Sales in February!

          In the first twenty days of February, my ebooks have sold twelve copies. I've done nothing to market them at all.
     
          I started a thread in the Meet Our Author's forum about pricing, and so far I've been told the books will have to be priced at $2.99 to meet the 70% royalty band.

          I'm coming round to the opinion that having the books priced at the lowest possible price is having virtually no effect on sales. At first sight this doesn't seem rational, but you can get hundreds of downloads if the books are free and almost none if the books are priced at 77p, which is less than I pay for my morning paper. I think the whole thing works on visibility. It's harder to find books at 77p than it is if they are for free.

          Also, last month my top selling book was Ancient Futures. In December, it sold two copies. In January it sold eighteen copies. It has one jokey review on the American site and none on the British one. It may have had a selling bounce from the five free day book promotion, but I doubt it.

          The books I'd like folk to buy are The Buddha and the Big Bad Wolf  and TheBlissBook. In January, these books sold nine and five copies respectively, so making them dead cheap isn't shifting them so far.

           I suppose the best thing I should do as regards the pricing and such is to leave things as they are, but I think I might put up the prices, at least on the books that have to nothing to do with Buddhism; the ones that are just novels. Maybe I'll put up the prices on the latter and leave the former dead cheap. Don't know what to do really, but I'll do something soon!!

          Later: I've made all my books cost $3.50 in the USA and whatever that converts to elsewhere. I think it means they'll cost around £2.20 in Britain. You have to have the books at $2.99 to hit the 70% royalty band. So I've put them at a wee bit more than that because I think if you lower the price at any point, some folk get alerts, so making it a wee bit over the 70% barrier makes a wee bit of sense.

          If you want to download them at the cheap price, you'll got about twelve hours from now, it seems.

           Hopefully, this is the beginning of my not having to spend time trying to market ebooks when I should be writing them or meditating!!