*Three spanking pics under the written portion of this entry.*
My goal had been to have 4 books up on Amazon before the end of the month, but I am a little behind schedule and I’m not sure if I will have the 4th book finished by the end of the week. At the moment I am at 4,300 words, and my goal today is to get to 6,500 words. That is still a long way to get to the eventual goal of 22,000 words. If I bust my hump then I might get to 10,000 by tomorrow, but that is still woefully short.
One thing I have been keeping an eye on is the stats for each book. In the first two weeks and change, I have so far accumulated $91 in sales, and at the end of the week I will break it down for you. There is one very interesting thing that I have noticed though, and that is the Kindle Unlimited option where people can read the books for free. It was a big surprise to me that 80% of what I have earned so far has been from flat out sales of the entire book.
The Kindle Unlimited portion of sales only accounts for 20% of all earnings.
This is what caught my eye though, and that is the third book, shown below, has a disproportionately higher rate of free reads compared to the other two books.
My 3rd eBook
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My theory on this is as follows. Because the stories in book 3 are virtually all new stories, it is my guess that readers of this blog are the ones who have read it for free. Not everyone of course, I fully understand that a few people have been kind enough to buy the books as a thank you for the 18 plus years I have run this free blog.
Unfortunately you can’t get to see exactly what portion of the books have been read, but I also have another theory. As book 3 contains one F/M spanking story, I also have a feeling that a good number of free readers selected the book solely for that story, and they skipped the rest of the book. It might be too early to read into stats just yet, but I did find it fascinating that the book with the never before published stories, has been the one that people have been reading for free.
Now don’t worry, even though I have previously stated that for the month of February I had planned to use this blog as a means to kick start my new venture, you will still get spanking pics whenever I talk about the books. So here you go, some good old vintage OTK spanking fun.
Rich,
Again 3 gems.
The first two are excellent. The third I recognize from a Blushes magazine perhaps? I still have around 45 of those old British mags of the 70’s and 80’s. Blushes, Kane, to name two. There are more. There was a larger skinny mag that featured some really great stories, and pics, only I can’t place the name. Oh well, if you’re interested let me know!
Thanks for hanging in there and I love this new zest! Whatever you are taking, pass some to me or at least toast some from me! lol!
Jim,
Funny enough I also have a collection of magazines but I haven’t even looked at them in years, they are in a box somewhere. I know I have some old NuWest magazines, and lord knows what else. I need to dig them up one day as I plan to either give them away or sell them on Ebay. Same goes for all of my spanking toys, I literally have no need for them anymore, so other than a few sentimental ones, they will also be donated to a good cause 😉
Rich
Great finds.thanks for sharing.I had tried to respond to your post about spanking blogs and for some reason I could never get it to post. As you have said in the past how do you get rid of all the photos you have collected over the years in my case my collection was in the trunk of my car long story short it rained, trunk leaked 15 year collection gone in hours. I also think that there are less spanking blogs because many of the old guard have retired for reasons like you or that their time has decreased with more time being spent on what they were missing( vacations, time with family,illness computer problems. ,etc…) I think you are right about there being spam bots as inflating your numbers,but there was also viruses around that prevented a lot of people as well.thanks for all you have shared over the years. Enjoy your day.
Jim
Jim,
Plus we have to take into account that social media has changed and people want fast results nowadays. Plus, and this is obvious, the Internet is no longer a shiny new toy. Most people were saturated with spanking material that it became normal, whereas for us older folks, we remember the days before the Internet where you would go as far as to save newspaper clippings because you had nothing else. I’ll be the first to tell you, I barely visit any spanking blogs anymore outside of my own. Maybe once a month I will have a peek at a couple, but some months go by when I don’t even do that.
Rich