How can I find out how many copies of a book have been sold on Amazon?

If you want to find out how many print copies the book is selling, just click the Paperback or Hardcover edition of the book on Amazon, scroll down to Product Details on that page, and find the Amazon Best Sellers Rank for the print edition.

Do Amazon reviews help sell books?

Reviews factor into Amazon’s algorithm , which determines how much they’re willing to recommend your book. If your book has a lot of verified reviews, your book is more likely to appeal to potential buyers. Thanks to the algorithm, reviews help sell books.

How do you find the number of book sales?

You can call their automated stock check number at (800) 937-0995. Enter a book’s ISBN, and you’ll get back its current sales data.

How many book reviews on Amazon is good?

How Many Reviews Do I Need? For a minimum, you should try to get 20 reviews within the first two months after your book release date. That shows your book has traction with real readers. At around 50 reviews, you are probably good to go.

How many copies of an average book are sold?

The average book in America sells about 500 copies. Those blockbusters are a minute anomaly: only 10 books sold more than a million copies last year, and fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000.

What percentage of readers leave reviews?

The review rate seems to be about 1-3\% of units sold (I don’t do freebies), and that seems to be good across most current and active authors, trad or indie. That means that 97-99\% of my readers didn’t leave a review. And every one of them probably felt a bit uncomfortable about it, if they read the request.

Why does Amazon delete book reviews?

Making sure reviews are honest and trustworthy is important for Amazon’s business; so they delete reviews from friends, family members and anyone they think has a personal relationship with you.

How many books do you need to sell to be a bestseller on Amazon?

In order to hit #1 on Amazon, you’ll need to sell somewherebetween 3,500 and 5,000 copies in 24 hours. Want to hit top 10? You’ll need to sell roughly 300 for print, or 2,000+ copies for combined formats. Those numbers aren’t exactly set in stone, but they’re a pretty close approximation.

Can you tell how many books have been sold on Amazon?

If you don’t know how many books Amazon ordered, you can’t determine how many have sold. Sales from other vendors in the Amazon marketplace are included in in-stock numbers. These are not new sales, for the most part, but resales. In-stock numbers apply only to print books.

How reliable are Amazon’s book sales estimates?

All this assumes that you have access to sales figures several books for comparison. The estimate is not reliable, because Amazon’s sales ranking gives more weight to recent sales. So the books sold yesterday count for more in the sales ranking than the books sold last year.

How do I calculate the sales of a book on Amazon?

You can’t. In theory, it’s possible to calculate it, but for this you’d need to know how many books have been sold on Amazon overall during that period. Some people have developed formulas claiming reveal the number of sales based on the sales ranking.

How many book reviews should a book have per sale?

Human behavior should be pretty consistent, i.e. for every 100 people that buy a book, 1 will leave a review. I’ve gathered some self-reported data from authors on how many reviews and sales they have per book. Here it is: So from here, you would multiply the number of reviews a book has by that ratio.