How many e-books are you selling?

only 2 or 3..From my website.

You will sell 90% of all your ebook in the first 7 days of your launch.

Ebooks as in Ebook products?

When I used to be involved in SEO I sold some Jewelry E-books.

In the first month or 2 I made little to no sales because people didn't know who I was. Once I started creating lots of backlinks to my website and the search engines ranked my keywords higher, I then started to sell about 4 books a month.

It was not until month 6 that I would average 20 to 30 e-books a month.

Back then I got hit by the dreaded nasty google update which affected my and many other internet marketers websites, and severely dropped rankings.

So yea, ten number one tip is to distribute quality content on the web and provide links to the page were you are selling your E-book
patience also goes along way!

about 3 fiddy

I sell courses 2 last week for $244.

The important thingsì is how much do you sell (how mauch do you earn)!

I see it as sort of a numbers game... the more you have out there, the more likely you are to make more sales every month. So, don't limit to a certain number. I keep working on publishing, publishing, publishing. And those aren't all just for sale...some are for spreading my content online to generate traffic and affiliate sales.

It all depends on your niche

Some Kindle niches are so hot that you only have to have ONE book to do well

Others have such little demand that you have to literally PEPPER the category to get some beer money at the end of every month.

Do your niche research.

There are tons of WSOs and War Room materials that teach you how to do this

Like icoachu said, some categories will be super easy to make sales, others, not so much. But, you have to promote your books, or they will get lost in the sea of books on Amazon. And, they have to be good quality. No rubbish, copied or PLR-copied-into-an-ebook.

Believe in your books, promote like they're your kids, and keep on writing...the more, the merrier. People can trust a brand with lots of content to choose from much easier than someone with one or two one-off books.

Hope that helps!

Really depends if you are continuing to actively promote the product...? there are other ways to drive traffic to your offer other than launches...

I have products that I still see sales from every month even after a year

I sell between 1-6 copies a day on Kindle of my ebook. It's been on there since December.

A ton and of sales flood in when you first launch and then thing slow a little. But if you keep working on your ranking, you can keep sales steady.

Hi. I've been publishing on Kindle since 2012. I publish Erotica. You can see my books by searching "DigiSmith Press" on Amazon (NSFW). I also have my books on Nook, Google Play, and audiobooks on Audible.com. I make about $6000+ a month

Over 7 years, I've worked my way down to none. I've written several Ebooks that pertain to my North American horse racing publication, and over that same 7 years my publication has had major impact on the horse racing industry.

Mostly because my most and earliest buyers were various "front" people for the horse racing industry itself. It is funny, looking back, because last weekend we finally get a Triple Crown winner after 37 years of not, because the industry has been my best students.

Not profitable at all, but I can say that the internet is the best way to circulate information widely, and quickly.... profitably is the very hard part. If your information is any good at all, "the powers that be" will suck it up and distribute it faster then you can think of the next idea.

I've been a member here since the early days on internet marketing, and today I will say that you are best to develop your network first, your info product second. The only way you will make a profit as an info developer is by rolling it out lightning fast and distributing it widely, just as fast.

The whole time you are building, the corporate competition is looking to suck up what you have, if it is any good. I sold Ebooks on Amazon until kicked out, the "powers that be" don't like competition.

I have a product that makes my e-Books compatable with Amazon so that is the only way I sell. But, I have only sold a couple that way. I need to purchase the software so I can do my own e-Book and offer directly through my web site. Amazon is NOT the best way to sell e-Books. Found out the hard way.

Hi Luke! I sell anywhere from 25-250 eBooks from my site each month. My eBooks are for a target market (pet business owners) and I'm a pretty well known pet business coach (been coaching for nearly 15 years) so that helps. My books also sell very well on Amazon print version. I have over 40 products plus eBooks and lots of affiliates who sell my products/eBooks. If any affiliates are out there who would like to tap into this niche, feel free to contact me.

Assuming that your website is well-built with good copy and converts well, then it is about traffic. Traffic can be from
- paid source
- organic source

to validate that you really have a product that people will pay for, just pay for traffic. You will get to know this immediately. Put a budget of $10, $20 or whatever you are comfortable with. Even if you lose money, but made some sales, that proves -- PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR YOUR EBOOK / PRODUCT.

After that, it is about tweaking it for profit. You can work on SEO traffic, tweak your copy, create a new funnel, test out different pricing, test out different ads, etc...

All the best.

I wrote a "How to" book and contracted with Amazon to sell it. I received three dollars and fifty cents from Amazon after two years, so I agree, don't try to sell anything with Amazon.
I would like to know from all our correspondents what they find is the best way to sell books. What about emails to a paid email list? Some of us have sold a lot of books that way.

Revenue Gal is right, it is a numbers game. As I add more books, my monthly sales keep increasing.

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Without giving you an exact amount...

It's a good amount

There's too many factors that go into it...

The biggest one being which product I choose to promote the most.

Either way...

The more new customers I bring in...

The more sales I make for all of the products I have it.

about 24 a year

I sell a kind of eBook on my web site and sell between 0-5 a day. It's not the main source of income, so the low numbers don't matter.

Not a big only 3.

Firstly why aren't you selling through Amazon? It is where the 'Big' sales are.


MY story is quite complicated, however I notice the other answers fall into two categories, those who know what they are talking about, and those who only think they do?


There is a difference between fiction and none fiction, fiction is down to how well you write and tell a story, and then good editing.


None fiction is much more complex.


However both require good editing, I have de-listed my best seller, it was a niche market 'English medieval history' however I was only outsold by BBC backed Michael Wood. But I de-listed because of quality, although I had edited the book at least 8 times complete, and some sections over 20? I still found flaws in the punctuation, or in how I had worded something.


This is where having a good independent editor comes in, they cost money, but are worth every penny. Fiverr/Fivesquid are your friends.


At the moment I am struggling to get my first sales on a topical subject, 'Magna Carta', however the previous book de-listed, ~A concise History of England 'Dark Ages to the Vikings'~ sold a couple of hundred copies, and I shall have it re-edited and out again this year.


It will be in all formats, which is why I can't understand why you are losing sales (and sales promotion) by not having your book on Kindle.


I use question and answer forums and Twitter to promote my book, at sometime I shall reinvigorate my various facebook profiles.


I find though Facebook is an age difference thing, as a rule of thumb, I find twitter has an older age group profile, facebook is great for under 30s with time on their hands?


Now I must go, there is a W-7 form to fill in for my U.S tax returns lol.

Personally, there's no success with at all. However, running autoresponder of huge list of time to time product promotion, does so much to generatings sales.

Not on Amazon? Almost nothing. Smashwords, RPGnow, Lulu, etc. All combined, all non-Amazon places, I sell maybe 7 to 12 copies of each title a year.

On Amazon, that's another matter entirely. All of my Amazon titles are Amazon exclusive so they are in Kindle select, Kindle Unlimited, and a signed up for the Free days promos and Count Down Deals. I haven't had much luck with the CDD so I rarely use them. The Free Days on the other hand, always have a long tail sales effect AND a sharp boost in KU borrows.

How many sales, varies depending on the current promo I'm doing, the time of the year (holidays effect sales), and the genre of the book in question. I have 15 pennames and 170+ titles spread across them. I can usually plan on each book to sell between 1 to 3 copies a week. (Yes, I set my goals low.)

Hold on a second and I'll go look at my dashboard and tell you what my sales for this week are...

...Okay, I'm back...here is what I've sold in the past 3 days: (On Amazon - which will show you why I'm such a big fan of selling on Amazon)

Okay, 9 titles have had sales in the last 3 days:


1 T.N.o.T.S.U. (Fiction, Novel, Monster P-o-r-n Volume 1 of a serial, 190 pages, $2.99) 30 copies sold

2 W.T. (Fiction, Horror, Short Story, 24 pages, .99c) 16 copies sold

3 T.N.o.t.R.L. (Fiction, Short Story, Erotica Volume 1 of a serial, 12 pages, .99c) 8 copies sold

4 W.t.H.I.t.C. (Fiction, Horror, Short Story, 8 pages, .99c) 4 copies sold

5 T.V.L.o.F.M. (Fiction, Novel, Monster P-o-r-n Volume 5 of a serial, 160 pages, $2.99) 3 copies sold

6 E.F.R.P. (Non-Fiction, Writer's Guide, 90 pages, $2.99) 3 copies sold

7 Q.a.T.V.I.T.S.o.D. (Fiction, Novel, Monster P-o-r-n Volume 8 of a serial, 175 pages, $2.99) 1 copy sold

8 H.W.G.S.T.A. (Non-Fiction, Cultural Studies, 400 pages, $2.99) 1 copy sold

9 T.G.o.W.M. (Fiction, Horror, Short Story, 32 pages, .99c) 1 copy sold



Income wise that translates into this:

1 $2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 30 = $62.70

2 .99c x 35% = .35c x 16 = $5.60

3 .99c x 35% = .35c x 8 = $2.80

4 .99c x 35% = .35c x 4 = $1.40

5 $2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 3 = $6.27

6 $2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 3 = $6.27

7 $2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 1 = $2.09

8 $2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 1 = $2.09

9 .99c x 35% = .35c x 1 = .35c


Grand total is $89.57 income in 3 days from 67 books sold.

If those sales were consistent all year, that would average out for about $10k a year. But I have weeks of 100% ZERO sales and I have weeks of several hundred sales, so that offsets things quite a bit. I have weeks of .35c income and days of $600+ income. It's all over the place.

All but 2 of these books have been out for more then 6 months.

What did I do to promote them? Absolutely not one damned thing. Monster P-o-r-n sells itself and everything just follows along for the ride.

January to May are my low sales months. Sales pick up in August, then take a huge spike last week of October (Monster p-o-r-n and Horror sales go through the roof the week before Halloween, each title selling as many as 198 copies a day - 198 is the most I've ever sold of any one title in any one day - that was the same title that sold 30 copies so far this week.)

I don't have a single book that qualifies as a best-seller. Most of them a super lower ranking bottom feeders with a sales rank between 800,000 to 2,000,000. Major low ranking bottom feeders here. Most of my titles sell only 1 copy a week. But you got to keep in mind I have 170+ titles on Amazon, most priced at $2.99 so, it only takes 1 or 2 sales per title per week, to add up fast, which is why I only aim for 1 to 3 titles sold per title, per week - if you have ENOUGH titles, you don't need a best seller to make a good income, you only need a huge amount of bottom-feeders to get yourself a good income.

Think of it this way:

170 titles @ $2.99 x 70% times 1 sale per title per week times 52 weeks:

$2.99 x 70% = $2.09 x 170 x 52 = $18,475.60

And I can plan on most of my titles selling 3 copies a week, not 1 copy a week, so

$18,475.60 x 3 = $55,426.80

Now take that and multiply it be multiple sales per title per day. I had 1 title this week already sell 30 copies in 3 days. You can see how fast it adds up.

In short, s-e-x with monsters, is a very good income for me, but you really have to love it enough to write a lot of it. In this genre you gotta just write, publish, write, publish, write, publish, write, publish, write, publish, write, publish, write, publish, repeat. You can't put up one or two titles and expect to make a full time income. Ain't gonna happen. But if you write a lot of it and put up at least 2 new copies a month, aim for at least 1 a week, you can do good in this genre. And I love writing freaky s-e-x with monsters, so, hey, best job in the world for me.

I don't know if my method of write, publish, repeat and not doing any promotion at all, other then Kindle's 5 free days once every 90 days, will work for other genres and niches or not. It works for me with monster s-e-x, that's all I know.

I've not found this to be true. Perhaps in your genre/niche maybe? I don't know what you write. But I write in 30+ fiction genres. I have 600+ short stories, 30+ novels, a few dozen stage plays, and 2,000+ non-fictions articles (most of which are in print not in ebook editions) and I've never seen a bulk wave of sales in the first few days, with the exception of Monster p-o-r-n. My Monster p-o-r-n gets a bunch of sales the first few days, only because I have a devoted fan following who wait for new releases, and jump on them hours of publication. My Monster p-o-r-n titles each get their biggest spike of sales within 5 hours of publication. My newest Monster p-o-r-n release sold 53 copies it's first hour of publication. But other then my Monster p-o-r-n, none of my other titles have ever had any big spikes in sales, either in the first 7 days or later on. They just sell pretty consistently a few copies per title per week, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Yeah...me and my bank account are gonna have to disagree with you. I'm sorry, but I've not had much luck outside of Amazon, but putting my books into Kindle Select, best thing I've done for my books.

Maybe your genre/niche just isn't popular with the folks who shop on Amazon? Don't know. I think a lot does depend on what it is you write.

But that is what I do! LOL!

I just use the Kindle Free Days. Once every 90 days, the title is free on Amazon for 5 days. I don't tell anyone about it. People who browse Amazon for free books, find them, download them, and then for the next few days sales across all my titles take a spike upwards. and with 170+ titles, that means I've got at least 1 free title out there ever week all year long.

Respectfully - leaving the sale of your ebooks to a "numbers game" analogy tells me people have no idea how to build an information-based business.

90% of my ebooks and information packages and services are sold outside of Kindle.

Look at it this way - for non-fiction - you are selling your market information that will help them transform their lives in one way or another. Lose weight, look better, live a happier life, train their pet so they can take pride in their companion, save or get a relationship, etc...

The real profit (and arguably value) can be delivered via higher-end information products and services - your lead-in product is really just a lead-generator. Same thing for print books - their main value is in branding you an expert, guiding your prospects to higher-end products and building that reputation/exposure - so as such your topic and treatment of your subject needs to be high-demand and widespread for your overall strategy to work

Fiction works a little differently in that your main product is the low-priced, low-margin books which means you have to make that up in sheer volume - very few authors can make a living, that may be ok depending on your goals.

Jeff

If Amazon is out, then zero.
But on Amazon and outlets, I have print, e, and audio.
Sales started okay, after seven months....trickle.

I've got books written, books in my head, and lots of skills from video to web to email bla bla bla. Bought every course since Adam, from $2k to $7. Got a library of about 200 courses about writing, Amazon, Kindling, building email lists, etc etc.

The responses to the question have been insightful, but I have a question of my own - Where does a very smart, prolific, deep thought writer like myself (19 years of college and a string of degrees) disabled veteran who's Achilles heal is focus and management find and hire a mentor or project manager?