Didn't Realize How HUGE We Were!
"To hit the best-seller list for verse, a book has to sell only around 30 copies."
Apparently every single No Tell Book title is a "best-seller" -- and that includes the one I considered having "shitty sales." Clearly I am much too hard on myself.
How can you sell 30 copies of your poetry book and get on the best-seller verse list?
For $99.99 I'll share with your my golden poetry selling secrets plus send you a FREE copy of the best-selling Wanton Textiles signed by best-selling poet, ME (a $10,000 value that you can take to eBay!).
What are you waiting for? Act Now!
Labels: book sales
posted by RL @ 1:08 AM
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4 Comments:
heh
Time should be fucking ashamed they let something like that appear under their banner.
30 copies in a single week is theoretically enough to be called a "bestseller" (& nothing to sneeze at, trust me!), but to make the actual list the book has to sell more/as many as all the billy collins's, mary olivers, and seamus heanys, maya angelous, ted koosers, matty stepaneks & khalil gibrans that rotate around up at the top there. oh, and they have to be sold via a reporting store (bookscan), which means mostly chains. (some indies do report, but it's a pay-to-play situation, and direct sales do not count. amazon does though.)
That whole article was vexing, that "30 copy bestseller" crack in particular.
The ONLY good argument for the article was their use of a photo from this year's Poetry Out Loud--51 enthusiastic high school students who can now say they had their picture in Time magazine.
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