Welcome to the Book and Ebook Sales Calculator, where you can input a book's best seller rank (BSR) & discover how much that book is making.
To access improved market data that can increase your book's sales, check out Publisher Rocket.
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Did you know Publisher Rocket uses advanced data for more accurate ABSR calculations?
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Copies sold per day :
Copies sold per month :
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books per day
less than a book a day
Click here to learn how to INCREASE your Amazon Best Seller Rank!
Welcome to the Book and Ebook Sales Calculator, where you can input a book's best seller rank (BSR) & discover how much that book is making.
To access improved market data that can increase your book's sales, check out Publisher Rocket.
Book Type
Marketplace
Pages Invalid page count
Size In Megabytes Invalid size
Royalty Rate
Interior
Price Invalid book Price
Did you know Publisher Rocket uses advanced data for more accurate ABSR calculations?
Earnings per day :
Earnings per month :
Copies sold per day :
Copies sold per month :
-
books per day
less than a book a day
Click here to learn how to INCREASE your Amazon Best Seller Rank!
Want to increase your Book's rankings on Amazon? Download my personal guide on increasing your book's rankings and discoverability on Amazon so you get more sales continuously!
See also my Audiobook Sales Calculator for audiobook information
Table of contents
- How to Use the Amazon Sales Rank Calculator
- Step 1: Select the book version and market place
- Step 2: Find the Amazon Best Seller Rank
- Step 3: Enter in the Kindle Calculator
- How Is the Amazon Best Seller Rank Created?
- What Affects the Amazon Best Seller Rank?
- How Does the Book Sales Calculator Works
- How to Use Amazon Sales Rank Data to Improve Your Sales
- FAQ About Amazon Rankings
- Other Resources to Check Out:
How to Use the Amazon Sales Rank Calculator
Generally, my Kindle Calculator is pretty easy to use. All you need to do is find the Amazon Best Seller Rank or (ABSR) of a book, select what form the book is (ebook, book, etc), and which market, and click calculate. However, if you don't know how to find those things, no worries. Let me walk you through an example on your can calculate the Amazon book sales.
For this example, let's use a well known LitRPG book, “Dungeon Born”. Going to its Amazon sales page, you will find the following:
Step 1: Select the book version and market place
Make sure you have either the Kindle Version or the Hardcover/Paperback selected. For the marketplace, one thing that is super unique to my Kindle sales calculator is that you can select all the different markets like the US, Canada, France, etc.
Step 2: Find the Amazon Best Seller Rank
Scroll down until you find the Product Details section. Here with Battlefield Earth, we find that the book sales rank (as of this writing) is 181,698.
Step 3: Enter in the Kindle Calculator
Input that number into the Amazon Book Sales Calculator to get the daily sales volume and monthly sales volume. For Battlefield Earth, it looks like that Amazon Kindle bestsellers rank means that, at the time of this writing, that book is averaging less than 1 sale per day.
And there you have it. You can know find the actual sales data of any book, ebook or audiobook with the use of the Amazon Book Sales calculator.
How Is the Amazon Best Seller Rank Created?
As you can see, the Amazon Best Seller Rank is incredibly important in helping you to know the relative sales data of a book. Without it and this calculator couldn't tell you the number of sales a book or ebook made. However, you're probably asking yourself, “So, then how does Amazon create the ABSR and what affects it?”
Well, Amazon ranks every book on their market place from the bestseller in all of their store (#1 Amazon Best seller Rank) to the worst selling book (whatever is the total number of books at that time – so perhaps over 9 million). Therefore, the ABSR is based on relative sales in a certain time period. This means that the number of sales to be #1 today, might be different tomorrow. Therefore, an accurate book sales calculator needs to be updated habitually to reflect the relative sales volume in order to be accurate (something I'll discuss later).
What Affects the Amazon Best Seller Rank?
Now, you might be thinking, based on the name, that only the number of sales of a book affects the best seller ranking? However, this isn't true. Something that I proved in an experiment and corroborated with other publishing companies is that Kindle Unlimited “borrows” count as well. As a matter of fact, a KU download affects the best seller rank just as much as a book sale.
So, if your ebook is enrolled in KDP select, and someone downloads your KU book, you get as much of a lift in the best seller rank as a sale would.
How Does the Book Sales Calculator Works
Now that we understand the Amazon Best Seller Rank, and what affects it, let's discuss not only how this Kindle calculator works, but also why it is so accurate.
Not only does this book sales calculator have the appropriate algorithm to decipher the number of books sold based on the ABSR, and can do it for all the different Amazon markets and book formats, it is also habituatlly updated. Thanks to Publisher Rocket's database and systems, it is improved daily ensuring that it's as accurate as possible.
Also, thanks to partnerships with publishing companies around the world, Publisher Rocket and this Book Sales Calculator are continuously updated with the right representation of what that sales number should be. We get this because we track the ABSR of certain books in our system, and then compare it with their sales – ensuring our book Amazon sales ranking calculation is as accurate as possible, and not stagnant like other systems.
Calculators like TCK Publishing's just set some numbers and don't understand the dynamics of the system – which is why their data is old and therefore inaccurate.
How to Use Amazon Sales Rank Data to Improve Your Sales
The way that the Amazon book sales rank works is based on your sales over time. If you have consistent sales, your rank will be much better than if you have spikes of sales here and there (even if the number of total sales between the two examples are the same).
Therefore, the best way to improve your Amazon sellers rank or BSR is to develop steady sales of your book over time. This will lead to the Amazon Popularity Effect, which will increase the amount of promotion that Amazon is willing to give you. Over time, this will lead to an increased royalty.
If you'd like to learn more about how to improve your sales ranks, I wrote a free book you can check out.
FAQ About Amazon Rankings
In addition to the Amazon book sales calculator and everything mentioned above, you might have more questions about how Amazon calculates its Amazon best seller ranking for each book sold. Read on for a few frequently asked questions:
Can you tell how many copies of a book have sold on Amazon?
Yes, using the BSR to sales calculator on this page, you can see how many estimated copies of any book are being sold today. Using a program like Publisher Rocket will give you further insights into just how many sales and royalties they are making, along with how competitive their keywords and categories are.
How many books do you need to sell on Amazon to be a bestseller?
This depends on your definition of success. For a traditional publisher, you'd need to sell approximately 10,000 copies over it's entire lifetime. For indie publishers, breaking into the top 1000 in Amazon's sales rank is a pretty successful book. However, you want to make sure those sales are steady.
What is a good Amazon sales rank?
Obviously, the best Amazon sellers rank is #1. But generally speaking, a good sales rank is anything under 1000. If you can get into the top 1000 ranking books, you will be selling over 100 copies of your book each day, which adds up if you can keep it there. That is why steady sales are so important.
However, this is a tricky question because ultimately you have to define what success looks like for you. And other factors can make a big difference, like pricing, for example. 100 sales at $9.99 will result in much higher profit for you than 100 sales of a $.99 book. You can check out our KDP royalty calculator for more insights into how much money you make from your number of sales.
Are Kindle and Amazon Books ranked differently?
Books come in different formats like paperback and hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. Each format has its own Best Seller Rank (BSR) showing sales velocity compared to other books in that format. During an ebook promotion, the ebook BSR may hit #1 while the paperback BSR is unchanged at #1,000,000, since the ebook is selling faster temporarily. BSR tracks real-time sales by format.
Other Resources to Check Out:
- Set Up a Book Promotion: I've created a list of the best book promotion sites on the market.
- Get a Copyright: If you don't get the copyright pge of yoru book right, you could be in trouble. So, learn how to make an ironclad copyright page.
- List of the best Formatting Software: Having tried them all, I list my favorite book formatting software on the market. Or if you don't want to do that, you can learn to format on your own.
- Find the Best Software for Writing: I've created a list of the top book writing software out there.
Disclaimer: The KDP sales numbers are an estimate based on research and other authors recorded numbers sinceAmazon does not directly release this information.
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