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Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« on: October 23, 2008, 03:11:19 AM »
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 03:17:00 AM »
Yes, congratulations and all the best of luck on your future endeavors.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2008, 03:38:07 AM »
Makes me wonder where it would have hit if the stores had actually ordered enough to begin with!

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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2008, 04:26:17 AM »
Or, if they had all actually released it on time... :)

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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2008, 04:29:22 AM »
No, the on time thing wasn't a factor (I think) because most of them went out on shelves on tuesday, which was the start of the count.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2008, 04:33:36 AM »
I think that this is a phenomenally good sign for Brandon. Now that he's become a bestselling author, I think that the only place to go is up. For later books, Tor probably would print more copies on the first run and avoid a lot of the distribution problems this one had. Cutting those problems out would definitely boost the spot on that bestseller list!

However, I thought that books put out early still counted for the release week, but maybe I read one of Brandon's blog posts wrong.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2008, 04:47:09 AM »
Just an idea on how many books were sold Book 3 sold about 5x more then Book two did in the first week.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2008, 04:55:56 AM »
How many copies did Book Two sell in the first week, though? Moreover, how many did Elantris/Mistborn/Well of Ascension sell overall? I've always wondered about statistics on that kind of stuff...

Also: wow, fives times more. That's incredible!
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2008, 05:01:37 AM »
I kind of figure if EUOL wants those numbers out he'll give them, since he didn't post it in his blog I'm reluctant to say.

However he did say that MB3 sold out at the distributer level and is in a second print and it's fairly common knowledge that a typical print run of one of these books is between 6-12 thousand.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2008, 05:24:37 AM »
Finally, an author that I actually want to read is on the List!  The other ones are good, but Brandon's stuff didn't need to be on the list to be good.
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2008, 05:35:17 AM »
Congrats Brandon!  I'll go get two stickers and put them on my copies! :p
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2008, 05:44:52 AM »
Yay!

Congratulations Brandon!

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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2008, 05:50:05 AM »
Oh WOW this is such good news! Congratulations, EUOL!
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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2008, 01:48:16 PM »
Llongyfarchiadau!

Which, as we all know, is Welsh for "congratulations!"

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Re: Hero of Ages hits Bestseller List!
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2008, 02:42:14 PM »
Grats! :)

Does sales in other countries increase the rating in the NY-bestsellerlist as well?

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