spouse. Ermmm, what spouse? One of the earlier chapters talks about my divorce and my choice to remain single afterwards. And that chapter is part of the sample pages, which he obviously didn't read.
Then he ends by equating pricing with being an author. Last I heard, pricing is a business skill, not a writing skill. And even the best pricing experts have difficulty assigning prices with confidence. I took marketing classes from one of those pricing experts, who was well-respected in the industry. Even he would not quote you a specific price. It's not simple math. On top of the math, there's another layer of art and psychology. And if he *did* give you a price range, it would be after a significant amount of market research and testing. How many indie authors could afford that?
Most people think that it's all about getting the lowest price. That philosophy works with commodities, where the quality of the products doesn't matter, nor do the skill and creativity that went into it. Do we now equate e-books with pork bellies? Are we saying that the value of a book is only based on the materials it's published on? So, if a book is published in digital signals of 1's and 0's, is it automatically worth less than another book published on dead trees, regardless of the content?
Yes, there are a lot of $0.99 e-books out there. There are also a lot that are more expensive than my book's price. Pricing is closely related to branding. Do I want to brand myself as just another run-of-the-mill $0.99 e-book author out there? I think I am offering something more valuable in this book. Certainly, I'm biased when I say this is *not* a run-of-the-mill book. But so far, the people who actually read the sample pages gave very good feedback.
So I'll let the book speak for itself.
GO!!! We are live!
The book "Love, Like Dim Sum" is live on Amazon!
And you can find the book trailer here.
More later. Got lots of people to notify. :D
And you can find the book trailer here.
More later. Got lots of people to notify. :D
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