Hear that? That's the sound of thousands of authors' hearts stopping mid-keystroke as they open up their Bookscan numbers and keel over dead of disappointment. Amazon just added
Nielsen Bookscan numbers to their
Author Central pages, the pages authors use to add content to the Kindle/Amazon book store and, more important, track their book sales on Amazon. Nielsen offers geographical breakdowns of sales for the past few weeks. In my case, above, I haven't sold a book since Bush was president so I have no data. However, folks who are just releasing books right now can see how many and where their books were sold, with the obvious caveat being that these statistics are often woefully inaccurate. These woefully innacturate stats are extremely expensive, as well, costing multiple thousands per year for access, depending on the package selected. That said, agents and the industry treats this data like pure extruded gold mixed with ketamine so what Amazon has done is fairly impressive.
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