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?
Not exact matches
At the end of the May, following three rounds of auction, it had sold most of the items on the docket, but, based on listing prices — Beibu Gulf Equity Exchange has only partially disclosed
actual sales prices — raised only 1.38 billion yuan ($ 208 million), with the remaining assets valued at 1.58 billion yuan ($ 238 million)(
see Figure 2).
As for the
actual findings of the report, it was interesting to
see how the number of copies was calculated for various books based on
sales rank along with the estimated royalties (something you could probably spend all lot of time trying to
figure out and do very poorly).
It just keeps growing — this anchor of the Kindle being a huge hit with
sales so shiny that no one can
see the
actual figures.
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.