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Title: International Bookbub results
Post by: Mysterywriter on July 18, 2019, 05:35:07 PM

Hi all!

As promised here are my results from the international Bookbub I had yesterday which ran in UK, Canada, Australia and India. This was on a first in series of four books at 99c.

Really happy with Amazon. Apple and Kobo, pretty disappointed in the rest so far. I have only just gone wide and was hoping this would kick start the other platforms.

I'll update these for news on the tail etc...

17th July...

Amazon: 433

Kobo: 156

iBooks: 92

Nook: 0

Google: 0

18th July (ongoing):

Amazon: 133

Kobo: 57

iBooks: 52

Nook: 0

Google: 0

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: Mysterywriter on July 18, 2019, 05:36:48 PM

I should add I hit number 1 in all my cats in Canada and two of them in Australia. Top 200 in UK right now.

The orange bestseller tag is nice... International bestseller anyone?.... Grin

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: VanessaC on July 18, 2019, 06:40:20 PM

Thanks for sharing.

Hope you've taken screenshots with the nice shiny orange tag for your collection? (I haven't had one yet, but fully intend to capture the moment if it happens!)

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: Mysterywriter on July 18, 2019, 07:07:18 PM

Quote from: VanessaC on July 18, 2019, 06:40:20 PM

Thanks for sharing.

Hope you've taken screenshots with the nice shiny orange tag for your collection? (I haven't had one yet, but fully intend to capture the moment if it happens!)

Thanks Vanessa, yes I have taken screenshots! It's very satisfying being number one in a larger category like cosy mystery. Next step is to try and get one in the UK...

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: notthatamanda on July 18, 2019, 08:47:42 PM

Congratulations!

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: natasha on July 20, 2019, 04:10:06 AM

Congrats and thanks for sharing your numbers!

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: LilyBLily on July 20, 2019, 07:18:09 AM

Congratulations. I hope it's a very long tail.  :clap:

Hmm...that sounds a bit weird. :hehe

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: Mysterywriter on July 20, 2019, 07:32:15 AM

Thanks everyone, numbers updated for yesterday!

I’ve just realised I should have clarified that these numbers are just for book one, not the rest in the series

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: Sailor Stone on July 21, 2019, 12:43:26 AM

regarding this: Really happy with Amazon. Apple and Kobo, pretty disappointed in the rest so far.

Just a thought: I would consider Kobo being only 1/40th the amount of Amazon in sales and Apple eBooks sales being about 1/10th in size.  From this perspective I would say your numbers look good.

Title: Re: International Bookbub results
Post by: Mysterywriter on July 22, 2019, 06:19:45 PM

Quote from: Sailor Stone on July 21, 2019, 12:43:26 AM

regarding this: Really happy with Amazon. Apple and Kobo, pretty disappointed in the rest so far.

Just a thought: I would consider Kobo being only 1/40th the amount of Amazon in sales and Apple eBooks sales being about 1/10th in size.  From this perspective I would say your numbers look good.

Thanks, I was hoping someone with more data wide would chime in. It's only been a few months for me so still working out the levels of the other markets.

Sales seem to have stayed at a certain level on Kobo and Ibooks which is great!