Audiobook, Sales
Well, so far the audiobook edition of Captive of the Red Vixen has been on sale for about a week and doing pretty well. Above and beyond the promo copies I've handed out to my Kickstarter supporters, I've gotten 14 sales (counting a personal copy I bought for myself instead of waiting for my promo code).
Working the numbers that's:
13 sales via Audible Credits and just bought outright, plus one from me at the discount price available to Audible subscribers.
$14.95 x 13 = $194.35 + $10.46 = $204.81 x 0.4 (Royalty Rate) = $81.92.
So in about a week I've almost twice as much as my best month selling ebooks. Small change all around compared to pro authors, but significant for me. Assuming I hadn't had the benefit of Kickstarter to pay expenses, I'd be about 1/5 of the way towards paying off production costs. Go me.
On the downside, the metrics ACX provides to show your sales really suck arse. I get total sales, but no information on how many are selling per day, and nothing like KDP's almost hourly updates. Instead the information seem to lag two to three days behind actual sales, and it fails to tell me exactly how much I'm earning, again unlike KDP. Hopefully at the end of the month more substantial information will be provided, but for now I'm not overly impressed.
Working the numbers that's:
13 sales via Audible Credits and just bought outright, plus one from me at the discount price available to Audible subscribers.
$14.95 x 13 = $194.35 + $10.46 = $204.81 x 0.4 (Royalty Rate) = $81.92.
So in about a week I've almost twice as much as my best month selling ebooks. Small change all around compared to pro authors, but significant for me. Assuming I hadn't had the benefit of Kickstarter to pay expenses, I'd be about 1/5 of the way towards paying off production costs. Go me.
On the downside, the metrics ACX provides to show your sales really suck arse. I get total sales, but no information on how many are selling per day, and nothing like KDP's almost hourly updates. Instead the information seem to lag two to three days behind actual sales, and it fails to tell me exactly how much I'm earning, again unlike KDP. Hopefully at the end of the month more substantial information will be provided, but for now I'm not overly impressed.