#1 bestseller (sort of)

[julesjones]

It won't last very long, but right now The Syndicate is #1 on Amazon UK's bestseller lists for gay fiction and gay erotica...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/275854/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last

I need to learn how to make a jpeg of that so I can post the evidence for after it's dropped out (which will probably take all of two hours).

ETA: the_magician has done me one in the comments. :-)

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Fucking heck, did you check the 'used and new' listings?

You've made it. Any book that doesn't start at three cents (I always feel sorry for those writers, even though I tend to buy them - and yes, I know the vendors make money on the shipping and handling side) but at a respectable £5,68 must be good. Cast your eyes to the high price.

Used - Very good: £52.46

*Someone* thinks you're worth it.

[julesjones]

That's just some scraperbot that posts high prices on relatively scarce books in the hope that someone will be stupid enough to bite. They don't even have a copy in stock, usually.

But the starting price on the used copies, when they're genuinely available, is pretty pleasing. It's partly a function of it being a small press book and thus not many copies out there to begin with, but given that the book is readily available new it suggests that there's a definite "will pay more than peanuts" second-hand market. Though the US used price has dropped quite a bit in the last couple of months, as more copies come onto the market.