Latest News from Inkwell
Inkwell Writer hits Amazon #1
For Inkwell Writer Sally Clements, the surge in eBook purchases around Christmas resulted in a major boost in her sales. Using clever marketing techniques and a lot of online savvy, romance writer Sally reveals on her blog Love and Chocolate what happened:
“In this, my first blog post of 2012, I’m reporting back on the results of making Bound to Love free on Amazon for 31 December and 1st January.
The amount of giveaways was…well, I’m speechless really! I had about 19,000 giveaways!
Bound to Love started back into paid on the afternoon of the 2nd January. Before it went free, I had sold 16 copies of Bound to Love in the US, good figures for me, and was feeling okay about everything. After…
Anyway, my rank when I came off being free was frighteningly depressing #263,827.
By Wednesday, I was at #133.
I got to #4 in fiction, and #1 in romance.
As at now, I’ve sold over 1,200 copies of Bound to Love, and my other book ranks are improving too.
Woo! ”
H. Darr Beiser, reporting for USA TODAY reveals just how the eBook market has grown:
“Carolyn McCosh says she has loved “real books, the printed-on-paper kind,” ever since she got her St. Louis Public Library card in first grade. The 45-year-old had little interest in e-books — until Christmas.
Along with millions of others, she unwrapped a Kindle Fire, a gift from her boyfriend and “a huge defining moment for me.” Since then, she has bought $100 worth of e-books — from histories to mysteries — and wonders, “Am I a traitor to printed books?”
McCosh is part of an unprecedented surge in e-book sales that’s changing publishing and challenging traditional bookstores.”
It’s logical that eBook sales increased when we learn that a million Kindles were being sold a week in the run up to Christmas. The Daily Mail reported:
“Amazon.com is selling more than a million kindle e-readers every week, the company revealed yesterday. News of the impressive sales came as the retailer moved to counter critical reviews of its new Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon said customers have been are buying ‘well over’ a million Kindles a week for three straight weeks. The sales figures include all versions of the device.
A spokeswoman for the company, which is the world’s largest online retailer, said Amazon has never released weekly sales figures before.”
The market is changing very very fast!
