There's a whole other aspect to book sales on Amazon, as it turns out: KENP, i.e., Kindle Edition Normalized Pages. This is shown as a statistic on my revenue-tracking page, and it has to do with members of Kindle Unlimited who pay a subscription fee and then use the service to read KU titles for free. (Well, "free" since they're paying a subscription.) So apparently, I'm supposed to get a tiny fraction of the KU subscriptions as well, although I'm not sure how much. And there, it seems, within the KENP context, I've got people coming in and "borrowing" my book (i.e., accessing it for a limited time, like renting an online movie). This has been happening during the days when I thought no book sales were occurring—I only just noticed the bar-graph statistics—so I may be doing better than I thought. So far, there have been 18 KENP hits, and while I don't think that's going to translate into the same amount of cash as 18 books sold, it's better than nothing.
Realistically, of course, I'm losing money on this book. I dumped hundreds of dollars into things like purchasing ISBNs, securing official copyrights, making local copies of my book, etc., so I'd have to sell thousands of copies to see any sort of return. But a man's gotta start somewhere, so that's what I'm doing. More news on this later.
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