Mike Fook Books – Ebooks | Fiction Thrillers | WTF

It’s possible, even probable if you have a bunch of fiction books at Amazon, to sell a couple thousand books each day for free.

Amazon counts free books downloaded as sold.

Why you would want to do that is to get your sales rank to climb. How you can do that – is enroll in the Kindle Select (KS) and mark your books “free” for up to 5 days per month I think it is. Maybe it’s 5 days per 3 months (one term in the KS program).

I have a book that “sold” 350 copies already today, and it’s now at the top of a couple of categories in Kindle. Pretty cool. This helps because more people will see the book once it goes back to paid. Most authors in the game, and in the know, are OK with this arrangement – giving away hundreds or thousands of ebooks – to just sell more. It’s not like there is a shortage of buyers at Amazon. KS is exclusive – meaning, if your book is enrolled there you can’t be selling it anywhere else. That means your own site too! Ridiculous – right?

So, I am trying this Kindle Select program – and today my one book is free. Before that I had 3 “borrows” in the program – which probably works out to a commission of $4.50 extra I’d not have seen had I not joined.

Problem is – if I had put this book at Smashwords – where it goes to Nook, Apple’s iBook store, Sony, and Kobo – I’d have sold more than 3 books.

So, still a work in progress and we’ll see if this gets me anywhere. I doubt it will beat going with the other channels. The idea that the KS program is exclusive – really sucks.

Maybe it will pick up steam – let’s see…

I’m currently at work on a couple different series of books. My mind is scattered – and yet I’m usually able to create something daily because I’m intent on “Kicking Life’s Ass! (new book).

Mike Fook’s Projects:

“Kicking _____ Ass” book series (Kicking Fat’s Ass!, Kicking Smoking’s Ass!, Kicking Alcohol’s Ass!, Kicking Aging’s Ass!)

• These books will be available here at MikeFook.com and probably at AskFook.com, Amazon, Apple, Sony.
• Kicking Smoking’s Ass! – done
• Kicking Fat’s Ass!
• Kicking Life’s Ass! – nearly finished

Thailand Series (Cleansed, The Ultimate Guide to Teaching English in Thailand)

• These books can be found at ThailandeBooks.com.
• Cleansed – vigilante fiction novel
• The Ultimate Guide to Teaching English in Thailand
• Moving to Thailand – Your 2nd Life Begins
• Numerous other books written under pseudonyms

Fiction (Cleansed, Collecther)

• These books will be here at MikeFook.com

Non-Fiction (The Givens, Bio)

Write ebooks at AsiaBlackbooks.com and get a healthy margin – about 400% of what BangkokBooks or some other paperback publisher will give you per sale.

Why publish ebooks instead of aiming for a paperback book?

1. Ebooks are a guaranteed product. You don’t have squat if you try to publish a paperback book and fail you have wasted time and effort, and a blow to your ego. Publish an ebook – it’s a done deal. See if it sells. Some ebooks sell WAY more than paperbacks. I gave away a Thailand ebook and guess how many copies have gone already? 132,000+. No joke. Ebooks are hot if the subject is right. Create something compelling about Thailand – and get rolling. You could make serious money and quit your teaching job.

2. Write your ebook as you wish. You edit. You format it as you like. You include photos you like. Nobody edits it for you. The buck stops with you.

3. You need not waste a year of time shopping your ebook around to agents. What a waste of time. You could have been selling your Thailand ebook for a year that you just wasted.

4. Idea. Write. Edit. Format. Publish ebook. Make money.

5. Get paid $5 to $10 per ebook copy sold, not 50 cents to $1.50 per copy with a paperback book.

6. Save trees.

If you are an aspiring or accomplished writer and you want to release your next book(s) in ebook format that can be read on IPhone, IPod Touch, Blackberry, Palm Pilot, Kindle, Nook, Sony eReaders, and any other ereaders in existence – contact me.

Mike Fook
MikeFook@gmail.com

AsiaBlackBooks.com will publish all Mike Fook’s ebooks, and if it ever comes to this – paperback books, but I think we’re not going there anytime soon.

Ebooks are a really fun way to write. I write as I wish. I maintain all rights to my digital ebooks. I control all profits. I make $9.95, not a dollar and some change as is the usual arrangement for paperback books that are published by a traditional publisher.

Ebooks are the future and the way I’ll be read.

Check out Asia Black Books (ebooks) and see what you think. Many titles will be showing up over the next few days, weeks and months.

Cheers.

MF

Here are some Thailand ebooks you can either download for free or pay a small fee to download and own.

Cleansed: Secret Crimes? Secret Retribution. – Author Mike Fook’s groundbreaking vigilante fiction novel about a secret group in Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand that is destroying childrens’ lives. Full length novel with outstanding reviews.

link – CLEANSED