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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #30 on: May 07, 2005, 02:01:59 AM »
Me too?  (trade for a numbered copy, I mean) I didn't realize that was done. Don't know if I'll make it down to Utah this summer, but I could trade you at Cascadiacon.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2005, 08:45:36 AM »
On Tuesday he was only on #9.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2005, 03:09:02 PM »
If you're interested to hear BookScan numbers... about 450 sold to consumers each of the last 2 weeks. (This is bookstores...I don't know if it includes Amazon.)
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #33 on: May 11, 2005, 07:28:37 PM »
What do those numbers mean, exactly?  
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #34 on: May 11, 2005, 07:34:50 PM »
I just talked to my agent about that.

He says those are good numbers.  Not "lets dance in the street" numbers, but good numbers.

Bookscan estimates their numbers cover about 70% of the US market.  That puts me at selling about 1200 copies or so.  On a book like this--where nobody has heard of the author--we really depend on word of mouth to push the sales.  

So, the number to watch is drop-off.  The fact that we sold about the same number of copies in the first week as we did in the second is a very good sign.  An even better sign will be if they continue to be in the 300-400 range for this week.  

Ookla, are these numbers something you could peek at for me consistently?
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #35 on: May 11, 2005, 08:22:58 PM »
I'll try to check them every week, until the guy in marketing gets tired of me...

The weeks end on Sunday (I think that means they include Sunday numbers), so those numbers don't include anything from this week. I'll let you know what I find out next week.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #36 on: May 11, 2005, 10:33:17 PM »
Does that include B&N.com as well or not?
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #37 on: May 11, 2005, 11:36:42 PM »
It for sure includes BN bookstores, but I don't know if it includes bn.com. I would kinda think yes.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #38 on: May 12, 2005, 03:19:12 AM »
Does Amazon order directly from Tor or from random distributers?  Becasue if it was from Tor we could get a number on how many they've sold.

only selling about 10% of the books published seams kind of weak, especialy when last week they were talking about a second printing.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #39 on: May 12, 2005, 05:55:42 AM »
I'm pretty sure most of the books would have been sold through Tor's distributor, Holtzbrink.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #40 on: May 18, 2005, 02:52:34 PM »
Here's the exact weekly numbers through 5/15

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424
454
413
Total: 1334

Could be a peak, but a pretty flat one...
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #41 on: May 18, 2005, 04:10:07 PM »
Damnit people! Just 3 more books and EUOL would have been the most net-saavy author in the world!
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #42 on: May 18, 2005, 04:36:42 PM »
or at least the most retarded one with familiarity to make stupid use out of the keyboard and brain-damagedly thinking using a script makes him a hacker.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #43 on: May 18, 2005, 04:54:05 PM »
Ookla--

Joshua will be glad to hear those numbers.  If we can stay around 400 for a while longer, we're doing pretty well.
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Re: Second Printing
« Reply #44 on: May 18, 2005, 05:04:12 PM »
I think someone has a problem with leet. And punctuation.
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