My Curios experience

Following up on Thomas’s interview with Greg Keogh of Curios. I’ve been using them for a year now and have been very happy with their service and responsiveness to questions.

Because their interface was built for music delivery, it was a bit clunky for authors at first, but Greg listened to my comments and now it is much easier to set up.

I use it to provide special editions to my biggest fans & newsletter subscribers before putting the book out to regular retailers. My current project (a holiday story collection) will be at Curios for a slightly higher price starting now, and then I’ll open the pre-order window for Amazon late in November, for an early December delivery.

That way my readers get the book quicker, and I get more money. Last time I did this I got 30 readers to purchase a special edition with a bonus story and some extra PDFS at $6.99. That’s $210 in my pocket. If those 30 readers had bought the regular ebook at Amazon for $4.99, I would have made about $105. So even with a small number of sales, I doubled my net revenue.

You can see my sales page for the holiday collection here:

There’s also an epub. I set up the print edition through BookVault which was kind of glitchy (their service was down for a few days) and their shipping prices are very high.

The analytics that Thomas mentioned on Curios are only available to pro members and I’m on the $5 a month plan, so I can’t see them. But I have a feeling they are only for reads and/or listens through their dedicated e-reader and audio app, not for ebooks the reader has sent direct to Amazon.

Thanks, Thomas, for bringing Greg on the podcast and introducing Curios to authors.

Neil Plakcy