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Poetic Edda Lays of the Gods Book

Poetic Edda Lays of the Gods Book for $0.99 + free shipping

Dec 29, 2011 3:44 PM

This is the Bellows translation of the "Lays of the Gods" of the Poetic Edda. in 2006 I found a print copy of this work and painstakingly transcribed it to place it back in print (available via cafepress) However at that time ebooks were not that available. When approached by a friend who asked if I still had my document to turn it into an ebook, I once again spent many days converting all of Bellows Footnotes into Hyperlinked end notes and fixed the formatting for the Kindle to preserve the measure and readability of my print version. I had this listed at $2.99 and have just dropped price to $.99. Granted I split the "Poetic Edda" back into 2 volumes but that was for space reasons and I was trying to make them available as I completed each section. And yes I am shamelessly promoting my own work but I put a lot of time and effort into this book to make it right. Check out the sample to see what I am referring to.

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@carlcampbelljr: Interesting. I'm curious as to whether you get any sales on this very obscure item. Please post back in a few days, if you see any traffic on Amazon that seems to be related to this.

I voted your deal up, and am curious as to whether something this obscure will be purchased via a posting on Deals dot woot.

Good luck.

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Thanks, I appreciate the vote. This is was more of a labor of love then a making money thing.

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@shrdlu Well I have something. I just pulled sales records. And in the previous month I have sold 8 copies of the lays of the gods and 3 of the lays of the hero's. With that informal posting it would indicate that there was a increase of 5 units sold due to the posting here however I dont have any way to prove that. Just that it sold 5 more copies over the same period as volume 2 the month before sales were pretty much equal with about 1-2 copies sold.

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it got 15 clicks so that is what a 33% conversion rate if the increase in sales is from here.

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@carlcampbelljr: That's really a good comparison. I'm glad that this showed some activity for you. Thanks very much for coming back with the comments. I really appreciate it, and have found it interesting.

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