Re: Topic ****ft to What Do Book Sales Tell Us? (from Re: learn.perl.org)

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Adam Turoff wrote:

> It very well
> could be that this book is exceeding sales projections yet not finding 
> a
> place on the top 25 because the other bestsellers are so damn strong.

I hadn't considered this--it's a good point. I was looking at its 
relative performance in that limited set--better to look at (for 
instance) Amazon figures and put it into a bigger context. That I'm not 
immediately going there to look indicates that perhaps I was building 
on a slender read [sic] to flog a familiar hobbyhorse.

I'd write further, but the baby is crying--something about wanting to 
go to a conference with

	John A