Here are the stats for the first 48 hours of my recent novel release. I pay attention to this information, even if it isn’t sales, because it interests me and I like to see how any work is doing when I release it.

The overall winner for generating hits is Scribd.com. They were gracious enough to feature my work once I put it up there. That front page bump really helps.

3,556 “Reads”
413 Downloads
8 5-Stars (including one by Scribd’s CEO)
9 Comments
1 Featured Award
1 Rising List Award

The next is Feedbooks, which is a pain to upload to, since all 134 sections of the book have to be put up separately. It took me about two hours to upload the whole thing, but I did it because I like that the site makes converting to other formats and downloading to mobile phones either. Work on Feedbooks grows slowly as your work falls from the “Recently Uploaded” page and moves up the “New and Popular page. It usually peeks around day 10 after uploading, so the first two days aren’t a great tell, but here they are anyway:

129 Downloads

Last, there is my site. Not many people take the work from my site since it’s only available in PDF, but I want to include it anyway.

16 Downloads

So there it is, the first 48 hours. Soon I will go through the lame process of removing all the tabs from my work so I can put it up on Smashwords. I also plan to release it via bit torrent, on Mininova, since I had good luck with that site when I released my tech poetry, which, to date, has been downloaded 2,797 times from that site alone.

I left out Wattpad this time around and will probably take my work down from there soon, since I’ve gotten less than 100 views or downloads from that site in the whole time I’ve had my work up there. I guess I just don’t participate in the social networking of that site enough to get good returns. Or I’m not writing vampire fiction. It’s probably a mix of both.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who made the first 48 hours a success!