So here are the numbers for March, the first month that Spirit of Resistance is available in print: 11 e-books and 12 p-books. Total, so far: 71 books since last July. This is 57 electronic and 14 print, and does not include the 61 sample downloads from Smashwords where people did not pay.
Admittedly, the sales aren’t nearly as good as what I’d hoped for. Broken down by sales channel, this is what it looks like:
| Amazon | 42 | $93.16 |
| Barnes & Noble | 1 | $1.28 |
| Sony | 9 | $14.64 |
| Kobo | 3 | $4.97 |
| Apple | 4 | $7.24 |
| Smashwords | 2 | $4.61 |
| e-store | 10 | $50.12 |
The Amazon number includes four paperback sales as well. If, however, we look at the aggregate sales since the beginning, we see this:
Plotting this on a trendline gives me this hope:
Still, the solution to earning decent money from this is going to come from more books driving more sales to each other. And I’ve already got the strategies in place to pull that off. In summary, it’s not as good as I’d hoped, but certainly better than it’s been. And it’s going to be a long climb before we reach the tipping point.