Oddly, my order from Amazon UK is showing end-of-November as the delivery date. This is both considerably later than the "shipping now", and (if I remember correctly) earlier than the supposed UK release. I wonder if Amazon are shipping the US edition to the UK. The estimate on the page for the book says 10-11 days (which itself is earlier than the estimate on my actual order).
Amazon uk claims a sales rank for it of 948, which is amazing. However, having watched the sales rank of Frances' Fly By Night, it seems to fluctuate wildly, so I'm not sure on what basis they calculate it.
They are indeed shipping the US edition, which would explain the delay. I'd hope that soon enough they'll have some US copies in their UK warehouse. The UK edition won't be out until March.
948 is pretty encouraging though - probably a result of the new column named after the book. My understanding is that if you make top 1000 in the US you're selling about 10 a day through Amazon. Top 1000 in the UK is probably about 2-3 day but who knows? You have to stay there a long time to make any money...
Hope Frances's book is doing well. For a brief time our books were being cross-recommended, which shows who was buying them before they were published!
Haven't had time to look around due to work madness, and now it's Gaelcon, but I'll sneak around Dublin bookshops during the week and reposition it into the bestseller sections when I see it :)
I enjoyed reading the excerpt in your /favourites/ directory and am very likely to buy a copy of your book myself. ("Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.")
You might be amused to know that price-targeting worked the other way around for the UK version of my book; the paperback came out first and sold for £6 in the games/sports/puzzles sections of regular bookstores, the hardback came out later and sold in bins in Woolworths for people who like big chunky colourful books and don't care too much what the books are about. (The hardback didn't even have a price printed on it - different Woolworths charged prices from 99p to £2.99, pretty much ad lib.)
Don't forget to buy several copies of your book from a bookstore using a {credit|debit} card, just to see if the shop assistant recognises from the similarity between the name of the author and the name on the card that you're doing it because you're the author. If they do, invoke the name of J. R. Hart - ley.
Very interesting! Although it seems that the price targeting strategy was the same (high prices first) it was just that the use of hard and soft covers was inverted. Thanks for letting me know!
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Amazon uk claims a sales rank for it of 948, which is amazing. However, having watched the sales rank of Frances' Fly By Night, it seems to fluctuate wildly, so I'm not sure on what basis they calculate it.
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The UK edition won't be out until March.
948 is pretty encouraging though - probably a result of the new column named after the book. My understanding is that if you make top 1000 in the US you're selling about 10 a day through Amazon. Top 1000 in the UK is probably about 2-3 day but who knows? You have to stay there a long time to make any money...
Hope Frances's book is doing well. For a brief time our books were being cross-recommended, which shows who was buying them before they were published!
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You might be amused to know that price-targeting worked the other way around for the UK version of my book; the paperback came out first and sold for £6 in the games/sports/puzzles sections of regular bookstores, the hardback came out later and sold in bins in Woolworths for people who like big chunky colourful books and don't care too much what the books are about. (The hardback didn't even have a price printed on it - different Woolworths charged prices from 99p to £2.99, pretty much ad lib.)
Don't forget to buy several copies of your book from a bookstore using a {credit|debit} card, just to see if the shop assistant recognises from the similarity between the name of the author and the name on the card that you're doing it because you're the author. If they do, invoke the name of J. R. Hart - ley.
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Maybe they'd had dozens, and sold all but two already?
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