Zero Sales Since June 2023
Updated cover for U-1215 Smashwords version Sales for U-1215 has become zero since June of this year. It's strange because I had consistent sales almost every month prior to this. Quarterly sales of U-1215 from 2016 to 2023 I don't know what happened so I sent off an inquiry to Smashwords. They said that it's probably due to a "long tail distribution." What is that? A long tail distribution is a type of statistical distribution that seems to explain what probably happened to my book. A book may do very well at the beginning but over time, will start to slump, meaning sales will start to slow down. There may be many reasons why this happens so I won't try to give examples. Eventually, sales drops to a much lower level than at the start and it may drop down to zero or stay at a low level indefinitely. If a book is very well written, sales may increase sharply and then plateau after some time. In this case the vertical part of the long tail refers to increase i