On David Graeber and On self-organizing non-profits in the real world of the US.

[Mark Kohut]

I have seen this happen in my career and now have seen---heard of it---
happening again with this book:

The publisher is out of stock, having shipped their entire first printing.
Quantity unknown. The publication day is Nov 9.

Stores are just getting it in---if they ordered it in advance per
normal....people like me have been and still are placing orders for it.
It was not on my indie store's radar therefore she has none coming in.

When a new book is out of stock, almost all bookstores( except chain
bookstores---but they can too)  go to the nation's wholesalers, one the
major one to indie stores. That company's
major warehouses are also out of their initial buys and they have customer
backorders at over 4,000, over 2600, over 2200 and I don't know the other.
Let me tell you, these numbers are high and rare....( a loose, very loose
rule of thumb we used to throw around was that for every backorder placed,
nine others would buy it IF it were in stock.
That rule of thumb is surely too high here; not much impulse or spontaneous
buying that will move on to the latest shining object for this one---but
sales will be huge....

Graeber has broken through to huge bestsellerdom, check the BS lists in
two, three weeks---a book cannot be on a bestseller list BEFORE pub day,
LOL....

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 4:37 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> > Subject: Re: On David Graeber and On self-organizing non-profits in the
> real world of the US.
> > Date: October 24, 2021 at 3:24:04 PM EDT
> > To: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> >
> > Wow. Read first article, 2 mentions of Kropotkn while I am on my last
> page of a biography about him and determined to read some of his writings.
> Now a new book to add.
> >
> >> On Oct 24, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk
> <mailto:mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Saturday's Guardian -
> >>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/23/the-dawn-of-everything-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-inequality-is-not-the-price-of-civilisation
> <
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/23/the-dawn-of-everything-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-inequality-is-not-the-price-of-civilisation
> >
> >> And this which fired my interest last week.
> >>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong
> <
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong
> >
> >> It's all good stuff to stir in to the mix
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 24/10/2021 17:52, Joseph Tracy wrote:
> >>> Liked Graeber’s writing very much. Do you have a reference for this?
> >>>
> >>
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