Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:19:50 -0400
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:26 PM 10/27/2005, Keith wrote:
>This is a combined reply to all comments about October's minutes.
> > If you could add somewhere that during the con it was noted that
> > Future Washington had climbed to about 4700 on the Amazon sales
> > list, which is a fairly astronomical figure, though the short term
> > result of publicity by its authors, it would be appreciated.
>
>I'll take your word for it that that's good.  Being in 4700th place
>doesn't sound all that impressive to me.  There aren't all that many
>books published, after all.  I see that at the moment they've fallen
>to 35,722 (paperback) and 70,348 (hardback).
Yes, but remember that Future Washington isn't just competing against
books published this year but all books in print (or at least sold by
Amazon).  For instance, The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton is
785,417 in Books