Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
>

Seems to me that the only statistic we're really interested
in is how many books of the printrun have been sold.

Rich Lynch
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