You have to let your prospective customers know about the benefits of Matchbook. Unless you find an effective way to take advantage of a little marketing potential. If you sell mostly Kindle e-books, you probably won’t see as many Matchbook sales. You must have a print edition of the same Kindle e-book, and the two editions must be linked together on the Amazon product page for this to work.īut many authors don’t see many Matchbook sales.įor one, I sell many more print books than Kindle e-books. KDP authors can check a box on the second page of the publishing process to enroll in the Matchbook program. The idea is to entice customers to buy both editions, and to offer savings to customers who do so. The Amazon Kindle Matchbook program allows publishers to offer the Kindle edition at a discounted price to customers who have already purchased the print edition.
They are slightly easier to spot on the product page than they once were, yet they still aren’t too visible there.īut after you buy the print book, now the Matchbook offer is highly visible. This way, the Matchbook offers are getting a little exposure. It informed me that since I had purchased the print edition, I could add the Kindle edition for $1.99. Note: As of October, 2019, the Matchbook program has been canceled.Īfter I purchased some print books today on Amazon, I found a nice surprise.Īt the top of the next page was a large Matchbook offer, large enough to include the thumbnail of one of the books and a message.
#KINDLE MATCHBOOK FREE#
If you’ve bought any of my books in print and wish to take advantage of the free offer while it lasts, here’s your chance.Amazon, Kindle, and Fire and all related logos are trademarks of, Inc. I think there’s something wrong about charging twice for the same content, depending on the medium, and I loved the ability to offer my readers something back. It just doesn’t seem to be something people are interested in.” “I think I’ve given away maybe 20 copies in all those years. I’ve had all my books enrolled in Matchbook since the beginning, allowing people to get a free ebook copy of any paperback they buy,” Shawn Inmon wrote on FB. My personal experience agrees with The Digital Reader’s claim that most authors have never heard of the program, and the ones that do have books in the program report that there was little interest from readers. However, only a handful of people take advantage of the free offer each month.
#KINDLE MATCHBOOK FOR FREE#
The ebook could be given away for free, or sold for $1.99 or $0.99.Īll of my eBooks are available for free to anyone who’s bought the print edition. Launched in 2013, Kindle Matchbook was a program where authors and publishers had the option of creating ebook and print bundles that combine a Kindle ebook with a print book sold by Amazon. This, despite the fact that all of my books are on the Matchbook program! Strangely enough, I heard the news on The Passive Voice and The Digital Reader instead of Amazon. After retiring Amazon giveaways, Amazon now is ending its Kindle Matchbook program on October 31. This is the third major change announced by Amazon in the last days.
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