Same here. I don't see the ad button on my Select titles, and I'm kind of glad.Elizabeth Ann West said:I do not have this option on my last title that is in KDP Select. However, I know where the Amazon ad network lives if I wanted to go buy CPC ads for my book. My issue is why am I going to pay a company that already takes a 30% cut of my product's sale additional monies to advertise my book on their site? Something is fundamentally wrong with that system. I think I will stick with my plans of building my own following.
Interesting. I wonder how they selected the people to offer it to then. Maybe those who have most of their titles in Select and use the free promotions often? I wouldn't have known about it until I went to set a free promotion today.Mark Dawson said:
I get that argument. My rationale is to test it out to see what it is like and I think it could be a boost for more exposure for my backlist. I also hope that it can have massive trickle down effect since it is part one of a serial that I'm using it on.Elizabeth Ann West said:I do not have this option on my last title that is in KDP Select. However, I know where the Amazon ad network lives if I wanted to go buy CPC ads for my book. My issue is why am I going to pay a company that already takes a 30% cut of my product's sale additional monies to advertise my book on their site? Something is fundamentally wrong with that system. I think I will stick with my plans of building my own following.
It let me set up two of them for a test run. I picked two different books, offered limited funds, and then picked two different options for who to target (for experimentation purposes). I figure it's worth a shot. They okayed my advertising options within about fifteen minutes each, and they start tomorrow, so I'm mildly curious. If it doesn't work, I'm only out a couple hundred bucks. If it does, it could be a really good thing. I'm just checking it out now. I have no idea of knowing if it will be good or bad at this point.Cherise Kelley said:I see it now, but when I click on it, I get:
Oops! The page you requested is currently unavailable.
LOL!
As the minimum? Uh, no thanks. Let's see, I get a dollar and some change for a book borrowed in Select. I'd have to have at least 80 borrows before I even get in the black. Sure, I might get some sales too, but I bet KU subscribers are targeted since the books are in Select.
I think, like everything else, it's going to be a learning process. They might not work. I have no idea if they will. I'm willing to try. Why not? I'm just going to play around with them for a few weeks and see what happens.Phoenix Sullivan said:Ads booked by beta users have been showing up on every ebook product page for the last 6 months.
They appear on the amazon.com site just under the 'Send a Sample' box on the right side of the page.
That said, the beta runs I've been tracking for the past 6 months appear to be rather ineffectual. I didn't purchase any during the beta run and likely won't purchase unless they tweak them into something useful.
You have to commit $100, but if you don't get the clicks within the specified time, you don't have to pay - your credit card won't be charged. I didn't run any of the KDP Select ads, but I did run CPC ads with Amazon Marketing Services last spring. Out of my $100 budget that I really wanted to spend, I was only able to get like $10 worth of clicks. I was only charged the 10 bucks.
