These Lives stats Sep 2024

​I published THESE LIVES in March 2023.
Total sales as of today: 503 copies, out of which 39 are print and 464 are eBooks.
I did not do serious marketing until about 4 months ago. I saw sales increase as a result. The best for me is Amazon ads, and I will explain how this worked for me in a new post. 

​There is another way to look at your book value on Amazon. I am talking about the pages read on Kindle Unlimited since I have my book in that store. In my calculation, Amazon pays around 1 USD for 200 pages read in Kindle Unlimited.
Those paying subscriptions can read any number of books they want from the store. They often read a few pages, dump the book, and go for another. So, how many subscribers read my whole book? I would say around half of them. Considering their habits, as described by other bloggers, I think it is an achievement.
How do I estimate how many went through my whole book? I do not talk about those who bought copies since there are no statistics, but Amazon subscribers to Kindle Unlimited.
It happens occasionally, maybe a few weeks apart, to see 10 to 50 pages read (Amazon calls it KENP). Then, I looked the following days, and if I saw that number increase like somebody was reading, and if in a few days, a week or so, the number of pages matched my book, I concluded the guy read it all. Of course, this could be misleading since another reader jumped in and read only part of it. My conclusion is that about half do read the whole book. The total pages on KENP to the day: 5910. Below is the list of Kindle Unlimited reads. Obviously, the guy from India reading only 20 pages gave up after the first 2 chapters. In Australia, if there was only one reader, he/she went through half of it. But I stick to my estimation; half of them read it all. Well, only Amazon knows the truth.

​Note: The books downloaded by subscribers do not show up in sales, there are separate statistics.
In my next post, I will go through ranking. There are many angles to look at it, and I find it fascinating.