NP - Book sales info question for p-list

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, know someone inside the companies who will give it to you despite being not allowed to. Need to know
someone at ALL the companies, ya want it all...\
 
PW gets it from publishers and publishers lie. 
 
Point-of-sales tracker Bookscan now totals all who report to it----not all do.
 
Decent round numbers leak out over time...
 
Know the agent who will share....the ONLY one outside of a company that gets EXACT numbers.....
 
16 printings does show steady sales BUT problem with using printings is we don't know the size of them. 
I know ATD printing was relatively HUGE---knew it from the distribution----at NEWSSTANDS! IN DISPLAY
DUMPS IN THE CHAINS....so it did not meet sales expectations (which was why amazon later sold at 70 or more percent off)
 
So, I'm sure first printing for IV was much smaller....then all the reviews went over the top----cause they could read it......
So forth, as AtD has it.....
 
 
From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:10 AM
Subject: NP - Book sales info question for p-list 


Dear fellow P-listers,
 
    In Ian Rankin's book review of AD he writes: "The latest paperback of VL has gone into eighteen printings in six years, hinting at a readership beyond the groves of academe"
 I was wondering if anyone had advice on how to gain access to book sales information. I know that Publishers Weekly has the info but I seem to recall it not being free or cheap. Any ideas?
 
MC
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