Just downloaded on KU. Looking forward to the read.
Yeah, I guess that was all pretty jargonish.
Here's the background - the KENP is what Amazon calls the "Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count" - it's the number they use when the calculate earnings based on pages read in your book if it is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
I was initially trying to figure out the difference between the page count that appears on a product page like this one - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016AX0TR4 - and that KENP number Amazon uses for payment.
The problem I was seeing was that the page count that was reported on the product page was running about half of the KENP total that is reported in the author's Kindle Direct Publishing reports when logged in to Amazon.
On the one hand, the higher KENP number is great because that's what Kindle Unlimited payments are based on. But the low number on the product page could be a big negative, because someone sees that a story for sale at .99 only has 11 pages according to Amazon and it doesn't seem like a great value. Unless it has a lot of excellent reviews.
So I was trying to determine if the discrepancy was due to page formatting prior to uploading to Amazon or some other unknown issue.
Word count seems to be the best way to determine total KENP count as calculated by Amazon. On average, my work has all been running between 200 and 220 words per KENP page.
I've found some formatting situations within the uploaded file may have an impact on the page count on the *product* page, but don't seem to have any impact on the KENP count.I'm uploading some slightly modified files today to see if the product page count changes, and will report any difference in a slightly less jargon and acronym filled post.
In college I enrolled in several creative writing classes. Every one of them was taught by an instructor who required the purchase of his or her course manuscript about how to become a published author. This was when vanity presses where prohibitively expensive, so when someone said they wanted to become an author, they meant selling their manuscript to a traditional publisher or magazine.
By the third class like this, I realized the only thing these instructors had ever published were these how-to books on the basics of writing and the theory of how to get published.
That's not to say that there wasn't some solid advice in there, but I later found that the best advice came from genre authors themselves, from editors, or from agents working in well estabilished agencies writing about the dos and don'ts of getting great writing noticed.
One of my teachers primary claims to fame was that she had once had Clive Cussler as a student. She brought him up several times during the semester, told the story about how the clever way he got his agent, and became quite successful, I guess to give herself more credibility. But nothing about her story really had anything to do with her interaction with him as a teacher. Just that he attended her class.
After I published a few short stories in genre magazines, I contacted her for advice on finding an agent for a novel I'd completed. She never replied. I guess she got my thirty bucks for her creative writing textbook and that was that.
I imagine her now as one of the people writing those "Sell a Million Books" books on Amazon.
This post was edited by Christopher Holliday at December 7, 2015 8:48 AM PST
I've tried GenrePulse with solid results.
I promote a title during the free 5 day KDP Select period, and the app campaign ( $15 ) usually results in a few hundred downloads. From those downloads, I usually see a spike in sales and Kindle Unlimited reads in other titles. At the moment, I only have three up, so it's difficult to see how broad the results are, but as more go up I should have better intel.
I also plan on testing the new GenrePulse genre specific mailings ( $17 ). That, and the free advertising here on Marketlist are generating a consistent stream of clicks and sales.
Hi Fran,
My inbox is constantly e-bombed with ads from AWAI. The premise looks like a model that is often used for marketing other home businesses, most notably MLM companies - you sign up, pay a monthly fee for access to their special content, then pay upcharges for additional courses or insider's guides.
I have yet to meet a writer who has used AWAI's services and reported any success. Well, to be perfectly honest, I've yet to meet a writer who has signed up for AWAI, period.
Google results show that they have been promoting their six-figure copywriting program since at least 2008. They are tied in with Writers Digest, at least it seems of you subscribe to any info for WD you start getting the AWAI emails.
Threads on the program abound. Most are asking the same question you did, but nowhere do I see any solid answers from writers with any verifiable credentials. To stay in business this long, someone must be buying the program.
They do have an A+ rating with the BBB, which surprised me and would seem to indicate they are not generating many complaints. http://www.bbb.org/south-east-florida/business-reviews/desktop-publishing/american-writers-and-artists-in-delray-beach-fl-26000012
Just downloaded on KU. Looking forward to the read.
Yeah, I guess that was all pretty jargonish.
Here's the background - the KENP is what Amazon calls the "Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count" - it's the number they use when the calculate earnings based on pages read in your book if it is enrolled in
... moreYeah, I guess that was all pretty jargonish.
Here's the background - the KENP is what Amazon calls the "Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count" - it's the number they use when the calculate earnings based on pages read in your book if it is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
I was initially trying to figure out the difference between the page count that appears on a product page like this one - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016AX0TR4 - and that KENP number Amazon uses for payment.
The problem I was seeing was that the page count that was reported on the product page was running about half of the KENP total that is reported in the author's Kindle Direct Publishing reports when logged in to Amazon.
On the one hand, the higher KENP number is great because that's what Kindle Unlimited payments are based on. But the low number on the product page could be a big negative, because someone sees that a story for sale at .99 only has 11 pages according to Amazon and it doesn't seem like a great value. Unless it has a lot...
lessIn college I enrolled in several creative writing classes. Every one of them was taught by an instructor who required the purchase of his or her course manuscript about how to become a published author. This was when vanity presses where prohibitively
... moreIn college I enrolled in several creative writing classes. Every one of them was taught by an instructor who required the purchase of his or her course manuscript about how to become a published author. This was when vanity presses where prohibitively expensive, so when someone said they wanted to become an author, they meant selling their manuscript to a traditional publisher or magazine.
By the third class like this, I realized the only thing these instructors had ever published were these how-to books on the basics of writing and the theory of how to get published.
That's not to say...
lessI've tried GenrePulse with solid results.
I promote a title during the free 5 day KDP Select period, and the app campaign ( $15 ) usually results in a few hundred downloads. From those downloads, I usually see a spike in sales and Kindle Unlimited reads
... moreI've tried GenrePulse with solid results.
I promote a title during the free 5 day KDP Select period, and the app campaign ( $15 ) usually results in a few hundred downloads. From those downloads, I usually see a spike in sales and Kindle Unlimited reads in other titles. At the moment, I only have three up, so it's difficult to see how broad the results are, but as more go up I should have better intel.
I also plan on testing the new GenrePulse genre specific mailings ( $17 ). That, and the free advertising here on Marketlist are generating a consistent stream of clicks and sales.
lessHi Fran,
My inbox is constantly e-bombed with ads from AWAI. The premise looks like a model that is often used for marketing other home businesses, most notably MLM companies - you sign up, pay a monthly fee for access to their special content, then pay
... moreHi Fran,
My inbox is constantly e-bombed with ads from AWAI. The premise looks like a model that is often used for marketing other home businesses, most notably MLM companies - you sign up, pay a monthly fee for access to their special content, then pay upcharges for additional courses or insider's guides.
I have yet to meet a writer who has used AWAI's services and reported any success. Well, to be perfectly honest, I've yet to meet a writer who has signed up for AWAI, period.
Google results show that they have been promoting their six-figure copywriting program since at least 2008. They...
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