Time seems to fly – I just wrote about the AllStar payments in October and now we are already in the middle of December. That means I have new numbers to share, provided by a record breaking number of 38 German authors. As you might not know, Amazon pays a bonus to the 150 bestselling authors and […]
A few days ago, US aggregator Smashwords showed an analysis of e-book sales between April 2014 and March 2015. The results are pretty interesting – while at the same time being relevant mostly for the US market. That’s because Smashwords sells most of it’s titles on channels that are not that important in Germany. But which […]
Another month, another bonus e-mail from Amazon. 150 authors and 100 titles get the AllStar treatment each month for Amazon.de. How many pagereads did you need to reach those benefits (which do not only include a nice looking star icon on your book’s Amazon page but also a sum between 250 and 7500 Euro)? Well, […]
The monthly growth of the number of pages you need to get an AllStar bonus seems to have stopped. Compared to the August numbers, the requirements for an AllStar bonus remained approximately the same in September. There could be two reasons: Either the growth of KindleUnlimited user numbers has stopped – or the fonds is […]
When you calculate your book prices for the German speaking markets, you have to take into account that VAT is always included for prices shown to customers in the stores, not added when checking out. But when entering the prices in your aggregators’ websites, it’s different. Amazon KDP, for example, lets you enter a price including […]
There seems to be a major issue with all Amazon servers: Currently now e-books can be bought at the site. Calling the support number is impossible. Also, users cannot access their KDP accounts. This all started this morning at 9 AM CEST and became gradually worse – in the first hours, it was still possible […]
In August, there was another increase in the numbers of pages read authors needed to get a bonus. In case you didn’t know yet, for KDP Germany, the 150 best authors and the 100 best e-books get a bonus. Let’s start with the book bonus: Instead of 250.000 (in July) you now needed more than 320.000 pages […]