Thursday, 21 December 2023

Book sales 2023 - and the best seller is...



Happiness is totting up your book sales for the year and finding a satisfying figure of (as of Dec 21st) 972 books sold. This is a combination of live sales at events and online sales through various outlets.

Almost a thousand books sold in a year, that's not bad going is it? (And December's Amazon/Lulu sales don't come in till mid Jan - here they are, add them on yourselves!). Given that, four years ago, I had no books to sell whatsoever, and that my first three graphic novels only came out in 2020. Then came the colouring books in 2021 through which I both discovered and then, at the end of 2022 lost, Amazon KDP. So these figures are very much a validation of 2023's model, selling at comic and book festivals, and getting onto Amazon via Lulu and D2D, with Etsy giving me another angle, and Blurb also existing.

The biggest sales route? With 392 books sold, that would be Live Events winning hands down.

Amazon/Lulu comes 2nd with 290 books sold that way; and Etsy comes third having shifted 131 books.

The biggest selling books of 2023 are

Findlay Macbeth - 133
Prince Of Denmark Street - 126 
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - 125
Richard The Third - 113
Eurovision Vol 1 - 60

 - with other colouring books all getting respectable figures, and the higher value items Tales From The Bible selling 23 and the Shakespeare Omnibus selling at least a dozen (sometimes I record it as "All 3 books" on the iZettle, so exact figures are vague).

Though I doubt it'll be readable, here's the table of sales. (There's an error, showing 18 PODS sold on Amazon in Feb, which had me thinking my total for the year was nearer 1000. Sadly this was a typo)



My Books and where to get them:

Richard The Third Amazon - Etsy - Barnes & Noble - Waterstones
Findlay Macbeth - Amazon  - Etsy 
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy - Kindle
Midsummer Nights Dream Team  - Amazon Etsy 
Shakespeare Omnibus Collection (all 3 books) - Amazon

Tales From The Bible - Amazon -  Etsy - Webtoons
The Book Of Esther - Lulu  - Amazon Webtoons
Captain Clevedon - Amazon
Tales Of Nambygate - Amazon  



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