I want to see sales figures for BEST SELLERS
If Blurb is going to announce BEST SELLERS then they should make public how many copies have been sold. I would like to know how many copies of most of the books listed on here have sold, so I would have an idea of what to expect when my book is finaly up for sale
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I absolutely agree with you, and hope that’s a feature they add soon!
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I’m not so sure, I lean towards thinking that the number of books I sell should be strictly beteen me, Blurb (and the taxman?) unless I give Blurb permission to make that public. ......Tony
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Well Tony, look at it this way, if the figures are high on your book then others might buy it just because others have thats the psychology . The box office figures for films are announced each week which promotes interest in the films. Yet another alternative is hopefully your books will NOT become besellers thereby maintaining your privacy! :) If it stays a mystery the tendency for people thinking about using blurb is "do people REALLY buy these books?" The thread where people volunteer sales figures is helpful.
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I would think, in my humble opinion, is totally not necessary. But there is awesome feature is included “Best Sellers” book in bookstore as a cue or hint.
On a final note, I would think it might be burden on side of Blurb’s backend coding to shows the realtime sale figures in public. I would think that best leave to Bookmakers’ private account activity that shows weekly sales report or something like that.
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I still want to push for people to list the most books sold by a blurb user. I have people telling me on other lists that you cannot sell books successfully on blurb. They say you have to jump through the hoops, go through LST which is a POD printer that has links to distributors, this means you have to be expert at using indesign layout which is a very high learning curve and you will have to come up with several thousands of dollars to pay designers let alone all the other fews to distributors and publicists.
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Really, who cares what people on other lists think? Blurb is not trying to be Barnes and Noble or Waldenbooks or Amazon.com. They’re in the business of making it easy for users to self-publish. If users are interested in massive public sales, then they need to market their book to a publisher that also does distribution and assigns ISBN codes, etc. Using Blurb is a very good way to publish a short run printing of a book with a targeted market. So far, I’ve published 17 books with copy sales of 232. That works for me. I, in no way, shape or form expect that I am going to sell any of my books to casual perusers of the Blurb bookstore. That’s not my market.
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