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Hmm since I started publishing my books, which was around 7-7-2013, I've sold about 38 copies of 4 short novellas (in total). I don't know if it's good or not, but I just keep on publishing more short stories at least every week or so, driving traffic using a marketing plan I've been trying to get more reviews, but no luck so far, though I do think it's wonderful I've managed to sell at least a few copies. Also had a 1 day free promo and downloads skyrocketed to 1100 or so . Hope it might do some good
That's more than a sale a day in your first month! Congrats!
Heheh thanks both ^^ Yeah, I guess, but I don't know what is little or what is much, you know
I do know. Here's the thing, comparing your sales to someone else's is a losing game all the way around. Write the best book you possibly can with the best cover, editing, proofing, marketing, promoting you can. Then, write another book. The sales may come. Reviews may come. Those are things you cannot control. Writing the book, now THAT you have ultimate control over.
I've got the first book in my series on sale for 99c and am currently #7 in the children's science fiction and fantasy on kindle! That's really cool. I've been #1 before, but it was only for a few hours after a bookbub run.
#3500 overall, which is great seeing as I'd dropped down to about 15k recently.
This isn't really my news to share, but Leah Raeder made it into the Amazon Top 100 for her e-book, Unteachable. It's been out less than a week! She has a thread here on AW, if you want to follow her journey. Linky goodness.
My latest book, a standalone mystery titled Dog's Run, has been in the Top 100 for mysteries on Amazon since it was released last week and has 11 five star reviews http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDKTEC2/?tag=absowrit-20
I guess this is really for the mods, but isn't this a self-publishing thread rather than an e-publishing one? I think it would be a real encouragement to others in the self-pub forum who might be missing it here (I've only just discovered it) and it doesn't seem to be used by people who are digitally published through a publisher.