But when you consider that most books never earn out that advance according to publishers who never let you
see actual sales figures, how do you know how much that book actually sold?
It's not technically the end of all sales reports for the system (the active users count acts as a very loose proxy, and hardware sales figures might be released every now and again (maybe yearly or biyearly), but we won't be seeing Microsoft
releasing actual sales figures for the system on a regular basis from here on out.
He didn't
share actual sales figures and has only said that Apple Watch has enjoyed a stellar start to the holiday shopping season.
Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus
deflating actual sales figures.
But the company, recently acquired by Japanese e-tail giant Rakuten, did not
state actual sales figures for either its e-readers or its e-books.
The company refuses to
divulge actual sales figures but claims that for the last two years, the Kindle has been the company's bestselling product.
Xbone also hypes games to hell and cancels them at the last minute, avoids
revealing actual sales figures, masters of pr spin, constantly re iterates the same three ip until even hardcore fans are bored of them (which is why forza, halo and gear sales have been declining recently), use backwards compatibility to bloat their barren library of games, piss developers of so much that non want to work for them...
As Business Insider notes, the data provided by Mixpanel doesn't
measure actual sales figures, but rather the number of users who are using iPhone apps integrated with the firm's software development kit.
The UK has long experienced a greater level of transparency in terms
of actual sales figures than the US market, and several authors have come forward to outline exactly what they've earned from the sales of their books.
The best basis for your projected sales revenues are last year's
actual sales figures.
Chairman Philip Tracy said the size of the gap between previous profit estimates and
actual sales figures was too great.
Autotrader didn't give DT
the actual sales figures, but a rank ordering of the top 50 vehicles millennials currently buy, based on information from lenders.
As a Kindle Direct (KDP), not Kindle Select (KSP), author, you won't have the option to do Pre-orders on Amazon until Volume III, but at least you can check in on any day, any hour and get not only several different sales and author relative ranks, but go look at
your actual sales figures online, including total sales, gross cash intake and net royalties.
In other worlds,
the actual sales figures could be vastly different than what the above results show.
Many tend to only focus on books that are coming out within a few months and most never disclose
their actual sales figures.
My readers appreciate that level of continued honesty, so I continue to share
my actual sales figures and marketing experiences.
Amazon says Kindle sales continue to accelerate and boasts that the new price point has helped it reach a tipping point - but still won't release
actual sales figures.
The model uses a formula to map Amazon sales rank to
actual sales figures.
Barnes and Noble hasn't released
any actual sales figures for the Nook Tablet, and neither has Amazon for the Kindle Fire, but if you look closely at some of the signs it becomes clear that the Nook Tablet isn't selling nearly as well as the Kindle Fire.
It was also noted by the publication that most of the figures obtained by SuperData were for the first week, which means
the actual sales figure to date will be higher.
Yukifumi Makino: Without the consideration of
actual sales figures, my favourite project was Rez - a music game [laughs].
(An earlier version of this article suggested that those were
the actual sales figures, but Random House UK would not confirm them.)
While this is undoubtedly an impressive feat, it's worth noting that Amazon (as expected) has not released
any actual sales figures, so drawing any comparisons with rival devices which also enjoyed similar price cuts — like the Google Home Mini or Chromecast — isn't all that helpful at this stage.
Although
no actual sales figures were given in the report, we're looking at 450K as the number of units sold.