The Average Book sells 500 copies
The Average Book sells 500 ONLY copies! Amazing!
Blogging for Business, far from a break-away best seller, beat that it the first week. Hopefully my next book will sell more than 500 copies before it's actually printed - prerelease copies are selling through Amazon and Barnes and Noble online.
That all said, if I wrote a book and only 500 copies sold, and maybe only 50 copies were actually read (most books sold are never read) I'd be happy if the right people read it.
But everything being equal, I'd rather sell a million copies. Or even 15,000 - considered extremely good for a business book.
Blogging for Business, far from a break-away best seller, beat that it the first week. Hopefully my next book will sell more than 500 copies before it's actually printed - prerelease copies are selling through Amazon and Barnes and Noble online.
That all said, if I wrote a book and only 500 copies sold, and maybe only 50 copies were actually read (most books sold are never read) I'd be happy if the right people read it.
But everything being equal, I'd rather sell a million copies. Or even 15,000 - considered extremely good for a business book.
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 11:01 PM
Comments on "The Average Book sells 500 copies"
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Reg Adkins said ... (Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:59:00 PM) :
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Reg Adkins said ... (Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:00:00 PM) :
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Ted Demopoulos said ... (Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:44:00 AM) :
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Marti said ... (Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:53:00 AM) :
post a commentI excited for your book to come out. I want to review it for my site. Can you recommend something else until then?
see how excited/ I left the "m" out of I'm. :)
Reg,
Glad you're in my book! I'm deep in copyediting and overloaded with the 48 hour expected turnaround, but I'm reading:
"All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin" and also looking forward to reading Phil Gerbyshak's "10 ways to make it great" (Amazon.com) and Marti Lawrence's "Queen Klutz" (lulu.com).
Broadening my reading horizons, and they're both in "WNOETYA Blogging and Podcasting" too.
{{Blushes modestly}}
LOL
Thanks for the plug, Ted! Best wishes for LOTS of sales!