From Rags to Riches on the Kindle-March results

March was a bit of a milestone for me with my combined sales for both my books topping 5000 Kindle books sold since July of 2010. The breakdown is 2841 copies of The Storm Killer and 2383 copies of Key Lime Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery) sold.

There are two reasons why The Storm Killer has outsold Key Lime Blues to date. First, The Storm Killer went on sale 40 days before Key Lime Blues, and second, beginning March 16th I lowered the price of The Storm Killer from $2.99 to .99 cents. As of the 15th I had sold 189 copies of The Storm Killer and 333 copies of Key Lime Blues. I ended up selling 778 copies of The Storm Killer and 615 of Key Lime Blues by the end of the month. This was a good jump in sales for The Storm Killer but I needed to sell 6 times the number of books at .99 cents to break even and, as you can see, I only sold a little over 3 times as many copies of TheSstorm Killer. So it looks like I lost money on the deal.

Still, I decided to go with the .99 cent price throughout April. At the end of that time, unless there is a dramatic increase in sales, I intend to put The Storm Killer back up to the $2.99 price, or maybe I'll test out the $3.99 price point. Either way I'll post my results at the end of April.

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