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There's Scalzi's real motivation for writing the piece. Dude's gamma to the core and obsessed with metrics, so he just had to talk about himself and how he was being underreported. Then he goes on to say [not quoted] how Milo is probably lying because x, y, z and thus Scalzi is a better seller than him. In fake magnanimity, he then says how nice it is that Milo is a genuine bestseller, and that's something to be proud of.
He's a fucking tool. I am ashamed I recommended his books years back in the SciFi-Fantasy thread.
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Or is it? Because here’s the thing about Bookscan — it doesn’t in fact track all sales of a book. It doesn’t track eBook sales, for example, nor does it track audiobook sales. Nor does it track sales from some small independent booksellers, who might have not signed up to be Bookscan-reporting retailers. As a result, depending on how much you sell in other formats, and where you sell your books, Bookscan can massively underreport your total sales.
I know this because that’s what Bookscan does with me. A couple of years ago I tracked the sales of the hardcover era of Lock In (which is to say, all the sales reported while the physical book was only available in hardcover). For the time it was in hardcover, Bookscan reported 11,175 hardcover sales in the US. However, overall the book sold about 22,500 copies in hardcover and about 87,500 copies across all formats (hardcover, ebook, audio).
In all, Bookscan recorded roughly 12.7% of my total sales. Which is not a lot! If Yiannopoulos were seeing a similar sort of ratio, based on his physical copy sales, he could indeed have sold something on the order of 100,000 copies of his book in the first week. He might not be lying.
There's Scalzi's real motivation for writing the piece. Dude's gamma to the core and obsessed with metrics, so he just had to talk about himself and how he was being underreported. Then he goes on to say [not quoted] how Milo is probably lying because x, y, z and thus Scalzi is a better seller than him. In fake magnanimity, he then says how nice it is that Milo is a genuine bestseller, and that's something to be proud of.
He's a fucking tool. I am ashamed I recommended his books years back in the SciFi-Fantasy thread.