Friday, February 08, 2008

I Am Never Happy

On the one hand, in the new job, I have access to Bookscan, so I can get a (somewhat inaccurate) idea of what any book is selling in the US. But it's only updated once a week!

At the old shop, we had no Bookscan -- only our proprietary, in-house numbers. But we sold directly, so those numbers were our real sales figures, and they were updated at least daily. (Some books would have noticeable sales from the beginning to the end of lunch.) I really miss that, when I keep wondering how Extraordinary Circumstances is selling right now. But I won't know how it's selling now until next Wednesday -- is that any way to run a railroad?

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