Amazon Book Marketing: Calculating a CPC That Won’t Burn Your Cash

Nick Kolakowski
4 min readJun 2, 2018
If you’re not careful, managing your own book-advertising campaign is basically setting money on fire.

Whether you’re a self-published or “traditional” author, you know that advertising is potentially a huge factor in book sales.

Sure, some books have become bestsellers purely though word-of-mouth and a little luck; the first example that comes to mind is “The Martian,” which became a monster hit after its author, Andy Weir, started publishing chapters…

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Nick Kolakowski

Writer, editor, author of 'Maxine Unleashes Doomsday' and 'Boise Longpig Hunting Club.'