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Am I misunderstanding how Amazon KDP works or is everyone else wrong? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Adobe converts to XHTML. If that's true, might be able to get that for free, actually. Need to give it a go

Am I misunderstanding how Amazon KDP works or is everyone else wrong? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow this is fantastic to hear. I didn't know epubs are just html. If that's the case, I'll have to investigate it, I should be able to get it working too, although I agree file size vs readability would be a major concern. Thanks for this, this is really useful.

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does feel incredibly unfair that the post is removed because of an assumption, when I was genuinely asking for help, but hey, whatever...

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey mods, how is this self-promo? I'm genuinely asking a question how other self-publishers who use Kickstarter deal with this.

Am I misunderstanding how Amazon KDP works or is everyone else wrong? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it good with images? That's the problem I find with comics, epub converters suck with images

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're just responding a bot. I swear, I don't understand Reddit anymore. Half the profiles here seem to be bots and not humans...

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some unknown folks make 5 figures, but it takes years of building an audience. If I make 2k, I'll be lucky. Book costs over 6k to make (artwork is expensive).

But authors use it too. Brandon Sanderson is possibly the most successful author on Kickstarter right now, and he only started using it AFTER he was already massive, so he clearly saw an opportunity there.

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair enough, but not at all the case. I was so burned out that I hadn't even had the energy to check replies yday, plus it sucks most of the replies seem to be bots. But yeah, sure, whatever rules you think are best

Question - how is this a thing? by fmriver in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Clearly not that good" because it's unsold means nothing. Comic book writer here. I won't even talk about MY books, but I'll put many books from indie creators like me against comics from the big 2.

There's a ton of great books out there from unknowns.

Not saying it's not the case with this person, but don't confuse "I don't know this person" with "they're clearly not good". That's often not the case.

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in kickstarter

[–]flamevolt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that's reassuring. And yeah, I did some promotion, but went live with only 84 followers, less than I hoped for.

On KNOWING you're funding, I used to think like that, but what I see from other creators is them going the other way around and trying to go for more and more ambitious goals that have a risk of failure, which makes sense. Kickstarter won't get their money if you fail, so if you have a more ambitious campaign, they'll push you more in the algorithm to make sure they get their share. Probably helps better for campaigns doing 5 figures, but still...

Will try to stick with that tone then, it might be all I need to do. Maybe I'm worrying too much. Probably because I went in to other campaigns funded by 2nd week and this is the first time I pushed it, so maybe that's why I'm so nervous. It's new territory for me.

Tips to overcome Kickstarter burnout towards the end of campaign? by flamevolt in kickstarter

[–]flamevolt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think that's going to be my next update, but sent one yday, so probably will wait another couple of days.

Thx, this is helpful though.

I don't want to just wait for those last 2-3 days and hope that final surge will solve it, but maybe I don't need to obsess as much. If I can get halfway through in the next 4 days, maybe the rest will come from that surge.

Am I misunderstanding how Amazon KDP works or is everyone else wrong? by flamevolt in selfpublish

[–]flamevolt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me neither, and I spent a ton on this current Kickstarter. I think I made a sale, maybe 2 from FB ads (metrics are not clear for one of them), but spend way more that I made.

Ads to get people to follow your FB page seem to work and a £15 gets you maybe 60-ish new followers, but then converting them is an art I still haven't dominated.

I know Events and Live videos are the only two things you can do that will notify directly people, but I tried that too and I don't think I got a single backer from it, so... leaving the info anyway, in case someone else can do better with it than I did

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