Like everyone else in KDP Select, I've been paying attention to my Kindle Unlimited page reads.
When the new accounting began at the beginning of this month, I had 33,000 daily page reads. I had no idea if this was good, or bad. It was what it was.
But I was intrigued to see my Amazon Author Rank go up. My best rank was #1, but for the past two years I've been hovering around #1000. On June 30 I was #854.
Now I hover around #400. I got to #267 last week, and now I'm at #441.
Since I haven't released any new solo novels in two years (I have three coming out by fall, two Jack Daniels thrillers and a Jack Kilborn horror), the only explanation I have for this jump up was the new KU rules.
By the end of the first week, my daily reads were up to 60,000. By the end of this month, they're at 85,000.
Now, this all could mean absolutely nothing. Maybe my page reads have remained static, and Amazon's new accounting system is simply finding its groove.
Maybe people are finishing my books, and the more they read the more they want to read. Or maybe a lot of people are starting them and not finishing them. The likeliest answer is some readers finish, some don't. Page reads, by themselves, don't give us enough information.
Amazon has the tech to pinpoint how much a reader has read of your work, and where they stopped reading. I've pleaded with Amazon to allow authors access to this information. It would be invaluable. As writers, we've never been privy to how quickly readers read our work, if they finish it, or when they choose to put the book down. I'd love to look at trends. Do I have any books where readers tend to quit before finishing? Where do they quit? I know I could use this information to fix books, make them more reader-friendly, and get a higher page read.
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Writing is not a career
for the weak.
It comes with seemingly everlasting periods of writer’s block, glooming
fits of self-doubt and often little recognition or remuneration in
return for great dedication. Perhaps the biggest bother, though, is
constantly having to defend who you are, what you write and why you
write it.
For many people, because they know how to write, they carry an
assumption that writing is easy. What they don’t realize, however, is
that writing, the tool you learn in school and use to jot texts,
refrigerator memos and the occasional letter, is quite a ways away from
writing, what novelists, poets, journalists and others who connect words
professionally do.
Read more at
http://observer.com/2015/07/tenthingsnottosaytoawriter-hashtag-has-famous-authors-venting-and-bonding-on-twitter/#ixzz3hN0d9fNn
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