Ebooks - The Afterlife of Short Stories?

[cloudscudding]

I'm running an ebook experiment with one of my previously published stories. It was first published in Jim Baen's Universe and the issue it was published in is still available to buy through their website. It's about 12,000 words, so the non-exclusive reprint markets were limited. I've sent it around to all of them

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[skylarker]

Hi! This is very much what I did when, after writing a handful of related short stories, one of them sold to a good market, but the others did not, and I couldn't find alternate markets for stories of that particular cross-genre type and length. I compiled three stories into a collection titled 'Three Wishes.' I put it up on Smashwords and Amazon (and made a POD version available via Lulu). In a year or two it made about $30 - with minimal promotion on my part

[cloudscudding]

Thanks!

Did you notice a higher level in sales in KDP Select once the initial spike had gone down?

Um...could I get that list?

And yeah, sounds like a lot of the benefit to the free is that then there are other things to buy. Though I like that there's actually a bump in sales afterward.

[skylarker]

Sales before and after the promotional spike are pretty rare, given how unknown a writer I am

[cloudscudding]

Gotcha--and thanks for all the links!