EREC is a website about the world of erotic romance e-publishing. The best place to start is the BLOG. This is a great place to get news and updates, to ask questions and interact. If you want to skip to the best information we currently have available please check out the PLIST or 'publisher list' which includes names, links and some sales figures for erotic romance e-publishers. Data relating to sales are compiled HERE.
The sales estimates listed on ERECsite.com are based in author self-report.
Authors are encouraged to send queries or sales figures to veinglory AT
gmail.com. All data is stored and reported on a strictly confidential
basis. Data is reported as an arithmetic mean based on at least 5 books by at
least 3 different authors--data more than one year old is deleted. If you would
like to contribute your sales data please provide the following information, or
as much of it as you can, for each title.
1) Name of publisher:
_____________
2) Is the book erotic romance?: Y/N
3) How many copies sold
in the first month?: __
4) How many copies sold in total to date?: __
5)
Has your book been on sale for one year or longer?: Y/N
6) How many copies
sold in the first year?: __
Here are some more detail that might
clear up any questions you have. If not, please ask your questions by comment or
by email.
What counts as "erotic romance"?
I
leave it up to the writer to decide this, no objective definition of 'erotic
romance' is provided.
Do the sales have to be for an exact
month?
No. please provide the numbers as they appear on your
first royalty report, even if this only covers part of a month. If you are
provided with royalty figures on a quarterly basis, please provide data for the
first quarter.
What if I only know my 'sales to date'?
If you do not know first year or month please just answer 4)
and 5). Partial data is accepted.
Do I report only ebook
sales?
Please report sales in all formats, but count sales from
the date of the first release even if this is for the ebook version
only.
How do I report sales from third party
sites?
Report the sales based on the royalty report they appear
upon rather than the date the sale was made.
Will you use my
name?
No. When you report data I will give you a random three
letter code. When you send updates you should provide this code so I can match
the data to your books.
What if my book or
publisher is not erotic romance, is not digital?
My focus is on
erotic romance ebooks. However I will take data from any book and will report
aggregate data when I have at least 5 books. I am particularly interested in
data relating to erotic romance mass market paperbacks.
Report sales figures and other publisher information to veinglory ATgmail.com.
