Author Jen Meyers

Announcement and a Giveaway!

anywhere BN KoboIn an attempt to gain more exposure, I have decided to make the ebook of Anywhere exclusive to Amazon for three months. That sounds like an oxymoron, right? Make it exclusive to one online vendor for better exposure. Let me explain.

Amazon has created a new promotional opportunity that places books on two additional pages/lists in the store besides the book’s regular page. One is the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library where Prime members can borrow books for free, and the other is the new Kindle Countdown Deals (which you’re going to want to know about if you haven’t heard already—it’s a new place to find limited-time deals on Kindle ebooks). The opportunity to have placement on the Kindle Countdown Deals page is just too great for me to pass up. But the price of being able to do so is exclusivity.

So this week I’ll be pulling the ebook of Anywhere off the shelves of iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. It’s a 90-day commitment, at the end of which I intend to put it back up for sale everywhere. In the meantime, I’m hopeful that this will gain the book some much-needed visibility and help get it into more people’s hands.

For those readers who do not read Kindle ebooks…if you’re willing to take an extra step to get the book, this is how it will work: you can buy the ebook from Amazon, send me an email with the receipt, and I’ll send you the epub file that will work with your Nook/iTunes/Sony/Kobo ereader.

I’m not a fan of exclusivity and want to have the book widely available so anyone can easily find it and get it. But in all honesty the other online stores make it hard for people to just come across my books or have them show up in a search unless you’re searching specifically by title. Not so on Amazon. Their system for finding and recommending books is far more effective at getting ANY book in their store in front of the right readers. And this opportunity to increase ANYWHERE’s visibility on Amazon is simply too great for me to pass up.

THE GIVEAWAY

My first box of Anywhere paperbacks arrived a few days ago, which means signed paperbacks are available in my store (just in time for the holidays, y’all!). To celebrate their arrival, I’m giving away two signed copies—and the contest is International. :-) (*Before you enter, please be aware that Anywhere is VERY different than my Intangible series, and is intended for a more mature audience of ages 17+. Thanks!)

Here’s how you enter:

1. Post about Anywhere on Facebook (with the link, please!) and like my Facebook page (if you’re on Facebook).
2. Tweet about Anywhere (with the link, please!) and follow me on Twitter (if you’re on Twitter).
3. Leave a comment below telling me where you posted, and where YOU’d like to go if you could go ANYWHERE.

—>  The US Link:  http://www.amazon.com/Anywhere-ebook/dp/B00ES1IWVQ  <—

—>  The UK Link:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anywhere-ebook/dp/B00ES1IWVQ  <—

And please SPREAD THE WORD! Contest is open until Saturday November 16th. On Sunday I’ll have a random number generator pick the winners and will announce them on Monday, November 18th, here on the blog.

Have a great week, everyone!

 

p.s. I hope you win!

 

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By jen | November 4, 2013 | Blog |

18 thoughts on “Announcement and a Giveaway!”

  4. Jamie Carollo

    If I could go anywhere – I’d choose South Dakota. My hubby and I went there on a roadtrip for our honeymoon and we’ve gone back once since. We love it!

  11. Christy Coleman

    Not only do I want to Thank You for being generous and giving away a few books to us to readers,but I think it is awesome that you being exclusive to Amazon so that Prime Members like myself who pay yearly for the Membership can enjoy it and hopefully some will help spread the word if they LOVE it so their friends buy it!

    I would love to go back home to Italy one last time with my kids before they go to college and start families of their own. I love creating memories and Traditions with them. <3 Christy <3

    Tweeted
    https://twitter.com/keyki9/status/398116448679116800
    Shared on both of my facebook blog pages
    https://www.facebook.com/christyswrittenword.page/posts/1422184384664918
    https://www.facebook.com/christyswrittenwordloveblog/posts/621815364527118

  12. Nancy Allen

    I have always wanted to go to Australia to the outback. This has been a dream of mine since I read The Thorn Birds when I was a teenager.

    My post:
    Facebook
    Twitter

    I have already read and reviewed Anywhere and loved it. But I would love to have a signed copy to add to my collection.

  14. Joanne Hansrote

    I posted your link on my facebook page.
    If I could go Anywhere, I would go back to Barbados where my husband and I eloped to 13 years ago.