As we near the release of Altered America, Martinus
Publishing’s 4th multi-author anthology (not counting our Best of 2013 sampler), I find myself reminded of a
growing peculiarity among sales figures.
Our last anthology, Veterans of the Future Wars, had a surge of initial
sales, and has now fallen to a familiar trickle. Pre-orders of Altered America have been
better than any previous anthology release, and I have high hopes that Kindle
sales will also be up once the book is released (for technical reasons, there
is no pre-order platform for e-book sales at this time).
Looking over the entirety of Martinus Publishing’s
existence, one strange figure has caught my attention, that being the lack of
any Canadian Kindle sales. Yes, of all
the books Martinus has released, not a single copy has been sold to Canada (at
least, not according to Amazon’s royalties reports). There have been a few sales in the UK and in
Europe, but nothing from Canada. Truly strange.
It is possible that the Canadian customers who have chosen
to buy Kindle copies have done so through the regular US Amazon site somehow. I’m not 100% sure of how that works, but when
Amazon supplies royalty reports they break things down by currency sales. USD, GBP, CAD, etc... Thus far, not a single Kindle sale has been
made in Canadian Dollars.
This comes as a bit of a surprise, considering there are
Canadian authors in every single Martinus anthology to date. We’ve sold some print copies to Canada, which
leads me to wonder if the Kindle is perhaps a rare luxury item there. Perhaps our readers in the Great White North
simply prefer to get print copies over electronic versions. Though, the Kindle versions are substantially
cheaper.
Right now, I invite any Canadian with a Kindle who reads
this to go pick up a Martinus title.
Prove to me that you exist. If I
could see just a few Kindle sales from Canada, I’d be thrilled, as would the
many Canadian writers who have contributed works to these collections.
Martinus Titles on Amazon.ca:
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