How to Launch Book Bundles on Amazon

I would like to start this pos by saying that I am very
excited to let you know that The Ani Alexander Collection of all
my 3 fiction books is already available on Amazon for pre-orders.
You can check it out at http://bit.ly/aaacollection


I basically combined my books Highfall, Emotional Moments and
DreamDown.
Amazon's Pre-Order Feature

I am experimenting with Amazon’s pre-order feature to see how it
works. So far things went quite smooth. If you want to put up a
book for a preorder. You basically go through the same steps you
usually follow to self-publish a book on Amazon. The only
difference is that you select the release date and may upload not
the final version of the book, but the draft document. When you
select the release date Amazon tells you when is the deadline by
which you will have to submit the final version of your book. Of
course that is days before the release. Meanwhile, people see
your book’s page on Amazon and can pre-order it with one click.
As soon as the book goes live they receive it in their Kindles.
In case you don’t submit your final book document by the
deadline, Amazon will penalize you and you will not be able to
use the feature for at least year, I think.
How to Create Book Bundle on Amazon?

Unfortunately Amazon does not allow you to bundle individual
books through their ASINs or in some other way. After talking to
many writers I understood that the only way to do this is create
a new book, which has all the books in one file. So you basically
combine all the books files together and make one Kindle book
file out of it. And then you upload that as a new book – with a
new title and a new cover. Now, when the bundle is for series, it
is easy – you can create a box showing the books inside the
series next to each other in that box. Then you can put a title
of your series and say something like volumes 1-6. Or the entire
and whichever your series name is.


In my case, I had a challenge because I had 3 separate books.
From which 2 novels and 1 book of short stories. So I had the
concern that if I put those in a box, people may get confused and
think that all three are part of the same story, which is not the
case. That is why I approached the cover differently. I created a
simple flat cover, which features all the 3 covers of my books.
So far I am getting positive feedback about that and it seems to
work. And again if you visit my collection’s Amazon page at
bit.ly/aaacollection you can see it yourself.
Building Landing Page for Your Book

As to book’s landing page.. well I am still debating with myself
about whether I needed one or not. Since for me it does not take
a long time to create a landing page I created one… but I am not
sure, which is best – to drive people to the landing page or
directly to book’s Amazon page. The thing I am not comfortable
with is that when people go to your book’s landing page they
eventually click and are directed to the Amazon sales page. This
means that they have to make one more extra click, which I am not
sure is good. You can check out my book's landing page here.
How to Direct Readers to Your Book's Amazon Sales Page No
matter Which Country They Come From

So let me explain what I did with the bit.ly/aaacollection url,
which takes you to my my collections’ Amazon sales page. I found
this really nice website at http://authl.it/ where you can fill
in your books ASIN and it will create a link, which will take
your reader’s to their respective countries Amazon book sales
page. Let me explain. What I mean is – if one uses the Amazon.com
link but is from the UK he usually ends up on your book’s
Amazon.com sales page which says that you can’t buy the book
through this website from your country and directs you to the
Amazon UK page. Which sounds...