Who is brave enough to post their March numbers?

[EllenFisher]

Monique, that is a fabulous number for one book.  And I really loved Out of Time.  Glad it's selling so well!

[Monique]

Thank you, Ellen! I'm so thrilled you enjoyed it. Gotta get that next book out. I'm in awe of all of you with so many books. Someday...

[Julie Christensen]

I love reading this thread.  Every single one of you inspires me.  Those who sold more because I hope to sell more, too.  Those who sold less because I admire your mettle.  In the end, we all just want to write and be read, and it's why I enjoy hearing from all of you.

[theaatkinson]

Well over 4 books, I sold 365 in March at Amazon, BN, and Smash.

I'm pretty happy about that!

[JenniferBecton]

Charlotte Collins (novel at $2.99) 660
Maria Lucas (short story at $.99 released Mar 5) 122

Very happy despite slower sales this week.

[destill]

I sold 825 Ebooks (three books). What puzzles me is that 395 of those were Kindle copies of Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road. And I sold EXACTLY the same number Kindle copies of Driving in February. What are the odds?

[rsullivan9597]

14,122 across all platforms...I released a new novel at the end of Feb., so that gave me a huge boost over Jan. and Feb.

Wow - Congratz Blake - Nice going!!

[endhalf]

Wow, that is both amazing and really sad... Amazing, because I really love to see some of my favorites books to be doing so great and I feel like authors deserve it. I mean, it is amazing that you can write your book and post it on Amazon, where you can earn up to 70 (?)% of your price. I myself consider as succes even less than 1000 copies sold. When you sell for example 300 copies, sure, you can't buy new car, but hey, you'v entertained over 300 people wich seems to me really great.

But it is really sad seeing that someone can sell that many books without having any problems with publishers for it is not possible to do that in non-english speaking countries. I'm living in Czech Republic, wich is small, 10mil country in the middle of Europe. Completely impossible here .

[Cristian YoungMiller]

That's fabulous Sibel... and a really good example of how books priced higher can do very well and earn their author a decent amount of money! Well over a quid a copy looking at your prices

Quid? Quid? I'm assuming that some form of currency?

[EllenFisher]

Quid? Quid? I'm assuming that some form of currency?

I'm not British, but I believe "quid" is slang for a pound.

[Gretchen Galway]

260 in your first month is fricking amazing - especially at $3.99. You could write a short on 'How I sold 250 Kindle books in my first month' and probably pick up another 1500 sales from that alone.

LOL, I was thinking that too. And wondering what his book was because it wasn't in his sig!
I had half that, Pearson, and I'm doing the happy dance. Rock on!

[rsullivan9597]

Okay....so I really hope no one gets mad at me for doing this.  But I think it is useful information for people - and its based off of numbers posted publically, not something private so I really do hope this is all right.  I took the data from this post along with sales numbers on books and came up with some monthly earnings....

When I had "exact" numbers for all books I made a single income $. When people had several books I posted the "min" and "max" assuming all books were sold at lowest price and highest price.

Author	# of titles	Sold	Prices	Monthly	Min	Max
Mel Comley	2	3,737	2-$0.99, 1-$2.99		$1,295	$7,822
Ellen Fisher	15	11,300	15-$0.99	$3,915
Judi Coltman	1	356	1-$2.99	$745
D.A. Boulter	4	652	2-$0.99, 2-$2.99		$226	$1,365
Michael J. Sullivan	5	5,286	4-$4.95, 1-$6.95	$19,915
Imogen Rose	4	5,882	1-$0.99, 3-$3.99		$2,038	$16,428
Siebel Hodge	3	6,314	3-$3.49	$15,425
Nick Spalding	1	607	1-$2.82	$1,198
Martin Sharlow	5	5,096	3-$0.99, 1-$1.95, 1-$2.99		$1,766	$10,666
N. Gemini Sasson	3	2,017	$2.99	$4,222
Edward Patterson	Many	682	$0.99, $2.99	$236	$1,427
Cara Marsi	1	2,101	$0.99	$728
David McAfee	5	3,918	2-$0.99, 3-$2.99	$6,085
Matt Laube	2	1,478	$0.99, $2.99	$1,399
J. Carson Black	3	1,066	3-$0.99	$369
James Melzer	4	1,039	4-$0.99	$360
David Dalglish	8	6,554	2-$0.99, $2.99, 2-$3.99	$12,132
Teri Reid	3	7,002	1-$0.99, 2-$2.99		$2,426	$14,655
William Esmont	2	3,166	2-$0.99	$1,097
Suzanne Tyrpak	2	1,150	1-$0.99, 1-$2.99	$1,201
Jill Myles	6	932	6-$0.99	$323
Patricia Rockwell	2	1,745	2-$0.99	$604
Blake Crouch	6	14,122	1-$0.99, 4-$2.99 1-$399,		$4,893	$39,443
Sandy Knight	1	2,437	1-$0.99	$844
Michael Wallace	7	8,628	3-$0.99, 1-$1.49, 3-$2.99		$2,990	$24,098
David J. Canyon	2	1,203	2-$0.99	$417
Sandra Edwards	5	10,107	$3-$0.99, 2-$2.99		$6,995	$21,154
Eric Christopherson	2	3,000	1-$0.99 2-2.99		$1,040	$6,279
Ann Marie Novak	6	4,252	5-$0.99, 1-$2.99		$1,473	$8,899
J. L Bryan	5	2,460	1-$0.99, 5-$2.99		$852	$5,149
Paul Clayton	3	1,060	1-$0.99, 1-$2.99, 1-$4.99	$1,590
Jan Hurst Nicholson	5	3,475	4-$0.99, 1-$2.99		$1,204	$7,273
Julie Christenson	2	4,758	1-$0.99, 1-$1.29	$1,664
Victorine Lieskie	1	21,013	$1-$0.99	$7,281
Steven Hawk	1	1,970	1-($0.99 & 2.99)	$993
Ellen O’Connell	3	1,771	3-$2.99	$3.58
Abigail Lawrence	1	3,451	$0.99 US $1.13 UK	$1,253
Robert DuPerre	3	1,399	1-$0.99, 2-$2.99		$485	$2,928
Monique Martin	1	5,300	1-$0.99	$1,836
Jenna Anderson	1	1,250	1-$0.99	$433
Dana Estill	1	825	1-$0.99, 2-$2.99		$286	$1,727
M H Sergent	4	3,559	1-$0.99, 2-$2.99, 1-$3.99	$4,211

Does this offend anyone...especially those that posted? - Please don't "Quote" this in replies as if it others don't like seeing this I'll delete this post and "wish it away to the cornfield" so it never existed - but I thought it was interersting to say the least.

[Eric C]

Hmm, Eric Carpenter's numbers looks suspiciously like mine, i.e., Eric Christopherson. Who is this Carpenter fellow?

[EllenFisher]

Robin, I actually have fifteen titles (the others are under my pen name). 

[MH Sargent]

Seven Days From Sunday -- 2,049
The Shot To Die For -- 548
Operation Spider Web -- 476
The Yemen Connection -- 486

Total -- 3,559

Count me as a happy camper.

[jnfr]

Thanks for compiling the info, Robin. And congrats to all writers, with sales large and small, who have dared to put their work in front of the public and reap what benefits you can!

[jillmyles]

Just wanted to clarify that mine are for three titles only. My other three are through Smashwords or have various freebies going on, so I didn't count them.

[Pearson Moore]

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement about my March sales (260 units since March 13, when I published my first ebook).  I didn't mean to complain about low sales.  Not at all!  But I've been "marketing" for over a year.  If you watched LOST and you poked around even a little in the last season, you know my name.  It's all over the internet--on over 33,000 site now.  My Google numbers are comparable to long-established traditionally-published authors.  Based on readership of my essays I was predicting sales in the thousands for the first month.  But reality is a good thing, too.  I'm marketing and have new ideas coming up.

To those who requested that I post my book in my signature, well, I may do that at some point, but I'm still treading gingerly after being told I had committed bannable offences.  I mentioned my book in one or two posts, the last time to a fellow whose book had appeared on the same page as mine.  I thought that was nifty and brought it up in a post.  Apparently this constituted illegal promotion of my book.  So now I'm careful to not even mention the title of my book.  I mention in this post that I am an author only because it is the only way to reveal my sales numbers, which must be okay to do, or this thread would have been shut down.  But I've been very careful not to mention the title of my book, and anywhere else at KB I don't even mention that I write, unless, as with this thread, the invitation to post seems to demand that one disclose one's standing as published author.  The rules here are good, they're just a lot tighter than anything I've ever experienced before.  It's all to the good, and I'm trying my best not to violate any rules.  So it may be a few weeks or months before I get up the courage to mention what I write about and to resume a real author's signature.

[Rex Jameson]

These are really fascinating to read. Thanks for being so open about the monthly sales!

[LiteraryGrrrl]

Yes, thanks everyone!
Us newbies need this kind of encouragment.

And in case any other short story writer wants perspective from someone with a tad over 2 months under her belt, here are my numbers:

January: 10 (1 title published on the 15th)
February: 58 (2nd title published on the 6th, 3rd on the 27th)
March: 56 (4th title published on the 31st)

I was sad to see March's sales go down in comparison to February, and that was across all titles. Weird, but I heard a lot of other people bemoaning their March sales, too, so I guess I'm not alone.

Onward and upward!

Shana

[Atmcbom]

Hey everyone, I'm still a newbie for sure, my first novel Chaos Mortalitus, Book 1 went live on kindle March 23rd, 2011 and I've had 6 downloads so far.  Some of you with much more experience have such impressive numbers it can be a bit intimidating, but I'm having a blast either way.  Thanks to everyone who offered helpful advice, I look forward to where this road might take us all!

[Sarah Woodbury]

So . . .when the B and N numbers came in yesterday I shrieked at my husband.  Combined with Amazon, I had 548 sales overall and I couldn't sleep last night I was so excited.  Love, love, the indie route

[DanaG]

Robin, it doesn't offend me in the least - I find it very inspiring and helpful. I hope you keep it up here! 

[Jan Hurst-Nicholson]

Robin, thanks for doing this. I'm still waiting for my first cheque from Amazon.com. Did you take off the 30% tax for the monthly earnings? Many of us won't be able to get this back without an enormous amount of hassle. Thankfully my best sales are at Amazon UK.

[rsullivan9597]

Thanks for the corrections all - I incoprorated them - Eric I was confusing you with Steven Carpenter (author of Killer) sorry about that.  As for taking 30% off the top for overseas - no I did calculate pounds to US currency but just as I'm not adjusting income based on tax brackets I'm not adjusting for any tax issues - it would just get WAY to complicated.