Six or eight of my ebooks have made it out into the wild, being torrented on thepiratebay.org. Good for them. They're budget titles, for the most part, and they have links to my other books in them. When I got into this, I wanted readers, not money, as such.
But I've noticed that it's a good way to examine the popularity of individual titles, or rather, interest in them. The scary thing is, the self-publishing book is getting twice the downloads of the fiction titles. Does everyone really still want to be a writer, now?
The downloads are the inverse of what I expected:
Pirate Bay:
Self-pub book > POETRY > Short Stories > Novellas.
Amazon:
Novellas > Short Stories > Self-pub > Poetry
I realize this is hardly a scientific survey, but it is sort of eye-opening nevertheless. I wonder if it's because of the international reach of the site, or some other factor that I'm overlooking? It's not about blurbs and covers, as there are no covers involved, and the blurbs for my poetry book and short stories are pretty sparse. It's not timing, as they all seem to have been uploaded at the same time.
Every time I think I'm beginning to understand things, I learn something new that forces me to reexamine what I thought I knew.
But I've noticed that it's a good way to examine the popularity of individual titles, or rather, interest in them. The scary thing is, the self-publishing book is getting twice the downloads of the fiction titles. Does everyone really still want to be a writer, now?
The downloads are the inverse of what I expected:
Pirate Bay:
Self-pub book > POETRY > Short Stories > Novellas.
Amazon:
Novellas > Short Stories > Self-pub > Poetry
I realize this is hardly a scientific survey, but it is sort of eye-opening nevertheless. I wonder if it's because of the international reach of the site, or some other factor that I'm overlooking? It's not about blurbs and covers, as there are no covers involved, and the blurbs for my poetry book and short stories are pretty sparse. It's not timing, as they all seem to have been uploaded at the same time.
Every time I think I'm beginning to understand things, I learn something new that forces me to reexamine what I thought I knew.