Wednesday, April 10th
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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
There was a point yesterday where the Tales of MU ebook had sold about 12 copies (6 the first day, 6 the second), and I was thinking to myself how awesome it would be if that ended up being a pattern, if it just kept on selling about that many copies. I don't think that's actually very likely... while the ebook has the potential to reach new audiences, it's not going to do it on its own in a big way. So there's likely to be a large initial burst of sales as the readers who've been waiting for it get it, and then it's likely to taper off unless and until I do something to push it in front of a wider audience.
(And I don't plan on doing that until I've got the second one ready... which may be sooner than I'd expected, but will wait until I've got the Nook edition straightened out.)
But the thought was so intriguing. Six sales a day is about $12 for me, which would mean an extra $300 a month, which is exactly the kind of shot in the arm my income's going to need.
And it was thinking about that that made me realize how much my original business plan (such as it was) had depended on the idea of monetizing my archives in a way that I haven't yet, that I have done all this labor and produced all this content and that each passing year the value of it has grown but I've done little to take advantage of it.
The book ended up selling more than 6 copies yesterday... as of this morning, there are a total of 21 sales in the US store, which as of this moment makes it #60 in the category of lesbian fiction (sidenote: I wish Amazon had a "queer fiction" category, as that's a better fit) and puts it at number sixteen thousand something overall. That's $40, or it will be... after doing business directly through PayPal for so long, it's kind of dispiriting to watch my Amazon numbers climb and know that I'll have to wait for those sales to translate to money in my account.
But that's something I'll have to get used to.
The State of the Me
Last night was the second night in recent days that I've had a random nocturnal muscle cramp interfere with my sleepytimes. This one was a blast-from-the-past calf cramp. Probably time for me to boost my potassium or something.
Plans For Today
Today is a writing day for Tales of MU, which will put me through next Thursday. I'm going to be working on the Nook edition of the book this morning.
There was a point yesterday where the Tales of MU ebook had sold about 12 copies (6 the first day, 6 the second), and I was thinking to myself how awesome it would be if that ended up being a pattern, if it just kept on selling about that many copies. I don't think that's actually very likely... while the ebook has the potential to reach new audiences, it's not going to do it on its own in a big way. So there's likely to be a large initial burst of sales as the readers who've been waiting for it get it, and then it's likely to taper off unless and until I do something to push it in front of a wider audience.
(And I don't plan on doing that until I've got the second one ready... which may be sooner than I'd expected, but will wait until I've got the Nook edition straightened out.)
But the thought was so intriguing. Six sales a day is about $12 for me, which would mean an extra $300 a month, which is exactly the kind of shot in the arm my income's going to need.
And it was thinking about that that made me realize how much my original business plan (such as it was) had depended on the idea of monetizing my archives in a way that I haven't yet, that I have done all this labor and produced all this content and that each passing year the value of it has grown but I've done little to take advantage of it.
The book ended up selling more than 6 copies yesterday... as of this morning, there are a total of 21 sales in the US store, which as of this moment makes it #60 in the category of lesbian fiction (sidenote: I wish Amazon had a "queer fiction" category, as that's a better fit) and puts it at number sixteen thousand something overall. That's $40, or it will be... after doing business directly through PayPal for so long, it's kind of dispiriting to watch my Amazon numbers climb and know that I'll have to wait for those sales to translate to money in my account.
But that's something I'll have to get used to.
The State of the Me
Last night was the second night in recent days that I've had a random nocturnal muscle cramp interfere with my sleepytimes. This one was a blast-from-the-past calf cramp. Probably time for me to boost my potassium or something.
Plans For Today
Today is a writing day for Tales of MU, which will put me through next Thursday. I'm going to be working on the Nook edition of the book this morning.