{"id":239,"date":"2013-12-08T21:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2013-12-08T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:50:58","slug":"the-grand-experiment-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Experiment: FAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Alpha and the Omega<\/i> ebook is <a title=\"The Alpha And The Omega\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?page_id=10\">available again on non-Kindle formats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As explained in my previous \u201c<a title=\"The Alpha And The Omega ebook free to Amazon Prime members!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=150\">The Alpha And The Omega ebook free to Amazon Prime members!<\/a>\u201d post, I embarked on a Grand Experiment to sell the <i>A&amp;O<\/i> ebook <i>exclusively<\/i> on Kindle, in exchange for it to be available to Amazon Prime members for free (through the <a href=\"https:\/\/kdp.amazon.com\/select\">Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)<\/a> Select program).\u00a0 I hoped the lure of free ebooks would gain me new readers.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a year later, I sold roughly the same amount of Kindle <i>A&amp;O<\/i> ebooks as I did the previous year, while no one borrowed it for free. \u00a0So I ended up losing out on non-Kindle <i>A&amp;O<\/i> ebook sales for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to e-say, I won\u2019t be enrolling <a title=\"Goddess\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?page_id=163\"><i>Goddess<\/i> <\/a>or any of my future ebooks in KDP Select.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpha and the Omega ebook is available again on non-Kindle formats.<\/p>\n<p>As explained in my previous \u201cThe Alpha And The Omega ebook free to Amazon Prime members!\u201d post, I embarked on a Grand Experiment to sell the A&amp;O ebook exclusively on Kindle, in exchange for it to be available to Amazon Prime members for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}