I put Autopilot on Kindle on March 1, 2011. Here are my sales numbers for 10 months of 2011:
Sales: 251
Royalties: $143.19
(Advertising Cost: -$20.00)
Almost all of the sales were to strangers. I stopped promoting it in April. Without any promotion, sales never dipped below 16 copies per month. And then in November and December, there was a significant uptick. Holiday season? More kindles in the market? We'll see.
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Considering it cost me zero dollars and I'm now on the virtual shelf along side every other author and I got to have my cover the way I wanted, and I'm not responsible for a warehouse full of unwanted printed copies, I'm quite pleased that none of the hundred literary agents I contacted wanted me as a client.
At this rate, I'll be able to quit my day job in 2478. Not that I want to anyways.
One of my resolutions is to publish a volume of essays on Kindle in 2012. Obviously it's not for the money. It's just nice to live in a time where I can publish as officially as Palahniuk on my own terms.
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