{"id":1672,"date":"2013-08-14T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2016-08-15T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:08:06","slug":"kdp-select-and-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/kdp-select-and-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"KDP select and publishing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1675\" alt=\"marketing-strategy-plan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan-185x185.png 185w, https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan-164x164.png 164w, https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/marketing-strategy-plan-184x184.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Depending were you go on the internet, there are positive and negatives reviews about the Amazon\u2019s KDP select program. I\u2019ve listed my first impressions about the program earlier this year. I think the KDP program is a viable marketing solution \u2013 if used properly. My plan was to utilize it more effectively before I published my latest book \u2013 Barghest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, with ADD, I\u2019m always eager to start my next project. Therefore, I finished Barghest, published it, and then moved on.<\/p>\n<p>This is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing a book takes at least a six-month plan. In my own opinion, it will take at least a year or two to effectively market material successfully. I have a few literally, goals I need to wrap up before I shift focus on the marketing effort. Once that happens, look out world!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime \u2013 Barghest is being offered free at Amazon.com on August 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Just click on the link in the side bar.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Leo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending were you go on the internet, there are positive and negatives reviews about the Amazon\u2019s KDP select program. I\u2019ve listed my first impressions about the program earlier this year. I think the KDP program is a viable marketing solution \u2013 if used properly. My plan was to utilize it more effectively before I published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}