Kindle Publishing Myths Which Kill Sales

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about certain myths floating around the Kindle publishing community.

Including things taught in certain outdated courses.

Here are just a few of them

No one reads book descriptions
Your book title has to be stuffed with keywords in order to get any sales
Free book downloads are important for your book ranking
You can’t compete in niches like weight loss/self help/make money online
There’s no point in building an email list for your books, or trying to build a brand using Kindle publishing
You can’t use self publishing on Amazon as lead generation
Your book has to be at least 20,000 words long or customers will leave 1 star reviews
All paid advertising for Kindle books is a waste of time
You should always price your paperback books at $9.99 because no one buys any book in double figures
Number of reviews on a book are the only thing that determines sales
Kindle publishing died back in 2014
Kindle Unlimited page reads matter for non-fiction books
You can’t use your books as part of any affiliate marketing campaign
Building an ARC team is impossible and a complete waste of time
Self publishing books is only for authors who failed at getting their books published the “traditional way”

That’s just 15, I could probably think of another 50 off the top of my head.

But for the sake of brevity, I won’t.

Believing just one or two of these is a surefire way to impact sales.

Believing multiple ones can make or break your self publishing business.

Because trust me, I’ve seen even experienced publishers continue to believe these for far too long.

So if you’d like to see how to do things the right way, using time-tested and long-term orientated methods.

Then check out http://doubleyourkindlesales.com for the full details

Oliver

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