Amazon Best Sellers lists are divided into Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free in the Kindle Store. While your book is offered for free, it will have a sales rank in the Free list. Once your Free Book Promotion is complete, your book will enter the paid Paid list.
It can take several hours for books to transition between the Free and Paid lists before and after promotional periods. In some cases, the transition may take longer due to system latencies. Since the start and end times of promotions are based on midnight Pacific time, the exact time your book reflects a free or paid sales rank will vary depending on the time zone from which customers are viewing your book. For example, customers in time zones other than Pacific time may not see books reflected in the free list until much later in the day, depending on local time.
The Amazon Best Sellers calculation is based on Amazon.com sales and is updated hourly to reflect recent and historical sales of every item sold on Amazon.com.
Your book will drop in sales rank in the Paid list from the time your free promotion begins to the time it ends. However, since sales rank takes previous sales into account as well as recent sales, your previous paid rank will influence your new rank when your book enters the paid categories again. Learn more information about Amazon Best Sellers Rank here.
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Free Book Promotions
Once your eBook is enrolled in KDP Select, you can run a Free Book Promotion by offering it for free for up to five (5) days out of each 90-day KDP Select enrollment period.
Because your book is available for free during a free book promotion, you will not receive royalties for it while the promotion runs.
You can run a Free Book Promotion in all Kindle marketplaces where the KDP Select enrolled title is available for sale. You have a couple of options for how to run the promotion for the five days--you can run all five days at once, go one day at a time, or offer your book free for multiple days in a row.
For a free promotion to start on any given day, the latest you can wait to schedule it is the day before the start date.
The start and end times of your promotions will be approximately midnight Pacific time on the day it starts and midnight Pacific time on the day it ends. Due to system latencies, the exact start or end of a promotion can vary by a few minutes or several hours. In some cases, this period may be longer.
Because your book is available for free during a free book promotion, you will not receive royalties for it while the promotion runs.
You can run a Free Book Promotion in all Kindle marketplaces where the KDP Select enrolled title is available for sale. You have a couple of options for how to run the promotion for the five days--you can run all five days at once, go one day at a time, or offer your book free for multiple days in a row.
For a free promotion to start on any given day, the latest you can wait to schedule it is the day before the start date.
The start and end times of your promotions will be approximately midnight Pacific time on the day it starts and midnight Pacific time on the day it ends. Due to system latencies, the exact start or end of a promotion can vary by a few minutes or several hours. In some cases, this period may be longer.
