Jun 122012
 

In my last income report, I had mentioned a discrepancy in the NOOK store numbers. The reports showed about 500 sales of Bus Jumper, my Flurry data confirmed a similar number of new users, but the revenue numbers didn’t match up. Well, apparently, when B&N were processing the last update I made, they accidentally made the game free for a few hours. The roughly 500 downloads happened during the time that the game was free. Since this was their error, they are going to pay me what I would have earned if those had been legitimate sales. I should receive this payment at the end of June. There were a total of 564 copies downloaded for free, which works out to $390.78 that they are going to pay me.

This kinda sucks for B&N. I’m not going to complain about the money, but it’s a somewhat ironic way to generate revenue from your games :)

  13 Responses to “How I made $400 in Bus Jumper sales in one day”

  1. awesome payday, congrats on that. Oh btw why does your webpage load up like a mobile iphone app!?

    • Hmm. I have a WordPress plugin that presents a mobile theme if you’re connecting from a mobile device. But on a computer, it should look like a normal website.

  2. congratulations! this should happen more often ;)
    bye
    phil

  3. What would have happened if it had been 1.000.000 Downloads…

  4. Really pleased for you Ziggy! B&N have just covered your development costs haha!

  5. Not a reliable source of money.. but hey.. Way to go.

    Off-topic: I think the connect with facebook it’s broken..

  6. Interesting, 500 downloads and zero ratings this market is very specific.

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