Read Through Percentage????

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Cameron Huntley

Discussion Starter · Jun 7, 2015

Hey everyone,

Sorry to be that guy that posts a topic with his very first post - I usually lurk on forums way more than I post - but I simply cannot find that answer to this question, even after searching for it on this Board. I guess because it's a weird group of words to put together?

But anyway, I've seen multiple people talking about what percentage of their works a buyer/downloader has read through - and they've called it the "read through rate"...where in the name of all that is Holy are you finding this data? I've looked everywhere on the KDP site and I can't find any direction on Google or what have you - it just brings up how a READER can tell what percent of a book THEY'VE read!

I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone here...any help would be very much appreciated. :'(

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· #2 · Jun 7, 2015

When readers borrow your book and read 10% then it shows as a KU sale for you.

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Chris Fox

· #3 · Jun 7, 2015

You compile the data based on sales. If I sell 100 copies of book one, and 65 copies of book 2, then I have a 65% read through rate.

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Cameron Huntley

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jun 7, 2015

Chris Fox said:
You compile the data based on sales. If I sell 100 copies of book one, and 65 copies of book 2, then I have a 65% read through rate.

OH!

Oh...

Oooooooh.....

Welp, I feel stupid.

I didn't think Amazon had THAT kind of technology but so many people were mentioning it I thought...well...maybe they're more Orwellian than I thought.

Thank you!

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dianapersaud

· #5 · Jun 7, 2015

Cameron Huntley said:
OH!

Oh...

Oooooooh.....

Welp, I feel stupid.

I didn't think Amazon had THAT kind of technology but so many people were mentioning it I thought...well...maybe they're more Orwellian than I thought.

Thank you!

Amazon does have the technology to see how fast you read through a book. They are just not sharing that with authors.

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Ros_Jackson

· #6 · Jun 7, 2015

Chris Fox said:
You compile the data based on sales. If I sell 100 copies of book one, and 65 copies of book 2, then I have a 65% read through rate.

I'd call that the buy-through rate. It might be important to make that distinction in future, because various ereaders that track how much of a book is read. I think Kobo hinted last year that they'd let us at more of this data, but so far they haven't. Boo.

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Chris Fox

· #7 · Jun 7, 2015

Ros_Jackson said:
I'd call that the buy-through rate. It might be important to make that distinction in future, because various ereaders that track how much of a book is read. I think Kobo hinted last year that they'd let us at more of this data, but so far they haven't. Boo.

To my knowledge no retailer gives us this data yet, so while buy through is a more accurate term people use read through. I look forward to the day when that changes and I know just how far people get in each book =)

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Lydniz

· #8 · Jun 7, 2015

Hi, it sounds like you're conflating two things here. If you're in KU/Select, a reader who borrows your book has to read 10% of it before you get paid for a borrow. I'm not quite sure what that's called. As for the other thing, I think most people call it sell-through, and it's exactly what Chris Fox says: the percentage of people who have read your first book and who then go on to read the next one in the series.

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NoCat

· #9 · Jun 7, 2015

I call it sell-through

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