Stats from August 2013 KDP Select Promotion

My novel, RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY was free as a KDP Select promotion from August 15 through August 19. In that time, it reached as high as #14 on the free list at the Kindle Store, and was #1 in literary fiction and contemporary fiction, and #2 in women’s fiction at one point or another. So that’s good.

Here are the actual sales numbers:

Territory
Sales


The Good Old U.S. of A.
14238


United Kingdom
193


Germany
128


France
8


Spain
2


Italy
1


Japan
2


India
25


Canada
52


Brazil
3


Total
14652

A few points:

Thanks much to the websites that featured my free promotion, like Freebies 4 Mom and Florries of Words, just to name two.
Having said that, it would be great if I knew where the traffic to my Amazon page is coming from, in terms of maybe doing some advertising. Just how many people picked up a free copy through which website?
Amazon.com was down for a couple of hours yesterday, but people still seemed to be buying books. My best guess is that a substantial part of the free sales aren’t being done by, you know, actual human beings who are making an actual buying decision to choose my book over others. I don’t know that bots are downloading my book. I think so, though.
The avalanche of sales after the free promotion hasn’t happened yet, for some reason. I expect that it won’t. It would be nice to be surprised for once.
I am probably not doing this again. I won’t say “definitely” but I would a lot rather have a hundred sales from a 99 cent promotion than a hundred thousand sales from a free promotion.