Romance Short Reads(2hr) Custom Top 100 Newsletter

TOP 100 ANALYSIS

Overview

The full path on the Kindle Store for Romance Short Reads(2hr) is Kindle Short Reads > Two-Hour Short Reads > Two-Hour Romance Short Reads. See the Top 100 page, the Whole Category page, the Last 30 Days page and the Preorders page.

The median book (book #50) was at Best Sellers Rank 3905 in the Kindle Store. Half the books in the Top 100 were between ranks 2730 and 4773.

• There were 11 standalone books, and 89 books which were in 40 unique series.
  
• There were 98 books in KU, and 2 wide.
  
• There were 8 books published by an imprint of a major traditional publisher, and 92 books estimated to be independent or self-published.
  
• There were 64 separate authors in the Top 100.  See the number of books by each author.
  

Based on the 30-day average, an estimated 250 titles were published in Romance Short Reads(2hr) this week.

Best Sellers Rank How old are the titles and what are their ranks? 50 books are up to 30 days old. See them in a table, or show them at Amazon. 41 books are between 1 month and 6 months old. See them in a table, or show them at Amazon. 9 books are over 6 months old. See them in a table, or show them at Amazon.

Price Breakdown How many books are at each price point? 76 books are 2.99 or less. See them. 23 books are between 2.99 and 4.99. See them. 1 books are more than 4.99. See them. Or see all the books sorted by price. For more detail on the prices of specific books, click the 'Open the Dashboard' button below. You can sort and filter the Dashboard by price and KU status.

TITLES TO WATCH

The Titles To Watch section is a new feature highlighting books in the Top 100; they may be preorders or brand-new this week and already charting, or by popular authors with other books in the Top 100. Even if they're not your comp titles, you may wish to be aware of their content, blurbs and marketing. 

Blade (Iron Rogues MC Book 3) Fiona Davenport Released this week BikerCharacterDoctorCharacterForbidden LoveTrope

Wild Heart: An Age Gap Protector Romance (Wild Heart Mountain: Wild Rider's MC Book 6) Sadie King Released this week BikerCharacterBBW/CurvyCharacterOrganized CrimeThemeAge GapThemeMilitaryThemeForbidden LoveTrope

A Winter Crest Wonderland: Ozzie & Nycole Kiara Released this week HolidaySetting

A Winter Crest Wonderland: Noah & Nayeli Tiara Released this week HolidaySetting

COVERS

Cover Montage and Colorboard

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Click on the images above (on desktop) or pinch (on mobile) to zoom in. Covers are sorted by similarity^?. The 'color board' shows the dominant colors from each cover in a palette based on their impact.

BLURBS AND TITLES

Popular Words

Popular words in titles this week were christmas(15), holiday(10), mountain(6) and scrooge(3)

Popular words in blurbs^? this week were read(44), good(24), christmas(23) and holiday(23). See the whole list.

Word Frequency in Blurbs

Blurb Structure

Blurbs had a median of 13 sentences across 6 paragraphs.  Text analysis^? of the blurbs in the bestselling 100 suggests:

• 60 were written in third-person (see them)
  
• 37 were written in first-person (see them)
  
• 9 of the first-person blurbs had more than one point of view.
  

To learn more about blurbs, click the 'Download Blurbs' button below, and get them all in a single PDF.

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