I hope the data in the screenshot answers this question well enough. This is just the 7th day of the campaign, and the conversion rate is more than 19%. Hear me correctly: I do not mean to say that reviews are not important. Quite the opposite, I am sure reviews are essential for success. But do not let the absence of reviews (yet) stop you from actively promoting your book. And next, to get a very good deal for the BookVillage review platform, use the link https://bookvillage.pub/?via=guild Have you had experience with good book sales without reviews, or with a minimal number of them?

This weekend, I hope to meet some of you at the London Mastermind. Last week was pretty slow for me because of Easter preparations, and this week is shorter due to travel preparations. Nevertheless, it was interesting to review the results of March. For the first time in my experience, a book published at the start of a month earned $200 by the end of that same month. It is a book in a very limited niche, not one with high potential, but it is interesting to see how powerful series can be. Every new book starts faster than previous one. I hope I will have a lot of interesting ideas to share after the mastermind. How is your week going? Will you be in London this weekend?

A small yet powerful tool was added today to Publisher Tools at RoyaltyGuild.com: KDP Sales Analyzer. KDP Royalty Estimator is good for seeing sales for a period, but it offers very limited options for seeing trends. Publisher Champ is a great solution, but it could be overwhelming with the amount of reports it provides. To make decisions about the development of our portfolios, we need to see the key data and trends. You can visit https://kdpreports.amazon.com/royalties, open Start Date, choose Lifetime, and click the big button Download report on the right. After you save the report file, drop it into https://royaltyguild.com/tools/sales-analyzer, and you will see the most important data in a very intuitive format. The service does not save any data on a server; all data is processed in your browser. And it's free for everybody. Enjoy!

Finally, ver. 2.1 of Royalty Guild Market Analyst is approved by Google, and now you can conduct niche research in one click. The review collection functionality of the extension remains intact. If you are on a book page, you can collect the reviews and paste them into an LLM with the readily available prompt. If you are on an Amazon search page, you will collect the books' titles, BSR, review count, and price to paste into an LLM with the research prompt. Also, if you need to, you can save reviews and/or niche data as .csv files. So, two major research processes are now fully automated. Please, share your experience with the extension. Would you like to tweak something? To add some functionality?

The last two weeks were unusually slow and silent in the Guild. I am not sure, but it feels like there was less activity in most of the communities I am involved in. Is it just my perception, or have you experienced the same? Anyway, the Guided Publishing System is now built and fully operational. I am in the process of creating the new book with the system, and it works exactly as it was supposed to - "blank page syndrome" gone. Every time I come back to the book, I know exactly what the next step is. The same thing applies to the Review Catalyst tracker - it removed a lot of hustle and ambiguity from the process. I used the Paperback 3D Mockup for the A+ content for a few of my books, and it totally changed the experience of creating marketing materials. I am not sure if it's interesting to anybody except @Yannick Di Mondo, @Sven Georgiev and me. Anyway, it's OK for me to continue developing the tools, even if only three of us will use them. Slowly, without a rush, providing functionality that publishers are interested in. So, what is on your mind? What are you doing now? What are you aiming for? P. S. @Ana-Rita Piirainen It's so nice to see you back!