Category: Analysis

Weird World War III: Seventh Week Sales Report

A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)

In the first seven weeks since launch, BookScan reported a total of 270 Weird World War III US retail print sales.

Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of November 16th through November 22nd by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.

According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 20 copies last week, which is a decrease from the 26 copies sold in week six.

Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, with 18 ratings thus far.

Again, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.

Stay tuned for next week’s report. Onward!

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Weird World War III: Sixth Week Sales Report

A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)

In the first six weeks since launch, BookScan reported a total of 250 Weird World War III US retail print sales.

Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of November 9th through November 15th by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.

According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 26 copies last week, which is an increase over the 20 copies sold in week five. I attribute this increase to multiple media appearances this week plus the ripple effect of appearing on Coast to Coast AM, which has a 2.75 million-person weekly audience.

Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, even my first three-star rating–on my birthday.

Again, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.

Stay tuned for next week’s report. Onward!

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Weird World War III: Fifth Week Sales Report

A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)

In the first five weeks since launch, BookScan reported a total of 224 Weird World War III US retail print sales.

Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of November 2nd through November 8th by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.

According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 20 copies last week, which is more than the 18 sold in week four. I believe the entirety of this increase is due to my appearance on Coast to Coast AM this past Sunday morning. As I mentioned last week, Coast to Coast AM has a weekly audience of 2.75 million people.

Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, and all have still been four or five stars.

Again, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.

Stay tuned for next week’s report. Onward!

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Weird World War III: Fourth Week Sales Report

A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)

In the first four weeks, BookScan reported a total of 204 Weird World War III US retail print sales.

Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of October 26th through November 1st by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.

According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 18 copies last week, which is less than the 27 sold in the third week. At this point, the data is what it is. What will be interesting to see next week is whether there’s a sales spike from my upcoming appearance on Coast to Coast AM this Sunday morning, which has a weekly audience of 2.75 million people. The last time Weird World War III was presented to an audience remotely close to that size was when Sarah A. Hoyt promoted the book on Instapundit, which has ~1.8 million unique monthly–not weekly–visitors. And I definitely saw a huge spike that day. Hopefully, I’ll see something similar or better from my appearance on Coast to Coast AM.

Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, and all have still been four or five stars.

Again, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.

Stay tuned for next week’s report. Onward!

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Weird World War III: Third Week Sales Report

A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)

In the first two weeks, BookScan reported 110 Weird World War III US retail print sales in the first week and 49 in the second week. I suggested this report omitted key observable data such as 41 US retail print sales in the Philadelphia region. Based on this critical omission, I concluded that the book was likely doing better than BookScan’s data would suggest.

Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of October 19th through October 25th by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.

According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 27 copies last week, which is less than the 49 sold in the second week. However, the book’s Amazon rankings have stabilized to plus or minus 100,000 for both print and KDP sales. Also, the Philadelphia region’s print retail sales only increased by one book week-over-week, so Between Books‘ 41 sales still haven’t materialized. So again, the data is highly flawed. I’ll check in again next week, but my sense is I won’t have a clue how this book is doing until January, if and when returns come in.

Stay tuned!

On the plus side, Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, and all have been four or five stars, so at least there’s some forward momentum there.

Also, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.

Onward!

Order Weird World War III Now

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Indiebound
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