TDPL Amazon rank at 4-months high

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/1/11 2:04 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 01:47 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/1/11 1:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2011-03-01 00:12, Bekenn wrote:
>>>> Awesome! I actually just received my copy (ordered through an Amazon
>>>> reseller) a couple of days ago. I somehow ended up with one of the
>>>> limited edition copies...
>>>
>>> The non-limited seems to be the rare one.
>>>
>>
>> Yah, perhaps sales aren't that strong after all :o).
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Perhaps they reprinted with "the fault" in order to milk the "limited
> edition" factor?

No.

> And remember the "best seller rank" is regionally dependent, i.e.
> different Amazon servers will deliver different results.
>
> There is also historical hysteresis to their figure:  my "Developing
> Java Software" second edition still rates higher than the third edition
> even though the publisher reports the third edition has sold the same
> number of copies -- which is actually quite a lot thankfully.

Forgive my ignorance - I didn't know you have a book portfolio, and so 
impressive at that. Congratulations!

Yah, there are many variables. Add to those many handling details that 
influence the process. TDPL has certainly sold more than 1830 copies by 
now (= the collector's edition count) but booksellers have no obligation 
to send older prints first, so it all depends on which batch they have 
handy when shipping. Also I'm sure some smaller booksellers have gotten 
a batch from the collector's edition that hasn't been sold yet.


Andrei