Michael Lucas¹ :flan_molotov: on Nostr: My ability to identify my best-selling titles is negligible. Proper software to ...
My ability to identify my best-selling titles is negligible. Proper software to analyze every channel I use doesn't exist. I don't know how many of any title I sell.(Several cloud services claim to, but I won't build business analysis around cloud services. Cloud analysis services evaporate too frequently for me to trust them.)
Eyeballing this month's sales, though, #ryoms is outselling the next best seller by ~3:1. (Except Amazon, but it's not in Amazon's Kindle store.)
This is a shocking difference. Never seen anything like it, especially not sustained for weeks.
And no, I don't track how many of any given title I sell. Why would I? I write books that I believe will sell "well enough." Once the book exists, I learn if I'm right. If spot checks show the book sells, great! If it doesn't sell... what the heck am I gonna do about it?
So "Run Your Own Mail Server" seems to be selling? Great. That's cool. Thank you, Proton. You being terrible people has made my life better, sure. That's... not something to celebrate.
Eyeballing this month's sales, though, #ryoms is outselling the next best seller by ~3:1. (Except Amazon, but it's not in Amazon's Kindle store.)
This is a shocking difference. Never seen anything like it, especially not sustained for weeks.
And no, I don't track how many of any given title I sell. Why would I? I write books that I believe will sell "well enough." Once the book exists, I learn if I'm right. If spot checks show the book sells, great! If it doesn't sell... what the heck am I gonna do about it?
So "Run Your Own Mail Server" seems to be selling? Great. That's cool. Thank you, Proton. You being terrible people has made my life better, sure. That's... not something to celebrate.