BookBub results 6-9 April 2019
This was an international FREE BookBub for the UK, CANADA, AUSTRALIA and INDIA only. I didn't do any other paid advertising and only used Readers in the Know, my Facebook pages, KBoards Book Bazaar, Goodreads and the KUForum in the UK to mention the promotion. The book is only available on Amazon. The target market is British expats (and people who know them ) who left the UK in the 1970s many of whom went to Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa.
The BookBub was from 6-9 April
I set it for free on 5th April and had 247 downloads
When the BookBub began on 6th April I had 4682 downloads
The BookBub PREDICATION for a free promo was 3600
My ACTUAL TOTAL downloads over the entire promo were 8723
In the UK it reached:-
#1 Free in Kindle Store
#1 in General Humorous Fiction
#1 in Humour (Kindle Store)
In CANADA it reached:-
#1 Free in Kindle Store
#1 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
In AUSTRALIA it reached:-
#3 Free in Kindle Store
#1 in Humour Fiction
#1 in Contemporary Fiction (Kindle Store)
(It could possibly have been higher, but due to my frustrating lack of internet I couldn't do a regular check)
In INDIA it reached:-
#17 Free in Kindle Store
#2 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
(This also could have been higher because I didn't do a regular check)
Interestingly, it also did quite well on Amazon.com reaching #513 and #10 in humor, perhaps because SA buys through .com.
It also had at least one download on every other Amazon site, including Japan, Brazil and Mexico, and did quite well on some of them.
Amazon DE
#124 Kostenfrei in Kindle-Shop (
Nr. 1 in Fremdsprachige Belletristik
Nr. 1 in Comics (englischsprachig)
Amazon FR
n°272 des titres gratuits dans la Boutique Kindle
n°1 dans Contemporary Fiction (Boutique Kindle)
n°1 dans Comic dans Ebook en anglais
The reviews/ratings from my target market have been good, and I've had some reviews on Amazon sites that previously didn't have any. (But the usual poor reviews after a freebie from people who are not my target market . But that is always a risk with humour anyway.)
It even got into the top #100 paid in Canada on 11th April.
#96 Paid in Kindle Store
#3 in Humorous
#24 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
The page reads and sales have now surpassed the cost of the ad, so I am very pleased with the result. Any further page reads and sales will be a bonus.