More from the (book-style) market and other such.

[kinzel]

If...
you've been following along at home you may recall that yesterday our hero reported that Crystal Dragon
was selling pretty well at amazon:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #429 in Books
#19 in SF & F
#9 in Science Fiction

This morning....
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #529 in Books
#21 in SF & F
#10 in Science Fiction

What's interesting to me is that dropping a hundred general "rating points"
only dropped the SF ranking by 1... so reports from friends that they'd seen Crystal Dragon at #7 in
SF or at number 10 in SF&F are probably accurate... go team! I do wonder...

A very sad thing (in my biased eyes) is that if whoever runs the info to the database got their act in gear, Crystal Dragon would be sitting #1 in the "series" ranking right now. We could really use "an amazon.com #1 series!" on an ad or two, eh? Anyone know how to talk amazon into making that connection -- or is this something the distributor or publisher needs to do, weeks ago?

Otherwise, we had an impromptu Friends of Liad meeting in Friends of Liad Park over at Second Life... three of us sat around chatting and listening to the wind chime and then later there was a side trip to Second Childhood Carousel... really, if you have some time to play, come on it to Second Life, join the Friends of Liad and maybe the ElseCon group...and have a blast.

In the meantime, our news is that the Meisha Merlin-DHL link is still... a SNAFU. No sign of DHL here in the hinterlands. Books sit aging in their boxes, waiting...waiting. The cats roam among the towers, or perch on top watching the bird videos....

Comments

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

I pre-ordered the book from Amazon back on November 4th. In theory it was supposed to have shipped and arrived already. Two queries to Amazon have resulted in continual insistence that they're backordered and are awaiting shipments from their supplier.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

We... are hearing from people who've gotten their amazon-ordered books; we expect to hear more today. Maybe it depends on which warehouse they mail it from?

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

My Amazon-ordered book says it should arrive on May 3rd. And has been pretty adamant about that date.

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that -- it's not tangled up with anohter book shipment is it? As fare as we know all the books have been shipped from the printer to the distributors; once amazon has it I can't understand why there'd be a delay. Alas, I'm not sure I really understand the industry at all....

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

No idea. May just be a large backlog of orders.

I'll just have to savor the anticipation.

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I see amazon now says "ships within 24 hours"...

Hmmmm

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

And my order HAD NOT updated the ship time. I had to cancel the book and then re-add it to move up the ship date.

Stupid Amazon.

Doc

It might be there?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Not having dug around much in the rankings, I thought I would take a look at them. When I click on "see top sellers in books" then narrow down through Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction, one of the headings is series. I don't see Crystal Dragon in a cursory scan of the General list - maybe duologies aren't considered a series? But there's Dragonwings by McCaffrey, which is clearly something like the Liaden Universe?

Hum - take a sharp left one step up and look at Authors, under the "L"s Crystal Dragon is #1.

Oho. And down at the bottom of the Crystal Dragon page, it invites me to start a discussion? Customer Discussion beta? So along with plogs, we now get discussions?

Crystal Dragon

[(Anonymous)]

Crystal Dragon arrived Monday 3/20 from Amazon. Surprising and enjoyable so far- the hard part is NOT taking a day off to finish the book
Becky Hinshaw