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Bestselling teen author Melissa Marr has been dabbling in the territory of promoting her other books by offering free promotions in the Kindle Store, and it has been working very well for her:
- Her story Stopping Time (Part One), currently free, is #15 on the Kindle Store bestseller list as I type this, and Stopping Time (Part Two) is free for pre-order to be released on Tuesday.
- Her Wicked Lovely series of three other books, Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, and Fragile Eternity are each in the top 1 percent of all books on the Kindle Store bestseller lists.
- Unbound, the HarperCollins anthology in paperback and Kindle edition that features Marr along with Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake, is currently the #1 title on the Kindle Store’s fantasy anthology list.
Today, as readers await the release of Radiant Shadows, the fourth book in her Wicked Lovely series, the series debut novel Wicked Lovely has been set up as a free pre-order “with free bonus material” in the Kindle Store, *although as I type these words the release date is set for April 6 and the Kindle price has yet to be reduced from 99 cents to free:
With publishers spending way too much time trying to figure out how to raise ebook prices and/or suppress Kindle sales in order to keep hardcovers on life support, it’s nice to see Marr’s HarperCollins marketing staff figuring out and doing what it takes to make her next novel a lucrative bestseller.
Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely)
*(Ordinarily in such cases Amazon will lower the pre-order price to zero and honor the zero-price for all pre-orders in accordance with the pre-order price guarantee in spite of the fact that there is no reference to a pre-order price guarantee on the Kindlepage, but if you don’t want to risk the 99 cents, you should find the pre-order page price adjusted down to zero soon.)