[MrPLD]

Awful, just AWFUL month for me - but then I didn't do any promo - had to go back to electronics/programming/www-sites/artwork to make some money.

About 50 sales all up... at least that's more than the 1-a-day club, though not by much.

 

[HeidiHall]

Sales were down for me as well.

ADoR (Romantic Suspense, released 4/1/11) = 81 + 2 UK (50 while at $3.99 and 31 over the weekend when I dropped the price to $.99 for a Memorial Day sale)
AUO (Hot Romance, released 10/1/10) = 271 + 2 UK ($2.99)

(I'm posting with full disclosure because it has really helped me in the past to know how others in my genre(s) are doing, what they're pricing their books at, how long they've been on the market, etc. I blog about twice a week, tweet sporadically and post in various forums. I have not yet paid for any sponsorships, nor have I sent either of my books for review. Hope this info helps.)

ADoR is up from April, but that's only because of the sale, I was on target to sell less. AUO is down from April. I keep hoping I'll see that slow climb each month (even by a few books), but unless I have a sale, they seem to be evening out (or slowing, as they have this month). Fingers crossed that when school lets out and people start going on vacation, they'll pick up again.

I'm furiously writing my next book and hope that will only make things better. I'm blaming the slow sales on Gaga, all the free books and missing tags (I have to blame something/someone... it can't be that I'm a horrible writer ).

*There is still an hour and a half until 6/1 here, maybe I'll sell a thousand more copies before May shudders to a close. 

 

[MrPLD]

Elita (the writer in this family ) is naturally worried about sales - but I do try to push the emphasis to her that it's more important that she just keeps on writing and writing what -she- wants to write (not what she thinks people want to write, which she knows, but we're all prone to being influenced).  A couple more books to the list and I think thinks will tend to grow naturally.... especially for that Zombie book

 

[CraigInOregon]

Well, I finally get to post in a thread like this! Yay!

Let's see...

MOST LIKELY was uploaded and went live on May 24, so I had eight days of availability in the month.

On Nook, I sold 1 copy. So that'll carry over to June sales, if I can make enough in June to get paid. ($1.94 pending)

On Smashwords, I had 11 downloads... 4 of them (so far, I'm expecting 1-2 more to come in eventually) were giveaways I handed out to spread the word and solicit reviews... the balance were just samples. So, no pay pending.

On Kindle, I have 5 confirmed sales before deadline. That's $10.45, so I'm not sure if that's enough to generate a payment, or if the balance will carry over to June. I chose to be paid by EFT so I think $10 is the tipping point. Which means, after the minor deductions Amazon makes for delivery fees, if I still am over $10, I get paid for May... sometime in August, right? It's not a lot, but I'll take it!

So...

TOTAL FULL-BOOK SALES, PAID AND UNPAID
Nook    Smashwords    Kindle    TOTAL
1        4                    5            10

TOTAL INCOME GENERATED IN MAY 2011
Nook    Kindle    TOTAL
$1.94  $10.45  $12.39

Not terrible for a first-time author's first book with virtually no PR yet, no reviews, not ratings, nothing...

Predictions for June? Umm... better than May, hopefully?

NOTE: I believe my Amazon sales are missing 2-4 early sales just after my book went live, when lots of people were having trouble with KDP numbers not updating properly. KDP Support has a ticket on the issue but hasn't responded yet with what they found. So I may have done a little better, but I imagine any correction will, at this point, be added to June's numbers... I'm guessing...

 

[nomesque]

May was a weird month, what with DEAD(ish) going free for most of it.

Sales on Amazon over the other 5 books: 300 (US), 222 (UK), and 0 (DE).

The vast majority of those sales are the other two books in the DEAD(ish) series.

Last month: sold around 150 over 4 books. (why yes, I did manage to release 2 books this month)

Next month: I predict somewhere between 300 and 700 sales on Amazon... just depends on whether the flow-on effect from the freebie continues or dries up. Probably over 200 in the UK, as DEAD(ish) hasn't been free there before - lots of new bargain-hunter eyes on the series.

 

[Will Write for Gruel]

I sold about 240 copies of my smut across Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords. I may have sold some on other channels, but I don't know yet.

May was down a bit from April. I didn't put anything new up in May and I think that hurt me. I really need to publish 2-4 short works every month.

 

[Carol (was Dara)]

I'm pretty happy with the May sales for my novelette but then it's only been out a couple months and I'm hoping the numbers will continue to build.

Amazon - 558
B&N - 29
Smashwords - 2

I'm making my goal for June 600. That'll be just a tad more than I did this month so I can call it progress. I'm also scrambling to finish my next two novelettes.

 

[philvan]

My novelette went live on the 18th, around 9pm (Eastern), so 13 days. Sold 14 on Smashwords, of which 1 was for cash, the others were coupons, so I count 1. Sold 10 on Amazon US and 2 on UK. Grand total of 13 sales over 13 days. Plus 13 giveaways.
Looking at other's figures June should do better than 1 a day, though up til now it has been steady rather than a climb.

 

[indie.ebooks]

I'm pretty happy with the May sales for my novelette but then it's only been out a couple months and I'm hoping the numbers will continue to build.

Amazon - 558
B&N - 29
Smashwords - 2

I'm making my goal for June 600. That'll be just a tad more than I did this month so I can call it progress. I'm also scrambling to finish my next two novelettes.

Thats pretty good going for just a couple of months I thought. You must be happy with that.

 

[Mel Comley]

I'm slightly down this month Just over 5100 on Amazon but I did have sales elsewhere this month that I haven't had previously.

Smashwords 3
Apple 1
B&N 41
Kobo 48
and Sony 65.

I really need to get my third book out! 

Today I've raised my prices to $2.99 so they're bound to sink now! lol

 

[Ben White]

36 sales total across six books, I'm happy with that number   For June, hopefully one or two more, that'd be nice.

 

[Guest]

The first full month on the market for Fire Season. Not good sales, but then I'm actually thrown because Fire Season did much better in paperback on shelves according to the month's royalty statement. It seems most of my market don't buy ebooks.

Fire Season ebook: Amazon US: 6 UK: 7
The Docks*: Amazon UK 1, Smashwords sales: 64 (downloads 83)
Arrival (free): Smashwords 230

*The Docks was released on 29th May, so that's better than expected. The price for Fire Season is going up today, so I'm not sure I'll sell any on Kindle next month.

 

[41419]

Hi all,

Since I first started lurking on Kindleboards in March, I wondered if I would ever get to post in one of these threads.

I released my first e-book on May 4 & my second on May 21 - both short stories.

Full breakdown:

If You Go Into The Woods (on sale since May 4)

Amazon 88
Amazon UK 15
Amazon DE 1
Smashwords 4

Total 108

Transfection (on sale since May 21)

Amazon 40
Amazon UK 2
Amazon DE 0
Smashwords 3

Total 45

Total Total 153!!!

That total includes 13 copies gifted through Amazon but doesn't include free downloads on Smashwords or copies given away through other means.

I sold 153 e-books in my first month. Amazing! Far, far more than expected. Especially seeing as I am not in the Premium Catalogue yet. The first e-books is only 4,000 words and the second one is only 5,700 words.

It gives me a lot of hope that (a) there is a market for short stories at this price, and (b) a longer work could do well too (preparing to release a novel, plus more stories, this summer).

I don't know what kind of target to set for sales for June. If I can release my non-fiction title (which I should do), then I should aim for 250 minimum.

Dave

 

[Philip Chen]

Falling Star

I was hoping to meet or exceed my April numbers (944), but only made 715, across all platforms. Not that I'm complaining mind you.

There is Strangeness in the Universe

Released in May, I had 14 sales.

 

[Tara Shuler]

I released book one for $0.99 on April 26th, and sold 25 copies in the 5 days from the 26th through the 30th.

Then I released book two in the series for $2.99 n May 1.

Here are my figures for May:

Amazon: 448 (309 book one, 139 book two)
B&N: 30
Smashwords: 1

Total for both books for May: 479

Not bad at all for my first month!

I sure was hoping to see 500, but I did break 500 if you count those 5 days in April.

 

[41419]

I released book one for $0.99 on April 26th, and sold 25 copies in the 5 days from the 26th through the 30th.

Then I released book two in the series for $2.99 n May 1.

Here are my figures for May:

Amazon: 448 (309 book one, 139 book two)
B&N: 30
Smashwords: 1

Total for both books for May: 479

Not bad at all for my first month!

I sure was hoping to see 500, but I did break 500 if you count those 5 days in April.

That's amazing Tara, well done.

 

[Mel Comley]

Tara that's fantastic for your first month.

You too, David, especially as I'm always hearing that short stories don't sell too well.

 

[Lexi Revellian]

I think the UK was an easier marketplace than the US last month. My second novel took off, and helped sales of my first, so this was a good month for me.

Remix UK 2,572
Remix US 327
Smashwords 2
Total 2,901

Replica UK 4,143
Replica US 152
(Haven't bothered with Smashwords as Remix sales via SW are poor)
Total 4,295

Both books total for May: 7,196

Lexi

 

[41419]

Tara that's fantastic for your first month.

You too, David, especially as I'm always hearing that short stories don't sell too well.

I'm delighted because with both releases there was an initial burst of sales, then a slump (prob friends and family) and then it slowly picked up again as promo efforts kicked in.

Makes me even more frantic to get the novel out!

 

[NickSpalding]

Had my best month ever.

Just over 2500 total sales at Amazon UK, with 100 or so at Amazon US.

Had a really big bump at the start of the month with the release of my second book and sailed along in the top 100 for a couple of weeks.