Sales report for the month for Never Ceese ;)

Yes!!! No returns. You see, when you're with Lightning Source and a bought book is returned from the bookstore via Ingram or one of the other larger distributors (which can happen at anytime BTW if you make your book returnable which is the only way bookstores will order a book) Lighting Source destroys the return, even if it's in good shape. I'd like to say I made that up but this is what Lightning Source told me. When a book is returned, they automatically destroy it.

So the publisher, in this case me, eats the print cost of the book that was destroyed, which in this case is $4.33 and I have to give a full refund to the bookstore that sent the book back. Since bookstores are able to return books at will, I opted to make my book non-returnable to avoid eating the print cost. I did tell Lightning Source that I didn't know this about them when I signed on or I might have reconsidered. Their only consolation was to tell me that this is how the publishing industry works.

Really?

So yes, good news is no returns this month. But I only sold one book. HA! For a grand total of 9 this year with 2 returns bringing my profit to *Sue pecks on calculator* $1.50!!! Ooooohhh somebody buy me a steak!!!!

Just a reminder. When you see Never Ceese the paperback for sale in an an on-line store and they say they have so many copies for sale etc . . . They don't have squat. The store is lying which seems to be the trend for folks here in the publishing industry. Just didn't want you to think I was rolling in it. I'm not. But everyone else is and it ain't money they're rolling in. Did I just say that? I think I did. ;)