Re: Marketing efforts: First feedback

In article <heqxQZKfL9eEFwu2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Julia Jones <julia.jones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <447BCD77.7040506@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sea Wasp
<seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
The numbers are ALSO weighted by cost of book; a more expensive
book ranks higher when it sells. So Boundary, which is unlikely to
actually sell many more than DK, but which retails at about 3.5 times
the price, spent quite a while below 10k on the Amazon rankings.

Which reminds me - I got a "you might like these" email from Amazon
today, with suggestions based on books I've told it that I own. It was
heavily biased towards Baen (probably because I posted a review of
Harald a couple of weeks ago), and Boundary was one of the books listed.

David didn't mention one thing that might be useful information - the
book dealer who was stocking Harald (Tom of The Other Change of Hobbit)
said that he'd appreciate David signing any remaining stock on the last
day of the con, but not to sign the shop stock before then, because
people who bought the book at the con would probably want to buy an
unsigned copy and track down David and get him to sign it for them
personally.

Yes.

He didn't have any left for me to sign, but I did leave him a couple
more maps for future sales. He thought that including the map helped
sell the three copies he had and sold at the con. I know one person came
to me during my signing with both book and map, and wanted me to sign
both.

The (optimistic) theory underlying my efforts is not that anything I do
will sell thousands of books directly, but that selling dozens, with
luck a hundred or two, books may result in people who like them
recommending them to friends, and so start a word of mouth chain
reaction.

--
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Author of _Harald_, a fantasy without magic.
Published by Baen, in bookstores now
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