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Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Werthead Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM
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.


AFFC had a very high print run. I thought it was reported as half a million at the time, but apparently it was around 300,000, which sold out before publication and had to be reprinted immediately. The print run for ADWD I heard was going to be around the 500,000 mark in the USA alone with preperations to reprint ASAP.

ASoIaF's future sales prospects are also going to be affected by the TV series. If ASoIaF's sales increase by even a quarter of the margin that Charlaine Harris's did in the year after TRUE BLOOD started airing, the entire readership of the series will more than double in twelve months. That's pretty sobering.

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.


According to some of my contacts, they estimate the importance of the Internet in book-buying habits has risen from perhaps 1% of the audience ten years ago to around 10% now. Unfortunately, most of that 10% is down to mass-media outlets and Amazon. Thusly, Harriet Klausner and Robert Stanek alts continue to have more influence on book-buying habits than any SFF blog in existence
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Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Tom - 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM 1975 Views
I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him. LiterateDog - 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM 1008 Views
I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom. everynametaken - 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM 1105 Views
I'm beginning to agree. Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM 1000 Views
I do like Neil Gaiman's writing, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 10:01:24 AM 428 Views
I can forgive you. *NM* Tom - 22/09/2010 02:08:46 PM 465 Views
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM 925 Views
Far more people watched B&B than have read ASoIaF. Werthead - 23/09/2010 07:01:22 PM 1100 Views
good point *NM* aragornital - 22/09/2010 08:07:16 AM 532 Views
Wait a minute... Larry - 22/09/2010 11:33:37 PM 1058 Views
I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM 943 Views
bahahahahahahahahaha temeraire - 22/09/2010 06:10:26 AM 1032 Views
I was in an odd mood last night Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:46 AM 880 Views
Hahaha Darth_Katie - 22/09/2010 01:24:17 PM 1008 Views
I'm not sure I'd be dictating chapters from my deathbed Tom - 23/09/2010 03:35:43 AM 904 Views
I was thinking the same things a couple days ago Fox and Ravens - 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM 1142 Views
I'm not sure Brandon Sanderson could finish the series, either. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:33:52 AM 932 Views
Sadly, I would be satisfied with this. StormCrow - 23/09/2010 03:01:04 PM 1024 Views
If I was an author I wouldn't defend him. Tigr - 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM 1007 Views
I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were". Tom - 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM 881 Views
If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. *NM* Tigr - 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM 461 Views
Martin is not the only one... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:16:51 AM 977 Views
If he had only ever written stand-alone books... Gher - 22/09/2010 03:42:48 PM 987 Views
There is more than an expectation. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:30:32 AM 992 Views
I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM* Macharius - 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM 429 Views
Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM* Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM 427 Views
You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right? Larry - 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM 1035 Views
Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC Werthead - 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM 1012 Views
Close enough Larry - 22/09/2010 11:26:51 PM 1054 Views
There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM 926 Views
I know - I was just thinking about wait times for stories Larry - 23/09/2010 03:40:09 AM 867 Views
Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost Tashmere - 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM 859 Views
Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Larry - 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM 1111 Views
Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Werthead - 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM 1030 Views
which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon? Aeryn - 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM 960 Views
That's why I always do. Werthead - 25/09/2010 04:51:49 PM 869 Views
Re: Mostly, because I don't buy from Amazon. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:09:03 AM 454 Views
I don't plan to read it. nossy - 26/09/2010 03:28:02 PM 1127 Views
As I said in a previous response... Larry - 26/09/2010 11:15:13 PM 905 Views
I only recently started reading the books fistofpainx - 23/09/2010 04:17:14 AM 947 Views
Re: I only recently started reading the books Fox and Ravens - 23/09/2010 03:36:17 PM 915 Views
Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God? Tim - 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM 977 Views
Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM 393 Views
I'm always amused by these threads. Variant - 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM 953 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Fox and Ravens - 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM 1038 Views
Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book. Kotagg - 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM 921 Views
I never said it was hypocritical, just saying it's amusing. *NM* Variant - 25/09/2010 11:06:42 AM 429 Views
So y'all just bitching? Variant - 25/09/2010 10:31:23 AM 961 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Werthead - 25/09/2010 05:04:56 PM 878 Views
Re: This is funny beyond the telling. Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:07:40 AM 919 Views
Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Mossman - 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM 857 Views
Here's the thing... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:23:14 AM 1262 Views
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