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Brandon Sanderson / ELANTRIS Paperback
« on: May 30, 2006, 03:20:45 PM »
Well, today is the official release date. I'm curious to see how paperback sales go--I've been through the hardback thing once, but paperback is a whole new world for me.
I was waiting to see what the Amazon numbers were today, and there's be a lot less fanfare than there was for the paperback. In hardback, we got to about #2500 in books the first few days. The paperback is around 40k right now, which is lower than it's been before, but hardly stunning.
Makes me wonder, however, how people even find new books on Amazon. There's really no way a small, genre book like this is going to get any sort of publicity on their site. My guess is that people have to go browse bookstores, see the book and want to buy it, then go order it off of Amazon. However, I see that happening far less frequently for paperbacks than hardbacks, since Amazon offers HBs at significant discounts, but paperbacks are at their regular prices.
I was waiting to see what the Amazon numbers were today, and there's be a lot less fanfare than there was for the paperback. In hardback, we got to about #2500 in books the first few days. The paperback is around 40k right now, which is lower than it's been before, but hardly stunning.
Makes me wonder, however, how people even find new books on Amazon. There's really no way a small, genre book like this is going to get any sort of publicity on their site. My guess is that people have to go browse bookstores, see the book and want to buy it, then go order it off of Amazon. However, I see that happening far less frequently for paperbacks than hardbacks, since Amazon offers HBs at significant discounts, but paperbacks are at their regular prices.