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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: A Review Is In
Posted by Chad Orzel on April 9, 2012 I’m trying not to be Neurotic Author Guy and obsessively check online reviews of How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog every fifteen minutes. I’ve actually been pretty successful at it, so successful that I didn’t notice the first posted review at Amazon until my parents mentioned it to me. It’s a really good one,…
Are Books and Kindles Correlated?
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 19, 2012 I’m trying not to obsessively check and re-check the Dog Physics Sales Rank Tracker, with limited success. One thing that jumped out at me from the recent data, though, is the big gap between the book and Kindle rankings over the weekend. The book sales rank dropped (indicating increased sales, probably a result of the…
How Good Is BookScan Anyway?
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 29, 2012 One of the big stories in genre Internet news was Seanan McGuire’s post last week, about reactions to the early release of some copies of her book, and the hateful garbage thrown her way by people outraged that the ebook didn’t slip out early as well. And let me state right up front that the…
Dog Physics: More Popular Than London Call Girls
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 22, 2012 A correspondent from the UK sends along this picture from the Waterstones outlet in Heathrow airport: As you can see, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog is #55 on their bestseller rack, just ahead of Confessions of a London Call Girl. I’m not sure what this says about London call girls, but I’m…
How Many Books Is That?: Modeling Amazon Sales Rank
Posted by Chad Orzel on April 22, 2011 A few months ago– just before the paperback release of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog– Amazon started providing not only their Sales Rank data, but also sales data from Nielsen BookScan. Of course, the BookScan data is very limited, giving you only four weeks, and the Sales Rank data, while available over the…
This One Goes to 11
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 9, 2011 A reader from the UK, James Cownie, was kind enough to send this picture of the “New and Bestselling” shelf at a WH Smiths ” at one of the service stations on the M20.” You might not recognize the cover immediately, but in the #11 spot on that list is occupied by How to Teach…
Benford’s Law of Amazon Rankings
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 31, 2010 Late last year, Matthew Beckler was nice enough to make a sales rank tracker for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. Changes in the Amazon page format made it stop working a while ago, though, and now Amazon reports roughly equivalent data via its AuthorCentral feature, with the added bonus of BookScan sales figures.…
…As Long As They Spell Your Name Right
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 15, 2010 As previously noted, the UK edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is selling very well via the Guardian‘s online bookshop, among other UK venues. It’s doing well enough that I might need to start referring to the original text as the American edition of How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog……
Eat My Dust, Darwin!
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 9, 2010 How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, the UK edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog continues to sell very well. The vanity search today led me to this, screen captured from the Guardian newspaper in the UK, which sells our book in its online bookshop: Woo! Take that, biology! Yeah, yeah,…
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Posted by Chad Orzel on November 9, 2010 I haven’t been doing these as regularly as I was earlier in the year, but here are a few interesting bits of news about How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: LA FISICA SPIEGATA AL MIO CANE, is now available. That’s the Italian edition, which Google translates to something like “Explaining Physics to My Dog.”…
