How to Support Indie Authors

As an author myself, an indie author, support from readers is so incredibly important. Especially, when up against the big publishing businesses or Amazon.

There are many ways that you can support indie authors and the most obvious one is to buy their books straight from their website if they have one. Most indie authors get more profit if you purchase directly from them and by doing so, you also keep the profit out of big business (like Amazon).

If you purchase a physical copy from Amazon and you enjoy the book, check to see if the book is on Kindle Unlimited (KU) (if you have an account of your own). Authors who have their books in the KU program get some profit for every page read. If you really enjoyed the book you can also slowly scroll through the book. Allowing the author to get not only the profit from the physical copy, but also the profit from the pages read on Kindle.

Word Of Mouth- Enjoy their book? Tell your friends, family, colleagues, post it on social media. The best way for an author to get their books out there. To make sales, is word of mouth. Book Tok has changed the lives for a lot of indie authors and that is the goal for a lot of writers.

Leave reviews- Authors want reviews. The more reviews, the better (usually). If readers see that a book has high ratings with lots of reviews, they are more likely to purchase and read the book.

How do you support indie authors? Are you more likely to pick up a book from a indie author? Or from a big publishing company? What would it take for you to support an indie author?