I’ve gotten a couple of questions about this on Twitter recently so I may as well talk about it here:  the 99 cent price point failed utterly to drive any additional sales.  In fact, I haven’t sold a book since July 25th.  For the last few days, The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 has returned to its original $2.99 price point.  I had always planned to perma-free the book sooner or later, so the lack of sales lately may be accelerating that decision.  We’ll see.

Smashwords claims that I have literally no sales at all from Barnes and Noble, the iBookstore, or Smashwords itself.  I don’t know how seriously to take this as I know that I bought a copy of the damn book through the iBookstore, so I’ve had at least one sale that way.  It does tell me that there have been eighteen downloads of the sample chapter, which I feel should have generated at least one sale by now, but who the hell knows.

I mentioned this a day or two ago, but my next book, Skylights, has got a page up on Goodreads.  If you’re a Goodreads user, feel free to drop the book into your “to read” shelf if you like, and send me a friend request while you’re at it.  I’m eagerly anticipating the day when I have more friends on Goodreads than I do on Facebook.  The way things are going, it’s not going to be long.