From Rags to Riches on the Kindle: December/2010 sales figures.

By Mike Jastrzebski

December sales slowed down a little from the previous months. Part of the reason for this was that in November and the first half of December I did no promoting of my books. I wanted to see what would happen, and what happened was that sales fell. I know of some writers out there whose sales are rising each month without any obvious promotion, but I'm not one of those writers.

Anyway, here are the figures. In December I sold 168 copies of The Storm Killer and 203 copies of Key Lime Blues. This is the first month that Key Lime Blues outsold The Storm Killer and I attribute that to the fact that on Dec. 29th I ran a Kindle Daily short featuring Key Lime Blues.

My check for December, based on October sales, was $933.23. My total earnings from Amazon for 2010, based on sales from the end of June through October, were $3005.29. Keep in mind that Amazon pays 60 days after sales so 2 months of my sales will be paid in 2011.

The total number of books I sold in 2010 was 1429 copies of The Storm Killer and 826 copies of Key Lime Blues, for a total of 2255 books sold over six months.

For those of you out there who are considering going the self publishing route with Amazon, I think these figures speak for themselves. It's a new world and it is possible to make money self publishing.

For the month of January, 2011 I'm giving away a Wi-Fi Kindle worth $139.00, plus four $10.00 Amazon gift certificates. For details check out my 01/03/2010 post. Here's the link: http://writeonthewater.com/?p=3265

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