Understand Your Readers with Author Analytics

Writing a book is a creative journey, but growing your readership requires understanding how readers engage with your work. Knowing which books attract attention, where your audience is growing, and how readers interact with your catalogue can help you make more informed decisions about marketing, future releases, and reader engagement.

BooksAffair's Author Analytics gives you a clear view of how readers discover and interact with your books—all from your Author Panel.

Why Author Analytics Matters

Reader engagement goes beyond book sales.

A reader who bookmarks your book today may purchase it later. Someone who follows your profile may become a loyal reader for your next release. Reviews, recommendations, and reading activity all tell a story about how your books are connecting with readers.

Author Analytics helps you understand these patterns so you can focus your efforts where they matter most.

What You Can Measure

The Analytics dashboard brings together engagement across your author profile and book catalogue in one place.

You can monitor activity such as:

• Profile views
• Followers
• Book ratings
• Reviews received
• Reading status (Want to Read, Reading, Read)
• Bookmarks and favourites
• Recommendations
• Shares

Instead of looking at isolated numbers, you see how readers interact with your books over time.

Track Individual Books or Your Entire Catalogue

Whether you've published one book or many, Analytics lets you view performance at different levels.

Book-Level Analytics

Review engagement for an individual title, including reader ratings, reviews, bookmarks, favourites, and recommendations.

This helps identify which books are attracting the most reader interest.

Catalogue Analytics

View engagement across all your books to understand overall audience growth and compare performance between titles.

This is particularly useful for authors with multiple books or series.

Discover Where Your Readers Are

BooksAffair Analytics includes geographic insights that help you understand where interest in your books is growing.

Location data can help you:

• Identify regions with active readers
• Plan book launches or events
• Focus promotional campaigns
• Better understand your audience

Knowing where readers engage can help you make more informed marketing decisions.

Monitor Trends Over Time

Reader engagement changes over time.

Analytics visualises activity through charts and trends, making it easier to identify patterns such as:

• Increased activity after a book launch
• Reader engagement following promotions
• Long-term growth in followers
• Books that continue attracting readers over time

Rather than relying on snapshots, you can monitor how engagement evolves.

Author Insights at a Glance

To make analytics easier to understand, the dashboard highlights key insights, including:

Audience Growth

Track profile views, followers, and overall audience development.

Book Engagement

Understand how readers interact with your books through ratings, reviews, bookmarks, recommendations, and shares.

Top Performing Books

Identify which titles generate the strongest engagement so you can prioritise future promotions or related content.

These insights help you focus on the books and activities that resonate most with readers.

Make Better Decisions

Analytics isn't about collecting numbers—it's about using them.

By understanding reader behaviour, you can:

• Promote books that already show strong engagement
• Identify titles that may need additional visibility
• Measure the impact of marketing campaigns
• Understand which genres or series attract the most readers
• Build stronger connections with your audience

Every interaction provides another piece of the story behind your readership.

Free and Premium Access

BooksAffair provides analytics to all authors, with different levels of historical data depending on your plan.

Free accounts include access to recent activity, while premium plans provide extended history and deeper insights for authors managing long-term marketing campaigns.

This allows authors to start tracking engagement immediately and unlock more detailed analysis as their audience grows.