33,539 E-books Sold In One Month

Nick Russell · Dec 5, 2011

I cannot believe it myself, but on Sunday, my mystery Big Lake sold 1,000 copies on the Kindle bookstore, and has risen to #49 of all paid Kindle books, and #6 of all Amazon Mysteries & Thrillers.

I was reluctant to get into e-books, believing we were still a few years away from them really taking off, but I was wrong. Now I am convinced that if you write a decent book and market it well, the sky is the limit. The old publishing model is history, in my opinion, and we have entered a brand new world.

merrihiatt · Dec 5, 2011

Wonderful news, Nick. All your hard work has paid off. Enjoy!!! You deserve every moment of it. I couldn't be more thrilled for you!

Kathleen_ · Dec 5, 2011

Wow, that's fantastic! Well done!

Elvirnith · Dec 5, 2011

That's fabulous. It's why when people compliment me on how many I've sold I just kind of shrug and think to myself, "I haven't achieved anything yet." I have a long ways to go.

shaldna · Dec 5, 2011

That's great news Nick.

Isabella Amaris · Dec 5, 2011

Congratulations!

Macca · Dec 5, 2011

Wow! That's incredible. Well done & congratulations, Nick.

Wayne K · Dec 5, 2011

This means you're buying

Congratulations. Sounds like you're doing great

pengwinz · Dec 5, 2011

Love hearing these kinds of stories. Keep up the good work, Nick!

Nick Russell · Dec 5, 2011

Thanks everybody. I'm working on a sequel now. I think I'm more nervous about it than the first. I keep asking myself "What if it flops and you're a one hit wonder?"

Ari Meermans · Dec 5, 2011

It won't and you're not.

Congratulations, Nick!

StoneWheller · Dec 5, 2011

This is great news! I'm happy for you. I want to know what you did to promote the book.

Shika Senbei · Dec 5, 2011

StoneWheller said:
I want to know what you did to promote the book.

Me too!

Nick Russell · Dec 5, 2011

Here is a blog post I wrote a while back about my marketing efforts
http://publishing4profit.com/blog/2011/08/04/how-i-sell-e-books-q-a/

Misfit · Dec 5, 2011

Thats awesome news, Nick. Congrats

J. Tanner · Dec 5, 2011

Congrats, Nick.

I've been following your progress from your other thread and, while good news, that sounds like an extreme jump rather than a gradual climb.

My guess from your prior posts was you were selling maybe 5-10 copies a day.

Is that basically true of the days prior to Sunday, or did you gradually climb to days of 50, 100, 500, etc before hitting this mark?

(If it's an instant jump you'd think it must have been caused by some specific event...?)

brianjanuary · Dec 5, 2011

Awesome! I love it!

Brian January
http://amzn.com/B005WM0HN6
http://amzn.com/B006QCZF3S

merrihiatt · Dec 5, 2011

I believe Nick was already seeing an increase in sales each month and then when he got a new cover, it jumped up even quicker in the Amazon rankings.

Nick, you're not a "one hit wonder." This is only the beginning. People like your style of writing, that won't change.

Hiroko · Dec 5, 2011

With this information, world domination for you is ever closer...

Just kidding. Congratulations; if this first book is selling well, why wouldn't the sequel? Consumers love sequels!

Lady MacBeth · Dec 5, 2011

Nick Russell said:
Thanks everybody. I'm working on a sequel now. I think I'm more nervous about it than the first. I keep asking myself "What if it flops and you're a one hit wonder?"

1000 people can't be wrong. Congratulations!

kaitie · Dec 5, 2011

Congrats!

Nick Russell · Dec 5, 2011

Merrihiatt is correct, the numbers have been growing all along, but they have exploded in the last six weeks.

In July I sold 103 copies, August was 125, September 247, October 545, November 4283, and so far this month 3285. I uploaded the new cover a few days ago, and that really helped.

pixydust · Dec 5, 2011

Wow, Nick! That's awesome!!!

Shika Senbei · Dec 6, 2011

So you need a blog to generate sales? Alas, I have absolutely no idea what to put in a blog.

Huntnpeck · Dec 6, 2011

Maybe you need a good cover and oh yeah, a good book.

Congratulations Nick

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