May. 27th, 2013

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May royalty statement has just arrived from Loose Id. Items of interest:

-- First Footer's first quarter at ARe, 50 copies, first complete month at Amazon US 51 copies, nil to 3 everywhere else, including Loose Id's own website. It's a solo re-issue of something that was previously available for years in an anthology, so this pattern may not hold for a brand new title. (I'd expect higher numbers all round, for one thing.)

-- Buildup 2: Pulling Strings has finally reached 1000 copies sold since it was first released. *Exactly* 1000, copies, as it happens.

-- Almost all sales come from third party distributors these days. Whether that pattern would hold with a brand new release, I've no idea. The big ones are Amazon US, then ARe and B&N, but the cut varies from title to title and month to month. The other Amazons sell a steady trickle. It would appear that Sony readers are not into m/m erotic romance, or at least not *my* m/m erotic romance. And RIP Fictionwise.

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All of which prompted me to check the statistics on the short story I have up as a free download at Smashwords, Naked. That went up at the end of October last year, and has accumulated 454 downloads as of this morning, i.e. in seven months. It's running at around 1 download a day these days.
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Much as I love my Cybook Gen3, it's elderly. So I had it in mind to get one of the Nooks that were being flogged off at £30, should I be able to find one. Of course, there were none to be had, but in my wanderings around the Arndale Centre on Friday night just to be certain, I noticed that WH Smith were having a one day only special on Kobos - £20 off all models. Which made the Kobo Mini £30...

So I now have a Kobo Mini, which I have not actually plugged in and set up yet and thus cannot report on. However, if any other UK resident is interested in getting a cheap Kobo, keep an eye on your local Smith's, since they seem to be running this as an occasional promotion. The purchase included a multi-use discount voucher for 20% off any accessories I buy between now and August.

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