Statistics from Free Book
Hi Authors or interested parties,
As I promised to keep you up to date on what happened after I posted my book, Big Backpack–Little World, on Kindle Direct Publishing for free. It is one week later minus a few hours, and I am still reeling from the amount of downloads. The following are stats from last Sunday for free books, and those of today not free.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178 Free in Kindle Store on October 28th
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Adventurers & Explorers
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,566 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #7 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Adventurers & Explorers
- #15 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Adventurers & Explorers
- #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,127,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
From to days statistics you can see that my Kindle sales has shot up, but not so with book sales. I am still impressed with what the action of KDP did for me. I have tripled sales this week, and added two very nice reviews. I guess this isn’t that impressive with the 8,000 downloads I had last Saturday and Sunday, but I am totally happy.
I hope this is helpful to anyone that is considering KDP, or any free book offer. I especially hope none of this sounds bragging, but I do feel like bragging just a tiny bit.
ESL Donna 
Thanks for sharing the statistics – so interesting. I am one of the 8000 readers who chanced upon you book when it was free, and really enjoy the read. I blogged about it yesterday (so that makes it 3 reviews). Cheers from Germany! Dorothee
and here’s the blog post: http://virtual-notes.blogspot.de/2012/11/little-world-left-hand-of-darkness-my.html
WOW, thank you so very much. I love your blog, and looking forward to reading your book.
Hi Donna, so nice to get in contact with you – thanks for making the facebook connection, and for checking out my book. . it’s a beautiful small/big side effect of writing: the connections to other authors. and your kindle experience, it’s a good inspiration – it now made me think that i should go ahead and create an e-book version of my first book, and a friend of mine (who also happens to live in Mexico, near Puerto Vallarta) has her book free today on kindle, thought you might enjoy this: http://amzn.to/SSHwiH
Thanks for reading Dorothee, and did check out your friends book.