interest while waiting and those waits were much shorter. Also the last book was sorely dissappointing. I don't think I will be in a big rush to go out and buy it. I might be proven wrong if the reviews here are crazy wild about it. But other wise I may wait for a long time to buy it. He will lose the difference between the price of a hardback and a paperback.
It seems that once something gets a bit of visibility, delays often don't matter that much in sales and if there is any difference, it's usually an increase. After all, there have been tens of thousands of fans at the very least that have discovered this series in the past couple of years. They tend to more than make up for any "protest" no-buys. I suspect the print run for the upcoming book will top the quarter-million (or was it a half-million) that the last book had in 2005. After all, after a five year wait then, AFfC was the first #1 NYT Bestseller in the ASOIAF series.
Believe it or not, online communities tend to be outliers when it comes to predicting bookselling trends. It's been a sobering lesson over the past 9 years for me.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days...
- 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM
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I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him.
- 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM
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I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom.
- 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM
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I'm beginning to agree.
- 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM
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*NM*
*NM*
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series.
- 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM
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I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet.
- 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM
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I was thinking the same things a couple days ago
- 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM
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If I was an author I wouldn't defend him.
- 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM
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I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were".
- 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM
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If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. 
*NM*
- 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM
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*NM*
- 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM
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I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM*
- 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM
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Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM*
- 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM
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You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right?
- 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM
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There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz.
- 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM
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Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost
- 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM
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Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer
- 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM
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Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer
- 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM
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which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon?
- 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM
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Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God?
- 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM
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Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM*
- 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM
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I'm always amused by these threads.
- 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM
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Re: I'm always amused by these threads.
- 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM
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Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book.
- 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM
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Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days...
- 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM
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