The UK economy has swollen by an additional 1.25 US Dollars in export earnings this month. Philip Hammond must be relieved and its all down to me. Yes, someone in the United States has been reading my book! I didn't know it had been translated into American. It's all very exciting.*
In these days of streaming and all that, people can "borrow" a book from the Kindle library and it counts how many pages they read and I get paid accordingly. I get to see a monthly graph, so I see that on March 10th someone in the US read all 344 "Kindle normalized pages". I don't think it was Donald Trump, because he or she got to the end and I used quite a few long words. Someone else appears to have read it all over three days in February. Add that to my actual book sales over the period (zero) and that's two people who have actually finished the book this year. I'm thrilled. That's exceeded my expectations by two.
Actually it is quite gratifying that people who start the book generally finish it, so I must have done something right, especially as they read it so quickly. The book must be a page turner obviously.
Those eagerly awaiting the sequel probably ought to find another book to read in the meantime. I'm still struggling with the plot.
Any ideas what I could spend a dollar twenty five on?
*PS This is definitely not fake news!
In these days of streaming and all that, people can "borrow" a book from the Kindle library and it counts how many pages they read and I get paid accordingly. I get to see a monthly graph, so I see that on March 10th someone in the US read all 344 "Kindle normalized pages". I don't think it was Donald Trump, because he or she got to the end and I used quite a few long words. Someone else appears to have read it all over three days in February. Add that to my actual book sales over the period (zero) and that's two people who have actually finished the book this year. I'm thrilled. That's exceeded my expectations by two.
Actually it is quite gratifying that people who start the book generally finish it, so I must have done something right, especially as they read it so quickly. The book must be a page turner obviously.
Those eagerly awaiting the sequel probably ought to find another book to read in the meantime. I'm still struggling with the plot.
Any ideas what I could spend a dollar twenty five on?
*PS This is definitely not fake news!
1 comment:
Good one, Neil! I like those Amazon graphs. They fascinate me, especially the pages read one...it always makes me wonder 'now who is that?' when I see those occasional spikes. And why not DT? He might want an 'in' on good, real English thinking :)
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