Actually, this conversation happened on Twitter Thursday night, but here you go:
Looking at numbers, B&N has sold 1/3 as many copies as Amazon. That’s way better than B&N usually does.
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
Most weeks, Amazon gets more sales than B&N gets clicks.
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
@byharryconnolly There's increasing public dissatisfaction with Amazon's practices.
— Murray Sheckmas (@SheckyX) December 19, 2014
@SheckyX I guess so. I’m surprised to hear that it would have a noticeable affect on sales, though. #cynical #becauseold
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
@byharryconnolly Public awareness in the age of social media is really becoming a significant influence.
— Murray Sheckmas (@SheckyX) December 19, 2014
More “numbers”: On a normal day, most of the traffic to my site comes from Twitter. I’ll be on here all day, RT’s awful(ly great) jokes, and
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
Twitter will perch at the top of my Referrers list like the little bird that it is. BUT! If one person drops a link on reddit, #whoosh.
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
There’s a link in Reddit Fantasy that points to today’s blog post. Two of the four comments are about how much I suck. And yet, bit traffic.
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
Of course I meant “on Reddit” and “big traffic” but by that point I’d had more than two beers.
@byharryconnolly The comment "Connolly's "20 Palaces" series was the best modern fantasy I've read. Ever." doesn't hurt. :-)
— Rodney Ramsey (@RodneyRamsey) December 19, 2014
.@RodneyRamsey Compliments are invisible to authors, Rod.
— Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly) December 19, 2014
Last I looked, there was a fifth, complimentary comment on that thread (which I’m not linking to, because I’m not trying to drive readers there).
Re: sales, Amazon has continued to sell about the same, but B&N sales have dropped off sharply since that first day. And this conversation is all about ebooks. Print sales don’t come into it.
Mirrored from Harry Connolly. You can comment here but not there.
