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Kindle Ebooks:Is There A Way To Judge How Many Have Sold

by dpwilliams
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Hello Warriors...

I'm doing some research on Kindle to determine if my project has demand. When I search my topic I get good results. Is there a way to tell how many copies have sold?

How do you determine if its a topic in demand.

Deb
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  • Profile picture of the author GoodFE
    Originally Posted by dpwilliams View Post

    Hello Warriors...

    I'm doing some research on Kindle to determine if my project has demand. When I search my topic I get good results. Is there a way to tell how many copies have sold?

    How do you determine if its a topic in demand.

    Deb
    Look at the ranking. Mine gets 5 per day and was ranked about 17,000. You can search google to find out what the rankings mean exactly. I think if you are top 1000 then you sell 100 a day, if in the top 100,000 about 10 a week and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author XYZcontent
      Originally Posted by GoodFE View Post

      Look at the ranking. Mine gets 5 per day and was ranked about 17,000. You can search google to find out what the rankings mean exactly. I think if you are top 1000 then you sell 100 a day, if in the top 100,000 about 10 a week and so on.
      Thanks for clarifying that, I had the same doubt.
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      • Profile picture of the author aprilm
        ThisThis book has some insight on what kind of sales to expect at different rankings.

        I have found it to be pretty accurate.

        No affiliation to the book or author FYI
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
    There is no set formula (that anyone knows of anyway) to accurately determine how many books someone has sold. Looking at book rank over a stretch of time can help in determining if a book is selling well but a #4 ranking for example, won't equate to "x" number of books sold.
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    • Profile picture of the author marciayudkin
      Rankings can be extremely misleading in determining or even guessing how many copies have sold. The reason is that the sales rank shows mainly how a book is doing RIGHT NOW. It doesn't show what happened in its sales last month or the month before or last year.

      I have 20 ebooks up on Kindle now, and they don't all sell steadily. One reason for that is that I may promote one or the other of them from my newsletter or in a guest blog post. Then that title shoots up in the rankings and gradually sinks again. Hence if you looked only at today's ranking for all my books you would miss some of the titles that sold a lot in the past but are selling sporadically now yet might get hot again next month.

      Put another way, my top-selling ebook for the month changes often from month to month.

      Marcia Yudkin
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    I'm looking for the same info. Here are a few passages from Ryan Deiss' free eBook, How To Sell 100 Kindle Books A Day:

    Based on our research, books with a Sellers Rank of 1000 to 3000 average 20 – 30
    sales per day.

    Books in the 10,000 Sales Rank range tend to sell 3 - 6 copies per day, and books in
    the 30,000 range only sell 2 – 3 copies per day.

    Again, for more accurate estimates you can use KDPCalculator.com…
    …just remember that any number is an estimate, at best, because Amazon keeps
    their data proprietary.

    Either way, if the top books in your category all have a Sellers Rank above 30,000,
    that’s probably a market that will be fairly easy to own.

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    Here's the KDP Calculator: Kindle Sales Rank Calculator - Ranking Your Kindle Book Sales

    Right now I'm wondering how ranking with a free promotion will translate to actual sales. I hit # 9 in Motivational with one of my titles yesterday. It's coming off the free promo at midnight. It will be interesting to see how it sells after the free period is up.
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