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Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Larry Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM
interest while waiting and those waits were much shorter. Also the last book was sorely dissappointing. I don't think I will be in a big rush to go out and buy it. I might be proven wrong if the reviews here are crazy wild about it. But other wise I may wait for a long time to buy it. He will lose the difference between the price of a hardback and a paperback.


It seems that once something gets a bit of visibility, delays often don't matter that much in sales and if there is any difference, it's usually an increase. After all, there have been tens of thousands of fans at the very least that have discovered this series in the past couple of years. They tend to more than make up for any "protest" no-buys. I suspect the print run for the upcoming book will top the quarter-million (or was it a half-million) that the last book had in 2005. After all, after a five year wait then, AFfC was the first #1 NYT Bestseller in the ASOIAF series.

Believe it or not, online communities tend to be outliers when it comes to predicting bookselling trends. It's been a sobering lesson over the past 9 years for me.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Tom - 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM 2182 Views
I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him. LiterateDog - 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM 1208 Views
I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom. everynametaken - 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM 1337 Views
I'm beginning to agree. Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM 1217 Views
I do like Neil Gaiman's writing, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 10:01:24 AM 524 Views
I can forgive you. *NM* Tom - 22/09/2010 02:08:46 PM 559 Views
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM 1141 Views
Far more people watched B&B than have read ASoIaF. Werthead - 23/09/2010 07:01:22 PM 1355 Views
good point *NM* aragornital - 22/09/2010 08:07:16 AM 628 Views
Wait a minute... Larry - 22/09/2010 11:33:37 PM 1260 Views
I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM 1134 Views
bahahahahahahahahaha temeraire - 22/09/2010 06:10:26 AM 1253 Views
I was in an odd mood last night Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:46 AM 1091 Views
Hahaha Darth_Katie - 22/09/2010 01:24:17 PM 1223 Views
I'm not sure I'd be dictating chapters from my deathbed Tom - 23/09/2010 03:35:43 AM 1103 Views
I was thinking the same things a couple days ago Fox and Ravens - 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM 1360 Views
I'm not sure Brandon Sanderson could finish the series, either. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:33:52 AM 1130 Views
Sadly, I would be satisfied with this. StormCrow - 23/09/2010 03:01:04 PM 1224 Views
If I was an author I wouldn't defend him. Tigr - 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM 1218 Views
I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were". Tom - 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM 1076 Views
If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. *NM* Tigr - 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM 561 Views
Martin is not the only one... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:16:51 AM 1188 Views
If he had only ever written stand-alone books... Gher - 22/09/2010 03:42:48 PM 1231 Views
There is more than an expectation. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:30:32 AM 1194 Views
I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM* Macharius - 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM 527 Views
Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM* Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM 521 Views
You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right? Larry - 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM 1246 Views
Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC Werthead - 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM 1225 Views
Close enough Larry - 22/09/2010 11:26:51 PM 1247 Views
There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM 1150 Views
I know - I was just thinking about wait times for stories Larry - 23/09/2010 03:40:09 AM 1086 Views
Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost Tashmere - 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM 1084 Views
Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Larry - 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM 1334 Views
Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Werthead - 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM 1228 Views
which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon? Aeryn - 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM 1150 Views
That's why I always do. Werthead - 25/09/2010 04:51:49 PM 1087 Views
Re: Mostly, because I don't buy from Amazon. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:09:03 AM 548 Views
I don't plan to read it. nossy - 26/09/2010 03:28:02 PM 1333 Views
As I said in a previous response... Larry - 26/09/2010 11:15:13 PM 1122 Views
I only recently started reading the books fistofpainx - 23/09/2010 04:17:14 AM 1160 Views
Re: I only recently started reading the books Fox and Ravens - 23/09/2010 03:36:17 PM 1124 Views
Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God? Tim - 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM 1191 Views
Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM 494 Views
I'm always amused by these threads. Variant - 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM 1171 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Fox and Ravens - 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM 1241 Views
Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book. Kotagg - 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM 1155 Views
I never said it was hypocritical, just saying it's amusing. *NM* Variant - 25/09/2010 11:06:42 AM 522 Views
So y'all just bitching? Variant - 25/09/2010 10:31:23 AM 1179 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Werthead - 25/09/2010 05:04:56 PM 1110 Views
Re: This is funny beyond the telling. Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:07:40 AM 1126 Views
Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Mossman - 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM 1072 Views
Here's the thing... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:23:14 AM 1495 Views
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