Sunday, May 15, 2016

Amazon Kindle Unlimited


I'm a new Amazon Kindle publisher with the *E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* at http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen

There is a program offered to publishers called Kindle Unlimited to which publishers can subscribe. The program allows Amazon readers who pay monthly subscription fees to Amazon to download any book that is in the program free of charge. Publishers are getting paid for the number of pages that were actually read, and the source of such payments is some fund created from the subscription fees.

Amazon makes this program attractive to the publishers saying:
"Here are some examples of how it would work if the fund was $10M and 100,000,000 total pages were read in the month:
The author of a 100 page book that was borrowed and read completely 100 times would earn $1,000 ($10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages)."

Looks good? Pays approximately 10 cents per page read... Of course, I'm in!

Then I started seeing payments like 20 cents on my Amazon reports and thought: what is that? was somebody so unhappy with my text that they stopped reading after 2 pages??? NO!!!

I went digging through Amazon forums and discovered from other authors that in reality payments per page to publishers in the program are about one half of a cent instead of 10 cents!

So, as you already guess, I'm out as soon as my mandatory 3 months in the program to which I signed are over!

If you are a subscriber to Kindle Unlimited, hurry up to download my e-books on international real estate sales free http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen , later on they will be available only for buying...



Tuesday, May 3, 2016

News Release for Real Estate Associations


Here's my simple up-to-the-point News Release about my new publication "E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers" that I'm sending to Real Estate Associations (hoping they'll spread the word among their members):


For Immediate Release:

The new *E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* has been started on Amazon. The E-Series will eventually summarize All-One-Has-to-Know to successfully market and sell real estate to international buyers. Each e-book centers on a particular aspect of marketing and selling properties to international buyers.

All of the already published books of the E-Series are on Olga Kellen’s Amazon Author’s page: http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen . (The new ones will be added in the near future.)

The E-Series so far consists of the following four books:

Book 1. *How to Find the Best Foreign Realtors and Make Your Offer of Cooperation in Sale Irresistible to Them* is a complete guide for marketing and selling international properties with the help of foreign realtors.

Book 2. *How to Efficiently Advertise Your Property for Sale Internationally* is about the option of selling properties by marketing directly to potential foreign buyers and conveys the best cost-effective ways of direct advertising to the general buying public in a foreign country where you want to find a buyer for your property.

Book 3. *How to Sell Real Estate to the Russians* is the expert advice for realtors, developers and private property sellers from all over the world who are looking specifically for the Russian buyers to broaden their buying pool and thus improve their real estate sales.

Book 4. *How to Plan and Budget for Success in International Property Sales* is about creating the most cost-effective marketing plan based on any marketing budget for any property for sale to the foreign real estate buyers.

More e-books on the topic of international real estate sales will be added in the near future to http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen .

One can read these Amazon Kindle e-books on any device (laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPad, etc.) with a free Kindle application that can be downloaded from Amazon for any and all types of devices.

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I know that the text is not up to the standard press release that one sends to media - some parts are omitted by choice as I only want to supply the important information for realtors, not entice somebody into writing an article or something... We'll see how it'll work or will it work;-)