“Update
on Downloads: Marauders are Coming”
I’ve just finished the first draft of the second
title in my Farpool series, entitled The
Farpool: Marauders of Seome. After some editing and cleaning up the story, this title is now available for download
at Smashwords.com and other fine ebook retailers. Look for
it. Marauders are coming.
In this post, I will provide another of my
occasional updates on the level of downloads I have been seeing across all
titles. Here are the facts:
|
Title
|
Week starting
8-7-17
|
Week Starting
8-14-17
|
Week Starting
8-21-17
|
Week
Starting 9-5-17
|
Week Starting
9-11-17
|
Week Starting
9-18-17
|
1
|
JW
& the Serengeti Factor
|
940
|
943
|
950
|
957
|
959
|
962
|
2
|
JW
& the Amazon Vector
|
724
|
727
|
733
|
739
|
740
|
743
|
3
|
JW
& the Hellas Enigma
|
687
|
690
|
694
|
699
|
699
|
703
|
4
|
JW
& the Golden Horde
|
620
|
623
|
627
|
632
|
632
|
635
|
5
|
JW
& the Great Rift Zone
|
627
|
632
|
635
|
638
|
639
|
642
|
6
|
JW
& the Europa Quandary
|
585
|
588
|
591
|
594
|
594
|
599
|
7
|
Final
Victory
|
104
|
104
|
104
|
111
|
111
|
112
|
8
|
The
Eyeball Conspiracy
|
153
|
153
|
153
|
153
|
153
|
161
|
9
|
The
Peking Incident
|
174
|
174
|
174
|
174
|
181
|
182
|
10
|
Root
Magic
|
88
|
88
|
88
|
88
|
95
|
96
|
11
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 1
|
618
|
619
|
619
|
620
|
621
|
622
|
12
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 2
|
497
|
498
|
498
|
499
|
499
|
500
|
13
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
3
|
400
|
401
|
401
|
402
|
402
|
403
|
14
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
4
|
370
|
371
|
371
|
372
|
372
|
373
|
15
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
5
|
345
|
346
|
346
|
347
|
347
|
348
|
16
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
6
|
312
|
313
|
313
|
314
|
314
|
315
|
17
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
7
|
298
|
299
|
299
|
300
|
300
|
301
|
18
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
8
|
264
|
265
|
265
|
266
|
266
|
267
|
19
|
The
Farpool
|
657
|
657
|
659
|
661
|
662
|
663
|
20
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
9
|
226
|
227
|
227
|
229
|
229
|
230
|
21
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 10
|
233
|
233
|
233
|
236
|
236
|
237
|
22
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
11
|
223
|
223
|
223
|
226
|
226
|
227
|
23
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 12
|
199
|
199
|
199
|
202
|
202
|
203
|
24
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
13
|
193
|
193
|
193
|
195
|
195
|
197
|
25
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 14
|
186
|
187
|
187
|
188
|
188
|
190
|
26
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
15
|
172
|
173
|
173
|
174
|
174
|
176
|
27
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
16
|
151
|
152
|
152
|
153
|
153
|
155
|
28
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 17
|
168
|
169
|
169
|
170
|
170
|
172
|
29
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 18
|
158
|
159
|
159
|
161
|
161
|
163
|
30
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 19
|
157
|
159
|
160
|
161
|
161
|
163
|
31
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 20
|
146
|
148
|
148
|
149
|
149
|
151
|
32
|
Nanotroopers
Episode 21
|
140
|
142
|
142
|
143
|
143
|
145
|
33
|
Nanotroopers
Episode
22
|
130
|
132
|
132
|
134
|
134
|
136
|
34
|
JW
& the Battle at Caloris Basin
|
207
|
211
|
214
|
218
|
219
|
225
|
35
|
Colliding
Galaxies
|
292
|
303
|
315
|
326
|
332
|
337
|
|
TOTALS
|
11444
|
11501
|
11546
|
11631
|
11658
|
11734
|
Several points should be emphasized about this
data. For starters, over the latest
three weeks, the increase week to week on total downloads has been 60, 27, 76
for an average of 54 downloads per week.
From the first column to the last, a time interval of about five weeks,
the total downloads change showed an increase of 290, for an average of about
58. So, it’s fair to say downloads have
been averaging over 50 per week for the last 5 weeks.
What does this mean?
It means to me that there are a steady albeit small increase in readers
every week, as shown in statistics from Smashwords. So that’s encouraging. But what’s really
interesting is what has happened to items 8 and 10. These were ebooks that had a price tag on
them of about $1.99 to $2.99. To see
what would happen and to jazz up downloads a bit, I set items 7, 8, 9 and 10 to
zero price. Then I saw an immediate jump
in downloads from one week to another for items 8 and 10. Readers don’t mind taking a chance on a
relative unknown when there’s no cost.
This was visible proof of that.
Also in recent weeks, I have modestly updated the
covers of my series Tales of the Quantum
Corps (Items 1-6, 34). Each continues to show a steady although
small increase in downloads every week.
I haven’t seen a huge spike in any of them, so I probably need to do
more.
Bit by laborious bit, I’m building a small audience
of readers. There are even some who have
my name on email notification so they’ll know when I upload something new.
Which leads me to The Farpool: Marauders of Seome.
This is a sequel to The Farpool,
itself already showing over 660 downloads after slightly more than a year. This title uploaded to
Smashwords a few weeks ago. And there are
more stories in the series coming. In
fact, at the end of Marauders, there
will be an excerpt from the story following it, called The Farpool: Exodus.
See you on October 9.
Phil B.
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