So, I did my 5 day free promo of Fairytales from the Forest ('scuse further shameless promotion) and it went okay. Better than I had expected. It's strange and I'm sure someone might be able to do an analysis of this but the first day does best, then there the second day is a little less, and the third day dips right down and you think, right that's that, but then, it leaps up again and continues until actually after the 5th free day - which I think is to do with time zones...
I've noticed this pattern on other free promotions. What I'm finding now is that stuff I published in 2013 - 2014 doesn't sell. It had sold pretty well in its day but now it's totally gone. I don't know whether that is because that all the people who wanted to read it, read it, or whether Amazon changed its algorithm.
This is perhaps a little paranoid. There was a time when people published books that were a few hundred words and sold them for $.99, while others were publishing 70,000 word novels for $.99. I know Amazon balanced their algorithm to take some account of length but surely you don't get extra promotion from them based on length? I wonder whether you do now, and so short stories are penalised compared with what they were. I'd be interested in knowing.
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