Sales Figures of a Self-Published Nobody
Most of this is cross-posted from a comment I made on
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jimhines
post about his sales figures, but here goes:
I put Darkside and Waking the Dead up in April. Currently I'm only selling at Amazon and Smashwords. Darkside sold about 120 copies at Amazon in April, then dropped to about 30 in May, and seems to be tracking at about the same for June. All of those sales were through Amazon. It sold an additional 2 copies at Smashwords. Waking the dead has sold far fewer copies, but I attribute that (hopefully) to the fact that when I first posted both books the formatting was horrible. (I didn't realize this until I had time about 2 weeks later to actually download them myself and check them out.) Since reformatting both books, the sales of Waking the Dead seem to be tracking those of Darkside fairly consistently.
Of course, I don't have Jim's legitimate author reputation to help bring notice to my work, although oddly enough the whole fiasco with the theft of Darkside and it's posting at Amazon probably helped with that. And of course, Darkside is priced at .99 cents, and Waking the Dead at $2.99. (Jim's are priced slightly higher).
Bear in mind, too, that Darkside has been available for free at my website for a few years now, both to read online and in pdf/doc/rtf/microsoft reader format. I've had over 1200 email requests for Waking the Dead which I assume means that at least the same amount have read Darkside. It's also available as a free download on several other sites.
Obooko actually keeps track of downloads, and Darkside has been downloaded 369 times to date. That's interesting to note because it took it over two years to reach 200 downloads, yet it's garnered an additional 169 downloads in the 2 1/2 months since I put it up for sale at Amazon. I put Waking the Dead up on Obooko in April, and it has 194 downloads in that same time period, which tells me it's tracking on Obooko better than Darkside is. I have no idea how well similar sites are doing, but if I'm getting this many downloads from just this one site I'm hoping they're doing well also.
Of course it would be nice if they were all sales, but hey.
jimhines
post about his sales figures, but here goes:I put Darkside and Waking the Dead up in April. Currently I'm only selling at Amazon and Smashwords. Darkside sold about 120 copies at Amazon in April, then dropped to about 30 in May, and seems to be tracking at about the same for June. All of those sales were through Amazon. It sold an additional 2 copies at Smashwords. Waking the dead has sold far fewer copies, but I attribute that (hopefully) to the fact that when I first posted both books the formatting was horrible. (I didn't realize this until I had time about 2 weeks later to actually download them myself and check them out.) Since reformatting both books, the sales of Waking the Dead seem to be tracking those of Darkside fairly consistently.
Of course, I don't have Jim's legitimate author reputation to help bring notice to my work, although oddly enough the whole fiasco with the theft of Darkside and it's posting at Amazon probably helped with that. And of course, Darkside is priced at .99 cents, and Waking the Dead at $2.99. (Jim's are priced slightly higher).
Bear in mind, too, that Darkside has been available for free at my website for a few years now, both to read online and in pdf/doc/rtf/microsoft reader format. I've had over 1200 email requests for Waking the Dead which I assume means that at least the same amount have read Darkside. It's also available as a free download on several other sites.
Obooko actually keeps track of downloads, and Darkside has been downloaded 369 times to date. That's interesting to note because it took it over two years to reach 200 downloads, yet it's garnered an additional 169 downloads in the 2 1/2 months since I put it up for sale at Amazon. I put Waking the Dead up on Obooko in April, and it has 194 downloads in that same time period, which tells me it's tracking on Obooko better than Darkside is. I have no idea how well similar sites are doing, but if I'm getting this many downloads from just this one site I'm hoping they're doing well also.
Of course it would be nice if they were all sales, but hey.
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