Thursday, June 5, 2008

LWP Statistics

Many authors often ask how their books are performing, or how certain genres perform at our company overall. Here is a brief breakdown:

Bestselling genre - Christian Help/Self-help
Slowest sellers - Children's books

Our best performing titles for this past quarter were:
  • The Rape of Innocence: Taking Captivity Captive by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 2000 copies sold)
  • Becoming: My Personal Memoirs by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 1800 copies sold)

Our best performing titles to date this quarter: (not final totals and barring no returns come in)

  • The Rape of Innocence by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 680 copies sold)
  • The Nazarene Commentary by Mark Heber Miller (approx. 500 copies sold)
  • Life is a Game by Jim Copeland (approx. 600 copies sold)
  • The Fire that Burns for the Last Days by Kevin O'Connor (approx. 200 copies sold)
  • Becoming: My Personal Memoirs by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 100 copies sold)
  • Stories from the Red Glass by LMH Christian (approx. 80 copies sold)
  • Benjamin P. Blizzard by Karen Nivens (approx. 60 copies sold)

The title that performed best in pre-sales is:

  • The Fire that Burns for the Last Days by Kevin O'Connor

Titles that have received the most media/reviews/online attention:

  • The Rape of Innocence: Taking Captivity Captive by Lacresha Hayes
  • Life is a Game by Jim Copeland
  • The Adventures of Katie-Bear: Fun Days at School by V.K. Sansone
  • Benjamin P. Blizzard: Welcome to Christmastown by Karen Nivens

Children's books move at the slowest pace, but present constant growth over a period of time. Returns in this category have been almost non-existent. Christian and self help sell quickest, but bring in the highest returns.

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