18 Years of Book Sales Data, Analyzed in One Conversation
I’ve been selling books on Amazon since 2008. That’s 18 years of monthly royalty reports sitting in my account—and I’d never once looked at all of them together.
Last week I asked my AI assistant to change that. It pulled 16 months of detailed reports, cross-referenced them against my lifetime numbers, and gave me a clear picture of what’s actually happening.
The number that jumped out: running Amazon ads increased my monthly royalties by 69%. I averaged $318/month before ads. Now I average $537. April came in at $708—the strongest non-December month in 18 years.
It also caught something I’d completely missed. Audiobook royalties run on a separate track from ebook royalties. I had two income streams from the same books and was only mentally tracking one.
I didn’t open a single spreadsheet. I asked a question and got a complete breakdown with all the math.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant that lives on a server I control. It keeps memory between sessions, knows my business, and runs tasks on a schedule without being asked.
I teach a class on setting up and getting the most from OpenClaw — details at themeperks.com/openclaw-course/.
