Total e-books sold..................................................3,120
Total paperbacks sold............................................31,485
Total books sold....................................................34,605
Average e-book sales price.........................$2.50/$7,800
Average paperback book sales price.....$10.00/$314,850
Total Gross Sales on Amazon, (estimate).........$322,650
Total Royalties Paid (my profit)..............$108,126
Average sales over 10 years........................$10,812/year
Average royalty per book........................................$3.12
I look at book sales from the royalty per book point of view. That is the money I put in my pocket.
I also sell books in PDF format on several websites. I use Gumroad.com to take the orders and deliver the files. I primarily sell my geography coloring books, which have a sales price of $5.00/book. I also bundle them which pushes the unit price up to and makes the average price $7.12/book-bundle. This is a new direction for me and with the geography books and other titles, I have sold 457 books for $2,739.
I encourage you to look at all avenues for selling your books. Along with Gumroad.com I also use Etsy.com. We are a global world and with PDF you can sell and deliver your book anywhere and everywhere you have customers. It costs almost nothing to test and try.
Remember my principal, what can I do to have sales, try everything? It is a big planet with billions of customers and we are all connected.
Excerpt from How to Sell Your Book, How I Made $322,650 and Sold 34,605 Books On Amazon by J. Bruce Jones
J. Bruce Jones is an author and creator of over 50 books. Bruce teaches self-publishing authors how to publish their books. To learn more about Bruce’s latest project, How to Sell Your Book, How I Made $322,650 and Sold 34,605 Books on Amazon click here.
