ebook sales for May 2012

3,886.

My best month ever. Which is pleasantly surprising, since I expected a drop. I think there were two reasons for the sales uptick.

-Ubuntu 12.04 came out in April, and that meant my Ubuntu book had a big surge in sales. It also gave my other two computer books (THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE BEGINNER’S GUIDE and THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNER’S Guide) a boost as well.

-May was the first full month for GHOST IN THE STORM, and it did very well.

So, thank you to everyone who bought a book (or books) this month.

One other point – I got an email from someone arguing that it was unseemly to post sales numbers every month. I disagree. I don’t do this to boast (lots of people sell more than I do), but to share information. Writers are the natural prey for all sorts of con artists and charlatans, so the more information out there, the better. Plus, there are people who argue that self-publishing is the path to riches (it’s not), or that self-publishing is destroying the fabric of literature (it’s definitely not). Hopefully my numbers will help people make informed decisions about ebooks and self-publishing.

So, for historical progression, here are my sales numbers since I started in April of 2011:

April 2011: 22

May 2011: 105

June 2011: 236

July 2011: 366

August 2011: 489

September 2011: 1335

October 2011: 1607

November 2011: 2142

December 2011: 2340

January 2012: 3261

February 2012: 3750

March 2012: 3644

April 2012: 3521

May 2012: 3886

-JM