Me too! I was waiting for the wisdom about the factors or characteristics that determine how a book sells, and then the numbers: this cozy mystery will do about 7,000, for example. How many copies will a book sell.
The answer might be classified, but I'm so curious to know how you project a book's sales. Or, at the very least, how much you vary those projections from book to book and why.
It is mainly based on how similar books have done historically, which is why comps are so important in publishing, and a fact I've come around to very reluctantly.
Me too! I was waiting for the wisdom about the factors or characteristics that determine how a book sells, and then the numbers: this cozy mystery will do about 7,000, for example. How many copies will a book sell.
The answer might be classified, but I'm so curious to know how you project a book's sales. Or, at the very least, how much you vary those projections from book to book and why.
It is mainly based on how similar books have done historically, which is why comps are so important in publishing, and a fact I've come around to very reluctantly.