Where can I find the number of books sold?

Visit online retail sites such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Buy.com to view the sales rank of a volume relative to the other books listed on the website. Many sites also offer the ability to view a book’s sales rank within a particular genre.

How do I know if a book is sold well?

Here are four different numbers that are frequently conflated:

1. The number of copies of the book that are printed.
2. The number of copies that have been shipped to stores or other markets like libraries.
3. The number of copies that have been sold to readers.
4. The Nielsen BookScan number.

What are good sales for a self published book?

There are all kinds of statistics bouncing around out there, but generally speaking, most self-published authors will likely sell around 250 books or less.

What is the average number of copies a book sells?

The average book in America sells about 500 copies. Those blockbusters are a minute anomaly: only 10 books sold more than a million copies last year, and fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000.

How many books do I have to sell to be a bestseller?

What does it take to be named a best-seller? The general consensus is that if you want to make your way onto a best-seller list, any best-seller list, you have to sell at least 5,000 books in a week, or maybe 10,000. Beyond that, things get complicated depending on which list you’re looking to end up on.

Where can I find current sales data for a book?

Ingram is the largest book distributor in the business. You can call their automated stock check number at (800) 937-0995. Enter a book’s ISBN, and you’ll get back its current sales data.

What percentage of book sales does BookScan record?

For other types of books, BookScan might record as little as 25\% of print sales. Small press books, for example, can sell most of their copies at conferences, book festivals, and direct sales on the publisher’s website or at readings. BookScan misses all of that.

Where can I find public sales numbers for comparable titles?

Finding public, free sales numbers for comparable titles is nearly impossible. BookScan is a subscriber service run by Nielsen. “Above the Treeline” is a subscriber service that collects sales data from some independent book sellers. But I’m looking for reliable services that I could tap into. Any suggestions?

How do you know how many books you have sold on Amazon?

You can get sales ranks for your books against all other books sold through Amazon US (not by category) as well as your author rank (but if you’re a romance writer and your name’s not Nora Roberts, don’t bother looking). Amazon lets you break out the data by: Interestingly, Amazon does not report on the actual number of books sold.