My Last Sales Update

From time to time, I like to post my sales figures, just to let people know where I stand in regards to the relative success of my short story I’ve posted on various online ebook outlets. I think information should be free and freely available, shared and all that.

That’s kind of a guiding principal in my life, I tend to share stuff to people if they ask, and I like knowing stuff. Not necessarily anyone’s personal business, but things that are kept arbitrarily secret for no real reason bugs me some.

However, it was brought to my attention recently that publishing my sales figures could very well be a breach of the terms of service for those aforementioned ebook retailers, and they would be perfectly within their rights to pull my measly little short story and shut down my seller account.

Along with my desire to see information be free, I am somewhat pragmatic, and don’t have a burning desire to rail against the world for my terms of service agreement, which I did, after all, agree to. Not real sure I could expect to sway too many people to my way of thinking on this one, so I’m nipping this in the bud and caving to the draconian demands of my ebook selling overlords: No future sales numbers from me.

Also, on an unrelated note, I got an email from Amazon letting me know that my ebook will be available in Italy. I’m not saying that they opened up the whole country just for my little short story that has sold XX number of copies. But there is a bit of a spaghetti western vibe going on there, and I’d like to think they saw some potential and so decided to give it a go.

Update Time

If anyone has wondered why I've been such a looser about commenting, either here or at the blogs of others, lately. I apologize. I've been writing these posts in advance and not really been spending much time online this week. I'll try really hard to catch up this weekend.

Anyway, in an effort to be entirely open. I figure it's been long enough to throw out another update on my sales for A Dead God's Wrath.

Amazon:         15
Amazon UK:    2
B&N:               4
Smashwords:    1
Total:              22

I can't recall when I dropped my update last, but it wasn't too long ago. Regardless, I think I had something like 16 total sales at the time. I haven't continued at that type of pace, but I do find it interesting that there have been at least a sale or two to people I've never heard of. That's awesome.

Anyway, for the most part, it's been 22 sales to people who stop by this blog and read what I have to say on a pretty regular basis. For that, I thank you all.

The Fire Sale going on at Borders right now has meant that I've gotten a to be read pile that is at least waist high sitting next to my bed. Too bad I've already piddled away so much of my vacation time this year. It would great to do nothing but read for a week or two.

If you have one near you, run down there quick before they close the doors, books are so cheap I'm buying stuff I hate just because I can. I hope I don't warp my sense of value because of this, I could get used to paying $2 for a new book.