Good info there. Thanks. My question: What about the length of a book?
Did BookBub or Amazon have any restrictions there? For example, suppose your book had been only 50 pages long. Would either outfit still have been interested?
I ask this because I read somewhere that if a novel is less than a certain number of pages, publishers would not be interested. I think the number was 250, but I can’t be sure of that.
Book length is important. There are a few interesting categories I have not explored: Low-content books, for example, are books in which you might write. Calendar planners or diaries or the like, those would be examples.
I’m sure there is a category for ‘thin books’ but I don’t know much about it.
When I wrote, I simply followed standard length guidelines. My work is actually a little sparse at 60,000+ words but it is an acceptable number. Sci-fi usually goes 90,000+.
Bookbub does a teaser initial offer. They aren’t free if more promotion is desired to be bought, and that’s how they make money so more are often bought. $100s per promotional thing.
Eventual money is from audio books in other languages, the downside of Select.