Authors Will Drive Change | A Very E-Book Christmas « Catherine, Caffeinated
Well done to Catherine Ryan Howard whose Moustrapped has gone from strength to strength. She self published the book through Amazon’ s Digital text Platform and Createspace (for the print version). She had an impressive haul in December driven by huge ebook sales.
As ebooks become a more and more viable option (with POD picking up the slack in print sales) many more authors will adopt this route to market. It is only sensible.
That said, Catherine does remind us that she herself is no ebook fan!
While there was a spike in print copies in the lead up to Christmas, starting December 24th e-books went off on a course of their own. I’ve averaged about 180 sales per month since September but in December I sold 411 books. Of these, 365 were e-books and of those, 203 were sold between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve alone. And that is only e-book sales from Amazon Kindle’s US and UK stores – I won’t know how I did on the Sony’s, Barnes and Noble’s, Kobo’s or Diesel’s stores until Smashwords updates my sales data in a month or two’s time. 411 books is about what I sold in my first five months of sales, so that’s a pretty significant bump. Thank you, New E-Reader Owners!
