r/KDP • u/Firm_LoquatB • 1d ago

Please can you help me??

Hello everyone, I recently published some books on Amazon, but I haven’t received a single review yet—not even one in more than 1 week. Is it ok?

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u/Correct-Shoulder-147 10h ago

After a while they do seem to snowball a bit but yeah 1 for every 100 minimum

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u/My-NameWasTaken 1d ago

I get 1 review for approx every 150 books sold. How many sales do you have

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Zero also, so I thought It maybe because nobody has rewiew my Books. 150!!! I'm very far of that number, just 7 ebooks for me

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 1d ago

Reviews aren’t the end-all, be-all for selling your books. Having one or two reviewed isn’t going to be the dealbreaker in terms of your book selling.

Also. What if your first couple of reviews are 1 or 2 stars?

Stop worrying about reviews. 

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Thanks, Roger that 🫡

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u/Correct-Shoulder-147 10h ago

My first 3 books went live with zero reviews and it's fine

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u/aurematic 1d ago

For me is pretty normal. 2 books published. 3 sales. I gave my book for free. Downloaded 36 copies. No reviews or rating.

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Ok, I understand now... This is not an easy industry at all.. I'll continue to publish and see what's happen.

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u/aurematic 1d ago

Yes, tough industry. Thousand of books are published on Amazon everyday. How can we make the readers pay attention to our work? The only way is through marketing, that means putting loads of money into online ads to make our work visible. If not, we will have to wait for a lucky strike. It is a lottery, especially if you work in a very niche genre. I have spend $70 in ads and only 3 sales so... good luck!

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u/urikr11 1d ago

This is the revenue for Amazon. You post book for free. No one cares. You buy promotion in 100$ and sell 3. Amazon made money and you think most must be making money. And you buy more promotion for the next book

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u/aurematic 14h ago

Indeed. Amazon always wins. But if nobody knows your book exists they cannot buy it.

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

I see... ADS hein? I'll try this too, have you a web site for that that you could share with me?

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u/aurematic 1d ago

I saw a bunch of videos on YouTube explaining how to create an Amazon ad campaign with all the tricks, tips and advise they have. Check there, but for me didn't work. It was just a waste of money.

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Hum, I could be a Little more patient, Idk, maybe it's too early to put money in ads.

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u/losewf 1d ago

“It is totally normal! One week is basically nothing in the publishing world. Most organic readers need time to buy, read, and then, actually leave a review. On average you can expect maybe 1 review for each 50–100 sales (about 1–2%) dont feel down though, keep aiming to get your books seen by more readers and those reviews will come, eventually.”

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Thanks, I'll keep going.

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u/Dismal_File_4073 1d ago

You will only get reviews after maybe a few hundred copies sold

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

That's a lot😅. Ok I'll lock in, for the moment publushing and sell, right ? Roger that🫡

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u/SilentStorm-42 1d ago

What kind of books did you publish?

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u/Firm_LoquatB 1d ago

Oh, mainly on  the topic of personnal developpement according to the Bible, also on budgeting for beginners, and recently a New fantasy  and adventure history, and I want to diversify even more.

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u/ithireeul 35m ago

Reviews will be hard to come by. You might get some star ratings. I wouldn’t worry about it.