For many years I have not looked at statistics. Between early 2023 and early 2025 I published quite a range of books and now I have a new kind of statistics. Here are my books:
- Franz Eduard Farwerck (1889-1969): His life and work – paperback 3 February 2023;
- Franz Eduard Farwerck (1889-1969): His life and work – Kindle ebook 2 February 2023;
- Franz Eduard Farwerck (1889-1969): Zijn leven en werk – paperback 3 February 2023;
- Franz Eduard Farwerck (1889-1969): Zijn leven en werk – Kindle ebook 2 February 2023;
- Gemengde Vrijmetselarij: in Nederland en Nederlandstalig België – paperback 10 February 2023;
- Gemengde Vrijmetselarij: in Nederland en Nederlandstalig België – Kindle ebook 9 February 2023;
- co-Masonry: Mixed gender Freemasonry around the world – paperback 10 February 2023;
- co-Masonry: Mixed gender Freemasonry around the world – Kindle ebook 9 February 2023;
- Freemasonry & Heathenry – paperback 17 February 2023;
- Freemasonry & Heathenry – Kindle ebook 16 February 2023;
- Gangleri.nl compendium – hardcover 17 February 2023;
- Gangleri.nl compendium – Kindle ebookbook 16 February 2023;
- The Kirwall Scroll Dissected – hardcover 19 June 2024;
- The Kirkwall Scroll Dissected – Kindle ebook 18 June 2024;
- Symbols of Freemasonry: A searchable book of Masonic symbols – hardcover 16 July 2024;
- Symbols of Freemasonry: A searchable book of Masonic symbols – Kindle ebook 4 July 2024;
- The Masonic Museum: Ancient Tracing Boards and other Images of Freemasonry – hardcover 12 February 2025;
- The Masonic Museum: Ancient Tracing Boards and other Images of Freemasonry – paperback 23 January 2025.
These weird publication dates are explainable. For every edition I have to make another book at Amazon KDP. When I publish, there is a (semi-automatic) publication process of Amazon and apparently, this goes more rapidly for ebooks. So much so even, that when I wanted to publish Symbols of Freemasonry, the ebook was already published, while the hardcover was picked up by the Amazon copyright team. I ended expanding the book with sources and published it again almost two weeks later. As for The Masonic Museum, I already had a few paperback editions out before I thought the book was ready for another version, so the hardcover (which has much better printing quality and therefor twice the price) followed somewhat later.
Anyway, even though the printing costs are remarkably low, about the same amount goes to Amazon and then there is a little bit for me. I do not intend to make money with the books, so the prices are as low as possible, I make round prices for every single Amazon store (different countries), but I do not make more than a fraction of a Euro up to a few per book.
The books hardly sell, so when I received the royalties for June I wondered what happened and logged in to see which book did well in that month. I expected it to be the last, but it turned out that almost all books had copies sold in June. I have no idea why.
Two digital copies of the Symbols book (that book really works better in print, also the print is in colour). One copy of the Dutch Farwerck book. One copy of the Dutch co-Masonry book, Freemasonry and Heathenry even, one copy of The Masonic Museum and one of The Kirkwall Scroll Dissected.
May was a more common month. One physical copy of Symbols and one of the Museum.
