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Apple’s Smashwords Update Due?

by MikeFook on February 1, 2011

Anybody have the slightest idea when Apple updates sales figures for Smashwords books they sell? Apparently they are up to date as of Nov 27th. Well dorks, that was more than 60 days ago. For a company making BILLIONS of dollars each year, you’d think they’d be on a faster payment schedule for authors – [...]

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Book Writing, Book Editing, Book Selling

by MikeFook on January 13, 2011

Ok, now I have 3 books in the works. I didn’t have access to the one I’m almost done with so I started others. “Kicking Life’s Ass!” is coming shortly – and is really one of my finest books. Still needs editing though. Any wanna be editors out there? Recent grads? Send me your rates [...]

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600 Books Per Month?

by MikeFook on January 6, 2011

It’s too early to get excited – but, I already am. I’d really like to sell 1,000 books per month – and I’m getting there much faster than I thought I would. Since I began watching sales stats on Amazon, I noticed something. If selling a certain number per day on average – that average [...]

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Got Talent? It Isn’t Enough – You Must SELL Something!

by MikeFook on January 5, 2011

I basically started writing a little bit back in 1996 – doing a journal about some Buddhist meditation I was having fun with. I didn’t write my first full-length (125,000 words) fiction book until 2007. Since then I’ve written more than probably 99% of you reading this. I’m not bragging – just telling it how [...]

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Selling 25 Books Per Day Now

by MikeFook on January 3, 2011

I keep giving updates on the number of books we’re selling – and it’s getting into the decent numbers now. Porsche payment numbers… or child support – however you choose to look at it. Through some crazy set of circumstances I find that we are now selling 25 books per day on average. In a [...]

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Book Pricing – Sometimes Higher is Better

by MikeFook on December 7, 2010

Pricing your books – how to go about it? First I went with the Amazon Kindle model – $9.99 books. I sold a couple of dozen at this price and thought – well, that’s it – that’s what I’m going to make online with my books every month. It wasn’t enough for a decent car [...]

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230 Books Sold in November (So Far)

by MikeFook on November 29, 2010

Still nothing like what we want to sell – but, will make for a nice christmas for someone (not us). As it works out from last month, we’re making about $1.65 per book sold through Amazon Kindle, pricing the books at $2.99 and opting for the 70% commission rate. Yes, that does = $2.10 per [...]

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Milestone – 200 Books Sold This Month?

by MikeFook on November 21, 2010

It looks like we’re on track to sell 200 books this month at Amazon. 200 is a nice number, but man we gotta ramp this up considerably if we’re going to make a living from it. I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to need to find a partner or two to [...]

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Kicking Life’s Ass! Now in the Final Days

by MikeFook on November 19, 2010

My new book is now 118 pages and I’ll start editing tonight. I’ll probably run it by an editor as well to clear things up for readers. I don’t write in a way that is easily understood when I write my deeper-meaninged work. I owe it to the readers to run it by an editor [...]

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October Amazon Kindle Book Sales

by MikeFook on October 31, 2010

I was hoping to hit 150 books sold this month, and I went over by 23 books. There are still 6 hours left until the end of the month, but I’ve got other things to do and have to knock this post out – so this will suffice. At this point I’ve sold 173 books [...]

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How Many Book Sales = Success?

by MikeFook on October 28, 2010

It looks like I’m coming up on 170 books sold for this month. That’s way over what I’ve sold in the past, but I’ve also priced them at what I think is ridiculously low. Most of my books are priced at $2.99 and I’m making an average of $2.xx per sale. How many books do [...]

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10/20 Books Sold – Numbers

by MikeFook on October 20, 2010

On the 20th of October I checked sales at Amazon and found there were 90 books sold during those 20 days. It looks like sales are on track to do 135 books by the end of the month. At the other sites sales have been slower than what I expected. I dropped the prices at [...]

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