Comments on: 2020 Book Sales Survey Results

By: Dale HEIL

Dale HEIL — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:24:54 +0000

Thanks for all the work you put into this, and you make some very astute points regarding sample size and the inferences that can be drawn from the information. That being said, it does point out some interesting trends.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:15:03 +0000

Many thanks for analysing all the data. It was indeed a big effort on your side to help all authors out there that are most of the time confused as to why their sales are fluctuating. It is extremely frustrating. To all what you have mentioned as potential reasons for the slump, is there possibly a recent change in the AMZ algo that favored giving more visibility to higher earning authors/books in each genre on the expense of lower earning ones in an attempt to maximize the sales of AMZ in what could be the last period of covid as vaccines are rolling out and there is a business prediction that things will get back to normal. So let’s milk the cow to the max with our high earner authors/books now and we will go back to giving fair visibility to all authors when covid disappears… Because I see the slump in the charts affecting mostly low earners. Thanks again for the effort you’ve put in this survey!

By: R J Gould

R J Gould — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:58:19 +0000

Thanks for putting this together – interesting and thought-provoking.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:05:08 +0000

Thank you so much for taking the time to create this survey and publish the results. It’s seems there’s hope at the end of the tunnel.

By: Alan Thrush

Alan Thrush — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:14:17 +0000

An informative and enlightening survey. I couldn’t agree more with your theory as outlined in the last four paragraphs. Thank you for putting your time and effort into assembling this information. I really appreciate it.