[Wilshire]

Thats what I was thinking. One of those links claimed that 50 sales got them into the top 100. Most of his TSA books have sold 10's of thousands, so the slow trickle is not an issue. But we will need 25-100 people all to buy it within the same hour in order to raise Bakker from obscurity. After that, the book will remain on the charts due to its own merits

[Madness]

Now that would cause me undo amounts of laughter. If all it took was the minimal spike strike...

[Wilshire]

I mean if 75% of our current sites registered users participated, we would be there already.

[Madness]

Sssh... revelations should come of their own accord.

[larrytheimp]

Sounds kind of like 'gaming' the system... so count me in.

[Madness]

Lol - Welcome to the Second Apocalypse, lti .

This is neat. Now I'm doubly excited for TUC's release. Organizing things is fun.

[Madness]

Madness,  in relation to the "spike" for TUC on amazon - my practice is to buy the kindle edition asap upon release which means generally from amazon.co.uk rather than from amazon.com - books are mostly released earlier in the UK than in America.  Even when the release date is the same, amazon.co.uk typically releases the book at midnight GMT whereas the US release is at least 4.5 hours behind. However not everyone can buy with equal ease from the UK and US sites. I should also add that UK prices are slightly higher (which I swallow to get the book earlier) even when converted to dollars.

The bottom line is you should have separate strategies for US and UK websites.

[Triskele]

Sounds kind of like 'gaming' the system... so count me in.

Agreed. 

Normally I wouldn't be too keen on something like this, but given that I would murder the very world to hold The Unholy Consult in my hands right this moment, I can stomach this. 

[Aural]

Are there any official sales figures for the previous books? Or any good estimates?

I saw a 200,000 figure on the Westeros, but that was more or less a wild guess tbh.

[Madness]

I assume you're getting that from The SFF All-Time Sales List, Nskoghar?

Later in that thread, Jussi (I think) linked Bakker's About page on TPB where he mentions that his books have been translated into more than a dozen languages (and I believe I heard seventeen from him once) and sold a "hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide."

[Litgreg]

Wow, this thread really blew up. I check in on message boards only infrequently, so I apologize for missing out on the initial discussion. I initially had the thought because I've noticed that a lot of groups of authors/fans will organize a "book bomb"  (this, basically) the day a new release is out. It's done mostly for newer authors as a means of increasing exposure to a wider audience. Not sure how effective it is, but it's fun to watch other writers I know wax ecstatic when their book hits some new ranking milestone. Scott obviously has a very solid fan-base already, so it's not quite the same thing. Still, more exposure never hurts! Also, cribbing from an earlier comment:

"This is neat. Now I'm doubly excited for TUC's release. Organizing things is fun."

Yep, if nothing else this is fun and adds some savor to the wait.

[Madness]

"This is neat. Now I'm doubly excited for TUC's release. Organizing things is fun."

Yep, if nothing else this is fun and adds some savor to the wait.

Yay, TSA Book Bomb! The Noviratic Spike !

I think at this point, Litgreg, we're just hoping that we can just leverage Bakker down the Amazon Sales Rank and have the normal flow of purchases by his fans keep it there... possibly organize some secondary spikes but the normal rate of purchases should do that job for us.

Lol - Welcome to the Second Apocalypse, by the way. Don't worry about being here constantly but do come when you can .

[Wilshire]

Regarding sales figures, we've discussed this here on the forum (briefly):

Wow really? That is very surprising, but he's down there at 95th,which is a "conservative estimate". I'd have never guessed.

Here is the link for those interested:
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-new-and-improved-sff-all-time-sales.html

Though it would seem the list was updated since I posed that. Bakker is down at 205th place.

[locke]

I'm planning on buying a kindle edition of Judging Eye sometime soon.  if we could get a small group together, we could test the concept and see what impact a half dozen or dozen concentrated sales would have.

[Garet Jax]

I'm planning on buying a kindle edition of Judging Eye sometime soon.  if we could get a small group together, we could test the concept and see what impact a half dozen or dozen concentrated sales would have.

Locke, let me know when you are planning to buy.  I am buying a copy of TJE soon as well, I am going to surprise my brother with the AE books to date.