[Larry Buttram]

Just yesterday you had to listen to me complain that I hadn't had a sale in almost a week. Today is my first 10 sale day, and my best seller, False Witness, at least for the moment, is in the top 2% in sales. Yeah, Yeah!! Is the top 1% possible? Stay tuned to this network for further developments.

Larry Buttram
www.larrybuttram.com

 

[stepartdesigns]

Congrats Larry!  Hoping those sales continue!

Katrina

 

[soyfrank]

Awesome, Larry. That's great news. Maybe I'll have a day like that, too

 

[ToniD]

Grats, Larry! Feels good, I bet.

I had a no-sales day yesterday and then three today. Emo-coaster, anyone?

 

[RebeccaKnight]

That's wonderful!    

I noticed an uptick today, myself.  Maybe the end of the Sunshine Deals is making a difference!

 

[Decon]

My sales have picked up this last two days. I never stopped selling daily, but the sales were down during the sunshine deal.

 

[Maria Romana]

Well, weird then. Yesterday (Tuesday) was one of my best sales days ever, and then today has stunk for me. Emo-coaster is right. I was just looking at my numbers over the last week and thinking, how could it keep going up and down so dramatically, day after day? Maybe Amazon is doing something different with their suggestions/matches, etc., and as usual, we're all in the dark and just guessing at what's going on.

 

[Terrence OBrien]

I'm always looking for data sources, and I'm not challenging your figures. If it's the top 2%, where do you get the denominator?

 

[Keira Lea]

Congratulations! I'm up a bit, too. Today was the first day of my two-week blog tour.

 

[jhanel]

Very nice, Larry. I had a 6-day sale on Saturday and about came undone. =) I'm hoping to follow suit very soon!!

Nicely done.

 

[jabeard]

Congrats.

 

[Maria Romana]

I'm always looking for data sources, and I'm not challenging your figures. If it's the top 2%, where do you get the denominator?

I'm not sure how he calculated it, but I've tried that calculation before using the total # of Kindle books out there as the denom. Last I heard, it was around 850K, right? By that token, top 2% would be 17,000, and top 1% would be 8,500. It's a bit more meaningful statistic to quote to the average non-Kindle-ranking-insider (like your Mom or the guy sitting next to you on the plane).

Maria

 

[Larry Buttram]

Kindle states that they carry over 950,000 books and mine was rated 21,500, which comes to 2.21%.

Larry Buttram
www.larrybuttram.com

 

[Jon Olson]

Well, hm. I think the number is more significant than the percentage. But still, congratz on the good day!

 

[PJJones]

Congrats, Larry! PJ