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My novel -- in English http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI and Spanish http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1EU1Q0

Sells a couple Kindle copies per week. In terms of actual income, it's negligible. The feedback has been unanimously positive, so my problem is to get it in the hands of as many people as I can. Therefore, if you want the epub/mobi files, just message me (see bio) and I'll be happy to send them :)

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You may want to follow how self published author of Wool, Hugh Howey has sold his books on amazon.

He broke each novel into a four or five book series and sold each book for a dollar. He also made sure to schedule the releases every two to three months. (agile-writing?)

He makes six figures a month on most months [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/07/tech/mobile/kindle-direct-...

Ooh, interesting. I'll think about that. But my main sticking point is actually marketing... I could give away part 1/4 and sell parts 3 to 4 for $1, but I'd still need to get part 1 to a lot of people somehow. And that's what I'm not good at :(

You may consider pricing it higher. I have seen shorts i.e 40-50 page books at 2.99

Totally agree. Always consider increasing your price. If people find it valuable, they'll still buy it:)

Amazon KDP has different revenue splits based on price. I think 2.99 is the minimum price for the (much) larger split, which is why so many writers price their books at 2.99.

Which version of the novel do you prefer ?

I originally wrote it in Spanish, my native language. My English is OK, but probably not as good as my Spanish, especially not when writing something that needs to "read nice" (as opposed to, say, technical articles).

I started translating it myself but the progress was too slow. I hired a translator, who was a native English speaker. The result is OK but not great -- in the end I could have done an equally good job. So I'll probably be writing the sequel in English.

To answer your question -- I believe the original Spanish version is slightly better.

That's the one I'm going to read then. Cheers.

Cool! Just bought it. And I agree, you should try raising the price! =)

Thank you! Given there's some consensus, I'll consider raising the price. I set it at the minimum, I think, to make it as widely read as possible (I'd set it permanently free if Amazon allowed it). But maybe this is creating a perception of lower value and making people not read it :(

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