My sales for year so far
When I started self-publishing in 2008, I didn't really have any kind of goals on how big of a number I wanted to reach. When I hit 100 sold by the end of 2009 without any promoting except for Facebook, I thought that was cool. When I managed to get a little over 500 sold last year, I thought that was awesome. Well, as of September 2011, I have now reached 2000 sold for the year so far, and I'm only 200 away from reaching 3000 sales. Earlier in the year, around March, for some inexplicable reason to me, my sales took off on both Amazon and B&N at 400 combined a month mostly for one title, but, just as inexplicably, two months later, I went back to selling maybe 30 a month. I can't explain that, but, boy, do I wish I knew how I manage to attract that many readers. Well, anyway, here's the totals as of right now, from 2008 until now, on each platform for each book. My paperback sales are listed under the publisher I used. Links to each novel are located at each novel's page at the top of this blog or at http://cliffball.webs.com.
Amazon Kindle, combo of US & UK
Out of Time – 317
Don't Mess With Earth – 703
The Usurper – 294
Shattered Earth – 260
Voyager and the Aliens short story – 1 (uploaded this week)
Barnes & Noble Nook
Out of Time – 53
Don't Mess With Earth – 163
The Usurper – 49
Shattered Earth – 33
Kobo
Out of Time – 32
Don't Mess With Earth – 5
The Usurper – 3
Shattered Earth – 5
Apple
Out of Time – 53
Don't Mess With Earth – 19
The Usurper – 2
Shattered Earth – 62
Sony Reader
Out of Time – 4
Don't Mess With Earth – 3
The Usurper – 0
Shattered Earth – 2
Smashwords
Out of Time – 32
Don't Mess With Earth – 97
The Usurper – 160
Shattered Earth – 173
Voyager and the Aliens – 98
iUniverse, the original publisher of Out of Time
Out of Time paperback or e-book – 55
Virtualbookworm.com, publisher of Don't Mess With Earth
Don't Mess With Earth paperback – 62
Createspace
Out of Time – 7
The Usurper – 24
Shattered Earth – 20
and when I used Lulu.com for a couple of months:
Out of Time – 3
The Usurper – 1
To re-cap the grand totals:
Out of Time: 551
Don't Mess With Earth – 1056
The Usurper – 532
Shattered Earth – 558
Voyager and the Aliens – 99
