Notes from the accounts
Oct. 26th, 2008 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesThe October royalty statement from Loose Id arrived yesterday. Dolphin Dreams has just crept over the 1700 "copies someone paid hard cash for" mark. The bulk of those sales are through the publisher's own website, with around 12.5% coming from Fictionwise and a much smaller chunk from All Romance eBooks. No, I am not awake enough to sit here and calculate how much money total I've had off the book.
The book that's now been in print longest, Promises To Keep, is still selling a slow but steady double handful of copies each month after four years on sale, which is good because we've only just switched it over to the current contract which auto-renews unless explicitly cancelled by at least one party. It was the last of my books still on the old contract, which had to be explicitly renewed by both parties. Amongst other things, this involves posting of hard copies of contracts back and forth across the Atlantic, and checking of same to see if there have been any interesting changes since last time. At least it's a good cure for insomnia.
L&M2 has dropped very slightly against similar period figures for the first book, but after three months on sale has sold almost as many copies as L&M1 did in its first three months. That's interesting, as my prior experience with series is that sequels have significantly lower sales numbers. I don't know whether this is because I'm picking up more readers who want to read what-happened-next, or because the yaoi cover art is attracting readers who are willing to pick up book 2 without having first read book 1. I'll be interested to see how the figures compare at six months on sale.
The book that's now been in print longest, Promises To Keep, is still selling a slow but steady double handful of copies each month after four years on sale, which is good because we've only just switched it over to the current contract which auto-renews unless explicitly cancelled by at least one party. It was the last of my books still on the old contract, which had to be explicitly renewed by both parties. Amongst other things, this involves posting of hard copies of contracts back and forth across the Atlantic, and checking of same to see if there have been any interesting changes since last time. At least it's a good cure for insomnia.
L&M2 has dropped very slightly against similar period figures for the first book, but after three months on sale has sold almost as many copies as L&M1 did in its first three months. That's interesting, as my prior experience with series is that sequels have significantly lower sales numbers. I don't know whether this is because I'm picking up more readers who want to read what-happened-next, or because the yaoi cover art is attracting readers who are willing to pick up book 2 without having first read book 1. I'll be interested to see how the figures compare at six months on sale.