Monday, October 2, 2017


“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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