Fame

[koganbot]

From July '08 to June '09 UGA Press sold 5 hardcover copies of Real Punks (presumably to libraries) and 6 paperbacks. In the meantime they got returns on 30 copies of the paperback. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE USED COPIES, HUH? And library borrowings? Who's keeping track?

I presume that 1,100 or so copies of the paperback have been donated to the State of Georgia for landfill. The way I figure it, if they sell another 548 copies of the paperback not at discount, which is never going to happen, then they'll catch up with the royalties they overpaid me and I can start earning some more. They have to sell another 411 of the hardcover before I get a cent on them (minimum is 500, and given that I've sold a total of 89, this is even more not going to happen than selling another 548 of the ppbk is not going to happen). So we're at 718 ppbk's (out of 2,000 printed, oops!) and 89 hardcovers, for a grand total of 817. Which I think is more than double the sales of the original printing of Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil. But clearly I need to go insane if I want to improve my numbers.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

He has gone to bank already.

[(Anonymous)]

He is at his bank right now.

[koganbot]

I believe the above comments refer to Nietzsche.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I own one of those 817 copies--paperback of course. I didn't know I was in such select company.

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[(Anonymous)]

crap does this mean that if i want to put your book on the syllabus for my spring course, there won't be any left apart from those in landfills' collections?


j.

[koganbot]

Well, I was joking about the landfill.

But yes, Kogan readers are among the most discriminating. (Of course, I'm not assuming that all 817 book owners have read the thing. But maybe a couple of the library copies were read twice.)