I have stopped posting monthly sales figures and the like, because “It’s not about book sales; it’s about connections with readers.”  So other than major milestones, I’m not going to list sales or download numbers.  But I do scrupulously track them– at least so much as I am able.  Part of the problem with that is that several of my books have been available free at iBookstore (and still are) and until recently iTunes/Smashwords hadn’t notified me of sales numbers (on free books) all the way back to 2010.  I compensated for this by estimating them based upon sales at other ebook retailers.  Now finally, they have released the numbers and I’ve been a bit off.

I had recently posted that His Robot Girlfriend had passed 450,000 downloads.  Whoops, not so fast.  The actual number is only 423,204.  Not quite there, but not that far off.  On the other hand, I had celebrated Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess passing 100,000 downloads.  I was a quite a bit off on this one.  The actual number of downloads is 54,675.

And just for the sake of completion, here are the actual download numbers for the other free books.  Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress: 45,291.  Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 1: Brechalon: 12,098.