I am indebted to Brent Sampson, President & CEO of Outskirts Press, for the following article found on the net, extraordinarily detailed and full of disclaimers, but mighty interesting for all that... on how the Amazon rankings work.
It is quite addictive, checking in to see whether the book has sold a copy... and picking other books to see where they rank in comparison. Quite a timewaster!
So if you have a book on Amazon, check out what the rankings data means HERE
I also found a helpful graph, GRAPH HERE which shows weekly average sales against rankings.
On this basis, Bubble is selling between two and ten copies a week from Amazon. I am not thinking of retiring on the proceeds!
Showing posts with label selling books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selling books. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Thursday, 5 June 2008
SALT'S STORY BANK
A great initiative from Salt Publishing, great fiction, great value, and supporting the short story!
This from their website:
JOIN THE STORY BANK NOW
Support the short story now by subscribing to the best writing in our groundbreaking series of gorgeous books.
Each Story Bank cased edition is beautifully typeset for you in Gerard Unger’s Swift, and comes with a matt-laminated jacket designed by leading design agency The Cover Factory. Every copy is foil blocked with coloured endpapers and is printed in Britain on Vancouver Cream Bookwove paper.
Subscribe to Salt’s Story Bank for the best in new writing from the UK’s biggest champion of the short story.
Subscribing to Salt’s Story Bank is an excellent way of supporting short story writers, as well as supporting Salt’s efforts to keep the genre thriving.
From just £40 you can subscribe to Salt’s Story Bank for one year and receive the following benefits:
* Four luxury, first edition, hardback books, selected for you by our own Editor, delivered to you post-free
* 30% discount on ALL Salt books, including our full range of short stories, poetry and critical books
* A FREE copy of the highly-acclaimed Sawn-off Tales by David Gaffney as a welcome present to new subscribers
* Special offers and subscriber-only benefits
A subscription makes the perfect gift — just tell us the name and address of the recipient in the shipping information part of the order form, and tell us that it’s a gift in the comments box.
Share in our passion for the short story by subscribing today.
FULL DETAILS ON THE SALT WEBSITE HERE
This from their website:
JOIN THE STORY BANK NOW
Support the short story now by subscribing to the best writing in our groundbreaking series of gorgeous books.
Each Story Bank cased edition is beautifully typeset for you in Gerard Unger’s Swift, and comes with a matt-laminated jacket designed by leading design agency The Cover Factory. Every copy is foil blocked with coloured endpapers and is printed in Britain on Vancouver Cream Bookwove paper.
Subscribe to Salt’s Story Bank for the best in new writing from the UK’s biggest champion of the short story.
Subscribing to Salt’s Story Bank is an excellent way of supporting short story writers, as well as supporting Salt’s efforts to keep the genre thriving.
From just £40 you can subscribe to Salt’s Story Bank for one year and receive the following benefits:
* Four luxury, first edition, hardback books, selected for you by our own Editor, delivered to you post-free
* 30% discount on ALL Salt books, including our full range of short stories, poetry and critical books
* A FREE copy of the highly-acclaimed Sawn-off Tales by David Gaffney as a welcome present to new subscribers
* Special offers and subscriber-only benefits
A subscription makes the perfect gift — just tell us the name and address of the recipient in the shipping information part of the order form, and tell us that it’s a gift in the comments box.
Share in our passion for the short story by subscribing today.
FULL DETAILS ON THE SALT WEBSITE HERE
RITES OF PASSAGE, TRAVELLING SALESMEN, GENETICS
Reading my friend Sue Guiney's blog this morning, I came upon a great post. Sue is one of those writers who is talking about things as they are, not (like many) dressing up the writing world in pink ribbons, only talking about the nice bits...
She had a book signing organised in Waterstones, and sat there surrounded by her books, for a couple of hours...and she talks about the experience on her blog:
SUE GUINEY'S RITE OF PASSAGE...... including having to turn up with a bag of books as the store had not ordered any.
One thing hit home. Sue wryly compares the experience with a normal occurrence for a travelling salesman. And her grandfather was just that.
I discovered a while back that my natural father was also a travelling salesman. Only he peddled a little more than samples, encyclopaedias or whatever, in my case...
So selling is in the genes. My son is a brilliant salesman. And now you can see where we get it from... my foot in the door tactics just need a little sharpening.
She had a book signing organised in Waterstones, and sat there surrounded by her books, for a couple of hours...and she talks about the experience on her blog:
SUE GUINEY'S RITE OF PASSAGE...... including having to turn up with a bag of books as the store had not ordered any.
One thing hit home. Sue wryly compares the experience with a normal occurrence for a travelling salesman. And her grandfather was just that.
I discovered a while back that my natural father was also a travelling salesman. Only he peddled a little more than samples, encyclopaedias or whatever, in my case...
So selling is in the genes. My son is a brilliant salesman. And now you can see where we get it from... my foot in the door tactics just need a little sharpening.
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