Rejections R Us (NEW CONCEPTS)

[Pete Jones]

I'm up one more click, a cool half dozen. No sales still, natch.

In worse, unsurprising news, I have received no reports that any of the 25 or so friends who bought it have actually read it. Mick Harper, my only reader to date, predicted this exactly.

[Mick Harper]

I wouldn't call myself a reader exactly -- it is not a subject area I am prepared to devote a coupla months of my life to, no matter how noble the cause. But one of the more fundamental takeaways from applied epistemology is:

[Pete Jones]

Kindle Direct Publishing presents a double-edged sword. It shows you, in real time, how much you are earning in royalties as people read your kindle version. Stephen King must be just giddy watching it.

But if you have only one buyer, then you know exactly how much they've read. And exactly where they quit reading.

[Mick Harper]

I'm puzzled. Do tell how. That is priceless information.

[Pete Jones]

your KDP dashboard should show something like the following.



It says "0 orders," but that's because the purchase happened in July.

When the reading started in August, it shows me that my buyer (my best friend, incidentally) has read 75 pages to date

[Pete Jones]

My friend read 55 pages one day, then 11 a week later, then 9 more last night

[Mick Harper]

I had no such feature. I would check but I never sell single copies of my Kindle books. Not a single one. I regard it as an unwarrantable intrusion, by the way. How often does he go to the lavatory, does it say?