We're on Amazon. People are Ordering!
Raanan Avidar over at Murphy's Law left a comment this morning and it was the first I knew that you could pre-order Naked Conversations on Amazon.com. What a thrill. We haven't finished ARs (Author Revisions) yet, and their is no jacket design, but
And people are ordering, I understand.Amazon already ranks us at 934, 760, so we have some room for improvement I guess. But nevertheless what a thrill. Robert and will both autograph the first 100 copies of the book as I said previously, but we still need to work out the logistics on that one.If you are interested in pre-ordering, please wait a day or so while Robert and I figure out how to make this site an Amazon affilliate. We make out a little better that way.
Now a correction--and a bunch of thanks.
Pete Dawson, sorry you were not the first. Jeremy Wright ordered three books before you did and I flaked on it because I was still finishing up the final chapter. And Jeremy is also going to be first with a book. His Blog Marketing can also be pre-ordered at Amazon and is available in October. Both Pete and Jeremy are Canadians and they are our first two customers. Let's hear for hands accross that Northern border. Mike Saint, a personal friend of 35 years--we were both reporters at the Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger is our first American customer and he's buying 20 copies. Let's hear it for American-sized volume purchases. So we are on the way.
Oh what a beautiful morning.
I guess the popularity of your new book has taken out Amazon. It's responding "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" right now :)
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | August 16, 2005 at 08:24 AM
Any news on your book signing tour? When is the Dallas stop? :-)
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product!
Posted by: Walter Lounsbery | August 16, 2005 at 08:49 AM
Shel, I've been watching, and I've seen your book as high as 250,000. I think you've got the URL for my book wrong, as it's choking out in your post (appreciate the link btw!).
Posted by: Jeremy Wright | August 16, 2005 at 09:57 AM
Heh. And Jeremy thought I had just screwed up the link to his book. It must be that Amazon can't scale to the amzing sales demand our two books are generating.
Posted by: shel Israel | August 16, 2005 at 10:15 AM
Pre-ordered! Can't wait to get a hold of the book. :-)
Posted by: Josh Bancroft | August 16, 2005 at 11:03 AM
Just checked Amazon, "Naked Conversations" hit 31,000!! You broke six digits -- which seems pretty awesome this far out. Congratulations! And when you get to four digits, your publisher starts to smile. If you STAY in the four digits, you all make money. I have no doubt that's where you're headed (I'm guessing you'll spend some time in single-digits before this is over), although the most dramatic spikes don't usually come until the book starts shipping.
Let your Amazon ranking addiction begin. : )
Posted by: Kathy Sierra | August 16, 2005 at 02:01 PM
Kathy,
Since 5:30 this morning, we've gone up over 900,000 places. How can this be? We don't even have a jacket design yet. I just don't know what to say.
Posted by: shel Israel | August 16, 2005 at 02:14 PM
Shel: Lots of folk are pre-ordering. Your book (and likely thanks to this post, mine as well). Congrats on getting under 25,000!
Posted by: Jeremy Wright | August 16, 2005 at 03:22 PM
Hecka good response !! I'll wait for afflilation to take place on the site before I pre-order.
Hey Jermey next time in TO, the beers on you !!
First to placeorder eh !!!
Posted by: /pd | August 16, 2005 at 03:57 PM
You're climbing the long tail. The first 900,000 is pretty flat :)
Posted by: Nick Davis | August 16, 2005 at 09:08 PM
Just ordered my copy. :-)
Posted by: Michael Arrington | August 16, 2005 at 09:55 PM
Just put up a podcast with Shel on PodTech.net
Great stuff.
Posted by: John Furrier | August 17, 2005 at 07:09 AM
John / Shel: Great interview, just finishing it up now :)
Posted by: Jeremy Wright | August 17, 2005 at 07:32 AM
Uh, you guys better get this book done. Here's your ranking this morning:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,674 in Books
Congrats! I've learned so much from you.
- Mikek
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Posted by: Mike K | August 17, 2005 at 07:32 AM
My God.
Posted by: shel Israel | August 17, 2005 at 07:53 AM
congrats !!!
Posted by: Loïc | August 17, 2005 at 01:52 PM
Congrats! Must feel good!
Posted by: Steve Shu | August 17, 2005 at 02:31 PM
Way to go!
Posted by: Netanel Jacobsson | August 17, 2005 at 11:13 PM
Congratulations, will certainly be buying a copy of the book. Suggest you put the Amazon and Google ads at the top right of your blog. You'll get a lot more click throughs that way. Alternatively you can place the ads directly in this blog post.
Posted by: Richard Byrom | August 22, 2005 at 02:12 PM