Last Updated on April 10, 2025 by Tom Kane
Is selling your indie published books across multiple digital platforms a good thing, or a bad idea?
Indie authors have so many digital platforms to choose from when it comes to selling their books. The problem is, how do we know which is the best for our particular genre(s) and are we going to be swamped by sellers all selling much of the same thing.
It can almost feel like the Street Sellers scene in the 1960s musical, Oliver Twist. Everyone competing to sell their wares by singing and dancing, all at the same time. But instead of milk maids, flower sellers and strawberries for sale, we have indie authors strutting their stuff trying to sell their books. It’s a verbosity of words rather than cacophony of sound… or both.
I’ve always sold my books on Amazon, but found Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) sales suddenly dropped away about three years ago. So, I kept Amazon on, but without using KU and opened an account with Draft2Digital. In the last three years, my Amazon sales have been okay and the same with Draft2Digital. But to me, okay sales isn’t good enough, a bit like Oliver in the opening scene, I want more, but in this case, Oliver wants more books to read!
I’ve decided it’s time to experiment. Over the next week I’m removing all single volume books from Draft2Digital, but leaving The Brittle Sage Trilogy and The Midnight series on both Amazon and Draft2Digital. In that way, I can set the first two books in each as free books, another hook to pull readers in and hopefully sell more in the trilogy or series.
Amazon will have all my books available but only the single titles will be exclusive to KU.
I’ll see how that goes over the next nine months and if there’s any significant change, up or down in terms of sales, I’ll let you know.
Copyright © Tom Kane February 2025
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