Our free download promotion is now over. We hit #1 in the UK
and stayed there for the entire promo. In the USA we jumped around a bit
between 8 and 12 early on then 18 to 26 on days three and four before an ENT
mention saw us rebound up to our final position of #6 free eBook in the USA (#5
fiction).
Final download count: 54,344!
It's been a real rollercoaster watching the download count
spiral, as well as all the comments (both good and bad) coming in via
twitter/email and review. We did get a couple of end of book typos pointed out
- a big shout out to @MelanieM1402 for pinging us over the exact locations.
These have now been fixed - owners of older editions can update via manage my
kindle for free. Our apologies these were left in - unfortunately it's not
possible to be 100% error free. We also had a few reports of typos pertaining
to British spelling and grammar. This is deliberate - we are English, sorry
about that. It would be a bit odd to set a story in London and then use
American spellings. This isn't likely to change, but thank you all anyway for
taking the time to notify us.
Right now we're still listed on the free lists, but with
prices attached. That will probably means sales followed by returns when people
realise they bought a paid book, and will mess up our return % for September.
We've been running well under 1% and I can see this spiking to 5%+ if we're
unlucky.
If sales gain a little traction from the pop rank boost then
we could well see an entry on the movers and shakers list on the cards which
would drive a few more sales, otherwise it'll be a case of watching us peak in
3 or 4 days and then either snowball or slip back down. Most books do the
latter, but we have had a phenomenal number of downloads, and this should bouy
our popularity rank for a while.
Thank you all for sharing/ tweeting/emailing/ liking/
downloading/ reviewing and everything else. You've all been absolutely stellar,
and this has really been a group effort. Thank you just doesn't seem
sufficient.
While we aren't free anymore (and probably won't be again as
we're leaving Select to broaden our reach) you can still download us for less
than the price of a caramel macchiato:
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