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After doing some totaling, here is what I'm looking at for overall sales:
Print: 20.4%
of sales
Ebook: 71.7%
of sales
Audiobook: 7.9%
of sales
Comparing those to statistics listed in April 2014 based on
Sales through the 1st Quarter of 2014:
Print: 21.4%
of sales
Ebook: 73.5%
of sales
Audiobook: 5.1%
of sales
Trends I see:
The uptick in audio is due to the having the books available in audio. In general, my publisher releases my novels in ebook, followed shortly thereafter in print. Audiobooks become available a little further down the road (the delay due to finding and screening narrators, and then the production process which follows).
They (audiobooks) are currently doing a little better than print editions.
Relic Tech's sales in audio have outpaced those of
Flank Hawk and
Blood Sword. The same is true for ebooks as
Relic Tech sells a vastly higher percentage of ebooks as compared to print: (3.5% Print, 76.7% Ebook, 9.8% Audio). I would attribute that to the audience preference for Science Fiction.
Genre Shotgun, the short story collection, is largely reverse when compared to
Relic Tech: (11.8% Ebook, 88.2% print). The audiobook version of
Genre Shotgun is in production and not yet released. It should be interesting to observe what happens there, as well as the release of
Soul Forge in audio, which may kickstart sales of the previous novels in the
First Civilization's Legacy Series in audiobook format such that they close in on those of
Relic Tech.
One upcoming addition to the sales observation will be the foreign release version of
Flank Hawk (in Spanish). It will be released in ebook, and depending on how that goes, print and possibly audio might follow.
My publisher (
Gryphonwood Press) is planning some marketing efforts focused on
Relic Tech and
Flank Hawk, which may alter future sales and trends.
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