I wrote a book. It's called "Land is a Big Deal":
www.landisabigdeal.com
It's based on my series of posts on Georgism on Astral Codex Ten:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progress-and-poverty
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-really
I believe Scott said that the articles collectively received 300,000+ views.
Some facts:
The book is published by a very small publisher (literally the second book they've published)
It's my first book.
I don't have an amazingly organized plan for promotion but I got a lot of great endorsements from some famous people.
I'll post some ranges, pick the one you think is most likely.
Resolution will count all book sales sold across all formats (Book, Audio Book, eBook) and stop counting one month after the book is published October 15, 2022. It will include all preorders made before then.
Further context, this comment from a lady from NPD bookscan on what the most common sales figures for books are:
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-only-a-dozen/comment/8883524
Money quote: "roughly 66% of those books from the top 10 publishers sold less than 1,000 copies over 52 weeks."
So roll it all together and make your guess about how well you think I will do relative to those odds.
Sep 25, 10:46pm: Also here's what twitter thinks:
https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1574231191741497345
1,000๐ Top traders
| # | Name | Total profit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | แน364 | |
| 2 | แน60 | |
| 3 | แน36 | |
| 4 | แน15 | |
| 5 | แน12 |
People are also trading
@LarsDoucet I'm entirely fine with insider information โ imho, the purpose of the market is to convey knowledge, not necessarily be "fair".
It's an issue if this is performed exploitatively, but in general, the more information embedded in the price, the better.
@LarsDoucet Any idea how Amazon + etc inclusion would help? Buying from a small, independent publisher may have limited the reach.
Overall, surprised! I bought two copies! ๐
@andrew We are on Amazon now! Though it took us a while to get ramped up on there -- it only went live a few weeks ago. Also, AFAIK, we just got approved for Audible. So that was a bit of a clumsy rollout. Overall we sold maybe 10-15% on 3rd party platforms compared to direct from the publisher.