{"id":738,"date":"2009-10-06T16:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-10-09T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:44:20","slug":"economics-for-everyone-our-biggest-seller-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Economics for Everyone &#8211; our biggest seller ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 118px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economics for Everyone\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl30.pair.com\/unionist\/ccp51\/media\/images\/product_detail\/economics_new.gif\" alt=\"Best seller\" width=\"108\" height=\"162\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Best seller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>24 hours after making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/bookshop\/?p=85\"><em>Economics for Everyone<\/em><\/a> our book of the week, we&#8217;ve seen 75 orders placed (some for multiple copies) with sales totals (including shipping) reaching US $2,662.<\/p>\n<p>This may be our biggest selling title ever.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to promotion of the book in a mass mailing, Derek did a mailing to his Canadian contacts which certainly helped.\u00a0 The book also appears on the front page of LabourStart, in our Labour&#8217;s Online Bookstore blog, on UnionBook (in the Union Books group, the largest group there), on our Facebook group page, and was promoted via Twitter as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nice things we are doing here is making a book that would otherwise have a very limited geographic distribution available to trade unionists everywhere. The first few sales of this book all came from the eastern hemisphere &#8212; and it&#8217;s unlikely that trade unionists in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands would have ever heard of it if we hadn&#8217;t promoted it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also discovered that our Polish comrades are interested in publishing a Polish language version of the book &#8212; one more unintended consequence of our promotion of these books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 hours after making Economics for Everyone our book of the week, we&#8217;ve seen 75 orders placed (some for multiple copies) with sales totals (including shipping) reaching US $2,662. This may be our biggest selling title ever. In addition to promotion of the book in a mass mailing, Derek did a mailing to his Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/738"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}