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Domokos · 03-15-2011, 05:48 PM

Read an E-Book Week was a big success.

Traffic was up just over 20% from last year. Visitors came from 141 countries and spoke 76 languages whereas last year the count was 136 countries and 74 languages. There was a large increase in visitors from Poland and that area of Europe.

Rita Toews
founder - Read an E-Book Week

neilmarr · 03-15-2011, 07:39 PM

Best year ever, I think, Rita. Many, many thanks. Neil and Tony and team at BeWrite Books.

And here's karma to ya! N

CHunter_Author · 03-15-2011, 07:57 PM

Yeah, it was a monster week. I sold more books in one week than in my entire run. Also trying to read through all the books I purchased so that I can write reviews. For everyone who got free books, reviews are how to show your appreciation.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 03-16-2011, 09:16 AM

Traffic to my site tripled over the period. Sales also increased, which is significant because I'm between books, and the usual after-release sales lull had fully set in... but Read an E-Book Week's activity brought sales back up close to new-release levels.

neilmarr · 03-16-2011, 11:25 AM

Traffic to our own site increased almost fifty-fold over the week, Rita. Like your own site, it became so heavy, we crashed once or twice at the weekend for the first time in ten years. And a special temporary address we set up to deal with RAEBW requests and related matters (RAEBW@bewrite.net) had high capacity, but went over quota within days. Quite incredible.

An unexpected thing happened, too, which still has us mystified. We offered any three or four free books from our catalogue to anyone who asked. Although there was an inevitable dramatic drop in actual sales at the start of the promotion, ebook sales at our own store and, it appears at our third-party retail sites, actually increased as the week went on.

Cheers. Neil

03-15-2011, 05:48 PM	#1
Domokos Rita Y. Toews Posts: 41 Karma: 2419 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Canada Device: Sony and Hiebook	Results for Read an E-Book Week 2011 Read an E-Book Week was a big success. Traffic was up just over 20% from last year. Visitors came from 141 countries and spoke 76 languages whereas last year the count was 136 countries and 74 languages. There was a large increase in visitors from Poland and that area of Europe. Rita Toews founder - Read an E-Book Week

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03-15-2011, 07:39 PM	#2
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,216 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Best year ever, I think, Rita. Many, many thanks. Neil and Tony and team at BeWrite Books. And here's karma to ya! N

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CHunter_Author Zealot Posts: 118 Karma: 503896 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bronx, NY Device: iPhone	Yeah, it was a monster week. I sold more books in one week than in my entire run. Also trying to read through all the books I purchased so that I can write reviews. For everyone who got free books, reviews are how to show your appreciation.

03-16-2011, 09:16 AM	#4
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Traffic to my site tripled over the period. Sales also increased, which is significant because I'm between books, and the usual after-release sales lull had fully set in... but Read an E-Book Week's activity brought sales back up close to new-release levels.

03-16-2011, 11:25 AM	#5
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,216 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Traffic to our own site increased almost fifty-fold over the week, Rita. Like your own site, it became so heavy, we crashed once or twice at the weekend for the first time in ten years. And a special temporary address we set up to deal with RAEBW requests and related matters (RAEBW@bewrite.net) had high capacity, but went over quota within days. Quite incredible. An unexpected thing happened, too, which still has us mystified. We offered any three or four free books from our catalogue to anyone who asked. Although there was an inevitable dramatic drop in actual sales at the start of the promotion, ebook sales at our own store and, it appears at our third-party retail sites, actually increased as the week went on. Cheers. Neil

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