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Originally Posted by pwalker8
My point is that actual sales figures are proprietary and not shared with the public, so no matter how "validated" the data is, it's simply estimates that are validated against estimates. I'm sure that Amazon knows how many ebooks they sale, though that number is not public, just as I'm sure each publisher and each author knows how many ebooks the various stores report as sold. But as you say, they aren't talking. When an author who actually gets the real data says that the estimates are way off, that makes me skeptical of the estimate.
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Amazon is giving me small but reasonable numbers and I am by nature incredulous and suspicious. (Goes back to a compulsory stint in Military intelligence after graduation. My diploma said I was an Engineer but they said I understood analysis, the Delphi method, statistics and computers and gave me a reporting date.)
Anyway, I am now mostly retired from Engineering and all the attendant travel and am getting back to writing 50% of the time.
I hope to see good increases in my numbers at Amazon.
