Made my first sale in Germany. Anyone else made a sale there

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Decon

Discussion Starter · May 28, 2011

Whoa ... way to go. Sold my first download of Survival Instinct on Amazon. de. I was beginning to think I would never make a sale there, despite posting in German and English.

For some strange reason It doesn't show a rank. Anyone else had that experience?

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Maria Romana

· #2 · May 28, 2011

No DE sales yet <sob>. Just a new BBOD (beige bar of death) staring me in the face every morning.

Saffina Desforges

· #3 · May 28, 2011

Yeah, we made #5 in English speaking Police Procedurals, above Konrath and Crouch...

Paul Clayton

· #4 · May 28, 2011

Congrats on that sale. Where on KDP does it show German sales? I can't find it.

Kathleen Valentine

· #5 · May 28, 2011

My knitting books are pretty popular there.

samanthawarren

· #6 · May 28, 2011

I sold one copy of each of my novellas at the very beginning of the month. Nothing since then.

Decon

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 28, 2011

Paul Clayton said:
Congrats on that sale. Where on KDP does it show German sales? I can't find it.

You should be able to see it on your Kindle account reports page next to Amazon,co.uk

Lexi Revellian

· #8 · May 28, 2011

No.

*sulks*

I've stopped looking.

Lexi

alan nayes

· #9 · May 28, 2011

not me--i keep looking, though. congrats.

swolf

· #10 · May 28, 2011

With a last name like Wolf, I would think some of my long-lost relatives over there would throw me a bone and buy something, but no, nothing so far.

Decon

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 28, 2011

Saffina Desforges said:
Yeah, we made #5 in English speaking Police Procedurals, above Konrath and Crouch...

That's excellent, did your first sale show a rank? Mine isn't showing anything.

Ali Cooper

· #12 · May 28, 2011

No. Though I've sold at least one book to someone in Germany before they had their own site!
I'm rather fond of my brown BBoS

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Harris Channing

· #13 · May 28, 2011

NOne for me...WAHHH!!!

Paul Clayton

· #14 · May 28, 2011

Decon said:
You should be able to see it on your Kindle account reports page next to Amazon,co.uk

Thanks. It was there all the time. A big... nothing!

Ah, what can you say.

EliRey

· #15 · May 28, 2011

I sold a copy of Forever Mine beginning of this month. I remember thinking oh nice little mothers day gift. Then nothing since. $:-\$

philvan

· #16 · May 28, 2011

Decon, you've inspired me. Just went to the .DE site and filled in my profile info, then posted in one discussion. My German is minimal, so I used Google translate. Probably a hilariously mangled version of what I tried to say, if their German to English translation is anything to go by.
Sherlock Holmes stuff would be very hard to translate, I think, but many there do speak and read English.

Mel Comley

· #17 · May 28, 2011

I've had 3 this month, 4 in total last month. It's still very slow on there though.

Cheryl Shireman

· #18 · May 28, 2011

Yes! Finally made my first sale in Germany.

But I keep imagining some German woman saying "I thought this was in German!"

(although I guess she would actually be saying that IN German....)

TimFrost

· #19 · May 28, 2011

Ja, meine Lieblinge, ich habe auch ein Buch verkauft!

Decon

Discussion Starter · #20 · May 28, 2011

philvan said:
Decon, you've inspired me. Just went to the .DE site and filled in my profile info, then posted in one discussion. My German is minimal, so I used Google translate. Probably a hilariously mangled version of what I tried to say, if their German to English translation is anything to go by.
Sherlock Holmes stuff would be very hard to translate, I think, but many there do speak and read English.

Check this out, Survival Instinct is 1 one in its category and 1033 overall. 82 in crime thrillers. That should inspire you even more

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B004P8K2S8

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