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Any Canadian Erotica Readers Out There?
I am mostly in the dark about my sales. Amazon gives me a running tally but it's not in real time. Smashwords lags behind a month or more before issuing sales reports.
I use smashwords to sell titles on Apple iTunes so that lag can be frustrating. You can imagine my elation at finding a website/app called BookChart.info that tracks iTunes eBook titles in each genre, by country, and updates the chart every day.
The Big Catch is it only tracks the Top 100 Sellers. I didn't expect to be in the Top 100. Still it was better than nothing.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that I did occasionally crack the USA Top 100 and, not only that, I had half a dozen titles that were daily fixtures on the
iTunes Canadian Top 100 Erotica Titles .
In fact, in April 2012, my story 'Legs' reached the Number One spot three times. Too bad it didn't bump up my sales.
Evidently being on the chart doesn't reflect sales at all.
I know these charts are not 'Official' and official ratings charts such as Amazon's can have upward movement without actual sales for some reason anyway(possibly your book gets some page views but no sale?). I understand that.
This chart tracks something though, right? The Top 100 titles should have at least one sale each, don't you think?
The titles and authors that appear on the chart are not just random. They match up with the authors I see high on the ranking schemes of other ebook sites.
It violates the terms of service, as I understand them, to reveal my actual sales figures. That makes writing a post like this difficult.
The upshot is why would an author's book appear in the Top 100, over and over again, and not record sales?
I have watched this situation for several months now looking for a reasonable explanation. I don't see one.
More than once I have emailed the person that developed the chart but received no reply. Smashwords is no help. I'm sure they would say they report the numbers that iTunes gives them.
As it stands this post is a lament about the lack of timely sales information. I've read worse blog rants.
I hope it's be more than that.
Are there any Canadian readers out there that have purchased my stories on iTunes?
Does the chart seem right?
Are there any authors that use the BookChart.info chart to track their books? Does it seem accurate to you?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
I use smashwords to sell titles on Apple iTunes so that lag can be frustrating. You can imagine my elation at finding a website/app called BookChart.info that tracks iTunes eBook titles in each genre, by country, and updates the chart every day.
The Big Catch is it only tracks the Top 100 Sellers. I didn't expect to be in the Top 100. Still it was better than nothing.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that I did occasionally crack the USA Top 100 and, not only that, I had half a dozen titles that were daily fixtures on the
iTunes Canadian Top 100 Erotica Titles .
In fact, in April 2012, my story 'Legs' reached the Number One spot three times. Too bad it didn't bump up my sales.
Evidently being on the chart doesn't reflect sales at all.
I know these charts are not 'Official' and official ratings charts such as Amazon's can have upward movement without actual sales for some reason anyway(possibly your book gets some page views but no sale?). I understand that.
This chart tracks something though, right? The Top 100 titles should have at least one sale each, don't you think?
The titles and authors that appear on the chart are not just random. They match up with the authors I see high on the ranking schemes of other ebook sites.
It violates the terms of service, as I understand them, to reveal my actual sales figures. That makes writing a post like this difficult.
The upshot is why would an author's book appear in the Top 100, over and over again, and not record sales?
I have watched this situation for several months now looking for a reasonable explanation. I don't see one.
More than once I have emailed the person that developed the chart but received no reply. Smashwords is no help. I'm sure they would say they report the numbers that iTunes gives them.
As it stands this post is a lament about the lack of timely sales information. I've read worse blog rants.
I hope it's be more than that.
Are there any Canadian readers out there that have purchased my stories on iTunes?
Does the chart seem right?
Are there any authors that use the BookChart.info chart to track their books? Does it seem accurate to you?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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