Friday, June 9, 2017

Amazon Finally Provides All Time Sales Data...And a Wake-up Call

Wednesday night I checked my Amazon sales and saw Amazon had changed their graphs from line graphs to bar graphs.  That's not much of a big deal, but what was far more interesting was they finally after 8 years let you see sales data since the inception of your account, which in my case was 2009.  This was something I had been yearning for so I could get a better idea of what was selling and what wasn't.  I suppose I could have kept track myself but to do that I'd have had to start within the first 3 months and then keep track of it each month ever since.  This was certainly a lot easier.

It was a wake-up call to finally see the sales data from 2009 to April 2017.  Here are some interesting statistics:

I have 211 books on Amazon.  Eric Filler has 146, P.T./Patrick Dilloway has 47, and Ivana Johnson has 18.

The bestselling book:  Transformed Omnibus, Volume 1 by Eric Filler

Bestselling Book (P. Dilloway):  Where You Belong (yay!)
Bestselling Book (I. Johnson):  Time & Space

Top 5 Bestselling Books:
  1. Transformed Omnibus, Volume 1 by Eric Filler
  2. My Wife Changed Me Into a Pinup Girl by Eric Filler
  3. Regressions Age Regression Omnibus by Eric Filler
  4. Where You Belong by Patrick Dilloway
  5. Transformed Into a Pregnant Girl by Eric Filler
Top 5 Underperforming Books:


  1. Mortal Sins
  2. Virgin Territory
  3. When You Were Young
  4. Last Dance
  5. Chet Finley vs Machines of Fate


All by P.T. Dilloway (yay?)

But the Wake-Up call came when I broke the Eric Filler stories into two categories:  Erotica and Age Regression.  There are 91 erotica stories and 41 age regression stories and yet on average the age regression stories make about $50 more.  Though 3 of the top 4 Eric Filler books there are erotica titles, on the whole they don't make as much as the age regression ones, which is pretty much the opposite of what I had been thinking.  So maybe now I should focus more on those and less on the erotica books.

4 comments:

Cindy said...

Give the people what they want. It also could be a less saturated market.
The upgraded sales data is great.

Michael Offutt, Phantom Reader said...

Fantastic, Pat. Glad to see you are getting what you want from Amazon.

Maurice Mitchell said...

Congrats on the sales Pat. I checked the Amazon page for "Where you belong" and your reviews are impressive! It looks like age regression is the way to go.

Nigel G Mitchell said...

That is interesting. I haven't dipped into my sales data yet, but it seems very useful. I also thought erotica would do better - like Cindy said, it's probably less saturated and less competitive.

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