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Anybody check out the new KDP reports beta?
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I like the new reports. The old ones were just clunky.
I've seen somewhere that this is just a reworking of the Sales Dashboard, and that the rest of the reports are coming later...so that answered my concern about the Month-To-Date figures...now if we can just get timely reporting of the sales figures...and maybe a consolidation of all reviews across the different channels so I don't have to open up the pages for each country to see what people are saying...
It seems an improvement, but I've been spoiled by Book Report's service. It's been surprisingly accurate as to how much I can expect from royalties each month. Book Report is a bookmark that you install on your browser that displays your KDP data in an organized way for a monthly fee. For me, it has been more than worth it since I can see how my books are performing, especially during promos, and which markets are earning what today, last week, last month or last year with a click. The daily numbers (as in, how much you earned that day) can be a little off due to fluctuations in KENP and delay, but monthly royalty calculations are generally correct, in my experience. This is my view when I check my daily stats (can be customized to view according to book, market, time frame, etc):
It looks like Amazon finally decided to present the data the same way Smashwords has been presenting it for years. I do like how I don't have to cycle through all the countries in the dropdown menu to find out where the sales are coming from. Nor do I have to cycle through the titles in the dropdown menu to figure out which books were bought/read on a particular day. On the other hand, I don't see where it tells me about returns, so I don't have an accurate figure on gross sales.