{"id":3202,"date":"2013-10-28T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:42:05","slug":"book-sales-for-book-number-3-the-first-5-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"Book sales for book number 3: The first 5 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the sales for “Firefox OS for Activists<\/a>” after 5 days:<\/p>\n

CreateSpace – 40<\/p>\n

Kindle – USA – 19; UK – 17; Germany – 1; Canada – 1<\/p>\n

Total sales: 78 books<\/strong><\/p>\n

By comparison, sales of our first book reached 377<\/strong> after just 15 days. Sales of our second book reached 180<\/strong> copies after just one week.\u00a0 So we’re selling the books considerably more slowly than we have in the past — instead of 25 books per day, less than 16 — a drop of nearly 40%.\u00a0 And our sales income will fall as well, as we’re not making any money on the Kindle sales.<\/p>\n

This is not unexpected — we anticipated that sales to our usual, trade union audience would be low and we still hope to develop a new audience for this book among people with an interest in new technology.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we’re waiting for Google to approve our ad for this book, and for the first reviews to appear.<\/p>\n

And we’re hoping to get a Spanish translation which would boost sales, as Firefox phones are selling very well in Latin America.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/strong> if you’ve bought the book and read it, please post your reviews to Amazon.com and let us know — we’ll publicize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are the sales for “Firefox OS for Activists” after 5 days: CreateSpace – 40 Kindle – USA – 19; UK – 17; Germany – 1; Canada – 1 Total sales: 78 books By comparison, sales of our first book reached 377 after just 15 days. Sales of our second book reached 180 copies after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}