Proving You Can't Even Give a Book on Suicide Away for FREE? #StopSuicide #NSPW17

During#NSPW17, my ebook for the suicidal (& their families) is FREE for iBooks, Kobo, B&N& Kindlehttps://t.co/qkcmqt8PkC#suicide Plz RTpic.twitter.com/JsFVDEy7T5— Douglas Cootey (@SplinteredMind)September 14, 2017Another year; anotherNational Suicide Prevention Week has passed. This year I thought it would be a good service to the community if I offered my ebook,Saying“NO” to Suicide, for FREE throughout the week. Since I’d never made my ebooks FREE before, I had no idea what an ordeal this would become. I started last Saturday, and soon Kobo reflected the new price. Yes! Excitement! By midnight, Apple’s iBooks was also reflecting the price. This was going to work! But thenWorld Suicide Prevention Day arrived on the 10th, and neither B&N nor Kindle reflected the newer, freer price. This was a problem because I sell most of my books on Amazon’s Kindle (followed closely by iBooks). I decided to hold off making any announcement until all the sellers matched in price.B&N changed their price on Monday, which was fine forNational Suicide Prevention Week, but Amazon was still unchanged. You see, Amazon doesn’t allow sellers to list their items for $0. Instead, you change the price elsewhere and hope Amazon price matches. After all, that’s what all the tutorials say. Would the internet lie?By Tuesday, I let people know about the sale, and then begged readers to report the price difference at Amazon to get things movi...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Suicide Writing Source Type: blogs