Who else is selling books through the Google Play Store (Partner Center)?
Do you also experience problems with sales reporting?
For me, reporting has been stuck on June 13th. Customer support only said "they were on it", and that was over a week ago.
Seriously, a tech giant cannot handle a sales database? Shame on them.
I actually hope that the database is fine and that only the reporting interface is broken.
Even so, it's shameful.
@Firlefanz I expect the data is there - if nothing else, I'm sure they keep *very* careful records of anything that provides income for themselves.
Fixing a problem that results in delays to paying other people their cut? I'm sure that's a much lower priority for them than if, say, some problem prevented people buying stuff from the Play store.
So far, it's not affecting payment - they only pay out a month later.
However, I really like to see how promos affect sales.
(It's still a LOT better than trad publisher sales reporting, which happened about once a year.)
@Firlefanz
Who actually buys books (rather free downloads) via the Google Play store given their toxic use of payment methods?
Most of the apps are ad funded.
We were thinking of scrapping use of it & withdrawing all titles. You can only use a goggle email address.
We've sold on at least Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Flipcart, Kobo, Smashwords & Tolino. Only ever some free downloads in maybe 10+ years on Google.
The Playbooks reading App needs the Google Framework.
Funny enough, Google is my second best vendor after Amazon and has been for a few years. Everything else is far behind.
I have my books in every store I could reach, including PayHip, giving readers all options.
So far, they are choosing Amazon and Google. *shrug*
@Firlefanz
Maybe some genres are more favoured by Google Play store users?
Overall Google have a tiny percentage of world ebook sales in English.
They are incompetent.
Quite possible.
However, right now it would not be in my interest to lose that market. Especially as they sell in quite a few countries that Amazon cannot reach.
Sadly, I never really got a reader base with Kobo or Smashwords. Would much prefer that.
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