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An Amazon-aware author emails:
Hardly anyone realises how few copies one needs to sell to get anywhere on Amazon. You only need to sell 150-200 copies to crack the Top 100 - most Amazon turnover is not 100 people buying the latest Stephen King, it’s 100 people buying 100 different books they might not find at their local bookshop. Hence Loewenstein’s jump from 500,000 to 80,000 might literally mean one or two copies getting sold. Trust me, I should know ...
If you only need sell 200 copies to hit the Top 100, how few copies must best-selling author Antony have moved to be down at 529,447?
I notice that Ant’s book is linked to Dhimmi Carter’s stinker, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. Wotta surprise.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 18 at 11:11 AM • permalinkSo our speculation that Ant bought a couple of copies of his vanity book might have been true?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 18 at 11:37 AM • permalinkIt would almost be worth it to ask for a copy at the new Borders’ being built down the road from me. Just so they’d get a couple of copies and watch them rot. (I would be willing to visit periodically and report on the condition of the books.) OTOH, that might rocket it up all the way to 50,000 if they got them from Amazon.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 05 18 at 02:33 PM • permalinkCurrently #553,904.
Loved the “customer reviews”!!!
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 05 18 at 06:31 PM • permalinkThe Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I rejoice.
It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion
Beneath the yoke.
What avail him now his awards and prizes,
The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,
His individual new voice?
Knocked into the middle of next week
His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys
The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs,
The Edsels of the world of moveable type,
The bummers that no amount of hype could shift,
The unbudgeable turkeys.If you only need sell 200 copies to hit the Top 100, how few copies must best-selling author Antony have moved to be down at 529,447?
500,000 to 80,000 to 500,000. Ant will launch a witchhunt to find which of his now former friends returned their copy as “goods not correctly described”.
“The author inferred he knew what he was talking about,” the disgruntled customer would have written. Amazon onviously agreed, gave back his money and returned Ant to the bottom of the best seller list - or the top of the worst-seller list, depending on your perspective.
Latest review
A Dishonest and Spiteful Book Badly Written
A very poor book indeed. Badly researched and one sided to the point of bigotry. Full of factual errors and a contempt for truth which would be difficult to find in the worst propaganda. A dishonest book very badly written. One wonders how it got published as it would not pass muster as an undergraduate honours thesis in any respectable university. There are many fine balanced books about this complex issue. Don’t waste your time and money on this one.It appears that there is now a whole industry of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, even antisemitic books and other media products written by people who make a point of claiming Jewish descent. Such people seem to have little difficulty finding helpful and supportive publishers, irrespective of the quality or merit of their work, especially of course when the publisher is not under normal commercial constraints. This book is an example of this genre of Middle East “scholarship” and a product of this industry. The book’s publisher is an Australian university press that has spent an enormous amount of time and money on editing and publicity to little effect. The publisher is of course funded by public money. It appears oblivious to the damage it does to its, and the university’s, academic and intellectual reputation.
It seems that with some people, it is hate, not love, that is blind.
Loewenstein is not a journalist and it is dishonest for him to claim he is. He worked for a Sydney newspaper a number of years ago as a junior assistant on a blog but was soon fired.
geoffff
18 May 2007I should also point out that there are several popular pinko bookstores in inner Melbourne now stocking America Alone. Not that it does me any good, I had to buy off of Amazon around Christmas time as it was a present for my dad and it was nowhere to be seen, Melbourne or Brisbane. You can now find it wedged between some wistful communist/islamist love stories and books about evil zionist jew pigs eating the eyeballs of Palestinian children in satanic rituals.
#76,454
He bought a couple more! This is hysterical!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 19 at 02:57 PM • permalinkJeez!
Went to check out Ant’s book reviews and got a good belly laugh that Amazon are recommending that we can save a bit of cash by purchasing together Ant’s book and Jimmy Carter’s Palestine. Peace not ApartheidPosted by Hank Reardon on 2007 05 20 at 01:03 AM • permalink
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Once you sink that low, people are mailing copies back to you… postage due.