Showing posts with label book sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book sales. Show all posts

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.