OK I have sold two of my books/articles in the last 24 hours....not so bad even though I priced them at the lowest price I could - a good thing to remember is that Amazon do take a 70% royalty from my 99c. I receive 30% from each sale. However when I finally get my larger books done I will choose a bigger royalty price point which is 70% and so I will then receive a larger slice of the pie. It's all good. There is an option for you the writer, to put your book/article into the free sales option for a period of up to 5 days over a period of ninety days. This is where your writing can become well known and, have the odd review written by another amazon reviewer/user/member which means - if it is a good review of course - that dependent on the no. of stars said reviewer gives your work, you may find you have earned a few dollars from the resulting sales. I haven't worked out yet whether it is good to go for the whole five days at once or whether to use this option sparingly at an estimated 1 -2 days every month or so across the allocated 90 days. Could be that your writing exposure results in the whole cannonball fire for five days then subsistence into nothingness OR it could result in your writing causing bright shooting stars across the firmament saying " Here I Am, Here I Am" spasmodically.... Am in the process of testing this out. We all know that everyone loves free anything but the results here could be in your favour if someone reviews it favorably ......will let you know the answer from my point of view when I have enough knowledge or I could see what others think about this...