SPA Girls Podcast - Ep 275 - Read Through On A Series

<p>This week's podcast is all about Read-through - ie what percentage of readers read from the first book in your series to the next, and onwards.</p> <p><strong>We cover:</strong></p> <p>* how to calculate read-through and why its important that you do!</p> <p>* What is the ideal percentage you should be aiming for</p> <p>* Red flags to look for if you DON'T get great read-through</p> <p>* How it affects advertising</p> <p>* How to deal with a "weak" book in the series</p> <p>* The difference between calculating wide read-through vs kindle unlimited</p> <p>* Tools for calculating read through including Readerlinks (https://readerlinks.com/)</p> <p>Great resource on Kindlepreneur from Malorie Cooper: https://kindlepreneur.com/calculate-series-read-through/</p> <p>Malorie says :</p> <p>Your series sell-through is pretty easy to calculate. Take the sales of the last book in your series and divide that number by the sales of Book 1.</p> <p>Let’s say you sold 428 copies of Book 1, and 247 copies of Book 2. That gives us:</p> <p>247 ÷ 428 = 57.7%</p> <p>That’s your total series read-through.</p> <p>“Many authors see something in the neighborhood of 50-60% from books 1 to 2. Unless you’re writing a more loosely connected series, the read-through from the first to the second book is very important."</p> <p>Knowing if a series is doing well or where it’s falling down can help to make it easier to fix going forward.</p> <p>Book 1 should be your best book but sometimes it’s not. What should you do if that’s the case?</p> <p>Listen to the episode for some great tips!</p> <p>✔<span data-contrast="auto">️ </span><span data-contrast= "auto"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter with tips and resources for self-publishing authors</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><a href= "http://www.selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/join/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-ccp-charstyle= "Hyperlink">http://www.selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/join/</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":