Author Charts & Pearl news
When you give birth to a book, you are then obliged to look at graphs and charts telling you things about your book.
But before we get to that, I wanted to mention that Pearl is now wide. She's up on iBooks and Kobo and will be on Nook as soon as B&N uploads it!
I thought I'd give you guys a peek at a few of these author charts. Welcome, briefly, to the world of indie authoring.
So, first: what authors want. Sales!
This is Pearl's sales chart from Amazon for the past month:
I've sold one more since I took this screenshot, by the way.
Because Pearl was enrolled in Kindle Select (her time there has now ended), there is another graph underneath which tells me pages read. When a Select reader reads a page of Pearl for the first time, it counts on this graph and I get paid a little bit per page finished:
You may think that's all. I mean, someone bought the book, others borrowed it to read it. What else is there?
Well, there's this squiggly thing: Amazon Best-Sellers Rank. I think mine looks like a dinosaur.
And this nifty chart is more about marketing and readership, I suppose. It's from Goodreads and tells you how many people added the book, reviewed it, or rated it.
So many graphs! I love graphs. ^_^
ReplyDeleteBut I'm tripping the most off of the graph that tells you pages read!
Yeah sadly that graph won't be going now because the book's off Selet now. I thought I'd try it wide for a bit.
DeleteI agree with Krystal. The pages read graph is a triply one. Gosh, what can't graphs measure?
ReplyDeleteYay for PEARL going wide, Michelle :)
It's only if you're in Select. We'll see if I get any sales through the other channels.
DeleteLove graphs :) Well done, Michelle!
ReplyDeleteGraphs are awesome...especially if there are lines across them!
DeleteThey look familiar. Very brave of you to share. I hear these things pick up over time and it take 5 years or 5 books to really get them moving. (Could be true. Who knows?)
ReplyDeleteWho knows? You can't expect much off a self-published novella debut.
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