{"id":1516,"date":"2012-02-29T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2012-02-29T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:24:21","slug":"sales-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Sales News"},"content":{"rendered":"

My agent just called to let me know that according to BookScan (does not cover all sales points, but enough to be useful)\u00a0 the hardcover sales of Echoes<\/em> in its first week in the marketplace were 180 higher than Kings<\/em> last year.\u00a0\u00a0 The actual hardcover sales will be some higher (and this is only for US sales, as far as I know.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also said it was unusual to have any sales figures run higher than last year’s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No word yet on e-sales.<\/p>\n

BookScan listed Echoes as #28\u00a0 in fiction (if my hearing wasn’t drowned out by internal fireworks already going off, that was “plain” fiction, not SF\/F.)\u00a0\u00a0 The NYT list comes out on Wednesdays,\u00a0 but later in the day,\u00a0 and NYT tracks different sales outlets than BookScan…but there’s a good chance of being on the extended list, my agent says.<\/p>\n

My UK editor said Echoes was #12 in SF\/F in one of the UK lists.<\/p>\n

Good news, in other words, and all due to you folks and those like you who haven’t found the blog yet.\u00a0 THANK YOU.<\/p>\n

The nitty gritty so far:\u00a0 the first printing was 12,000, and it was sent back to print last week for another 3000.\u00a0 No, this doesn’t mean they ran out, only that they don’t want to have to go back to print later…for the confirmed BookScan sales, plus the probable hc sales BookScan didn’t catch (my agent estimates about 300 of those)\u00a0 they may have shipped 3000.<\/p>\n

As of today, my agent said,\u00a0 Ingram (the big intermediary between publishers and brick-and-mortar bookstores) had no copies left in its Oregon warehouse, and the number in the Tennessee warehouse had dropped notably from a day or so ago.\u00a0\u00a0 (One of the things agents–good agents–do is track the supply of their clients’ books around the country–stocking in stores and in the distributors’ warehouses, as well as sales figures from wherever they can be pried.)\u00a0\u00a0 Second week sales usually drop off sharply and keep declining until they find their “stable” level for the rest of the year; there’s another bump when the paperback comes out (usually–we’ll see how that goes.)<\/p>\n

Anyway…thanks again for your support, both here and through your various contacts.\u00a0 Much appreciated!\u00a0 (And boy, do I hope I got all the figures right up there, with my head whirling happily!!)\u00a0 Meanwhile, back to the salt mines with two concurrent chunks running in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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