{"id":606,"date":"2017-09-02T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=606"},"modified":"2017-11-01T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:41:01","slug":"book-news-four-figures-of-sales-blog-reviews-new-excerpt-on-hypebot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/02\/book-news-four-figures-of-sales-blog-reviews-new-excerpt-on-hypebot\/","title":{"rendered":"Book news: four figures of sales, blog reviews, new excerpt on Hypebot"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s some excerpts from chapter 12, &#8220;Why you can&#8217;t put the music industry on a blockchain,&#8221; edited together into an article and put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2017\/08\/why-you-cant-put-the-music-industry-on-a-blockchain-excerpt.html\">up on Hypebot<\/a>. (Please spread that link, Hypebot&#8217;s good.)\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Blog posts from pleased readers: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.koehntopp.info\/index.php\/2330-fertig-gelesen-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/\">Fertig gelesen: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/bitcoin\/@liquefy\/the-importance-of-the-critical-book-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\">The Importance of the Critical book<\/a> (by a cryptocurrency advocate); <a href=\"https:\/\/polizeros.com\/2017\/09\/01\/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-yes-its-a-bubble\/\">Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. Yes, it\u2019s a bubble<\/a>.\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Some time around 1 September, the book passed 1000 sales! About 150 paperback, the rest ebook. Not bad for a self-published book with not much promotion. I&#8217;ve tried promoting it to journalists and had very little response, so it&#8217;s back to word of mouth and writing sufficiently interesting blog posts. If you liked the book, please tell everyone you know!\n<p><\/p>\n<li>By the way, I take requests for blog posts. If there&#8217;s a topic you&#8217;d particularly like to see a post about, do feel free to leave a comment or email me at <a href=\"mailto:dgerard@gmail.com\">dgerard@gmail.com<\/a>. No promises, but I&#8217;ll see what I can do.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Edit:<\/b> For the curious, here&#8217;s my precise sales figures up to 14:32 UTC, Sunday 3 Sep 2017. I was seriously expecting maybe 100-200 when I started writing (October 2016), but I happened to catch a wave.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook\/dp\/B073CPP581?SubscriptionId=AKIAI53SB3VFQSPO5TZQ&#038;tag=50footblockch-20&#038;linkCode=alb&#038;camp=2025&#038;creative=165953&#038;creativeASIN=B073CPP581\">Amazon Kindle:<\/a> 889\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/739078\">Smashwords:<\/a> 25 (ePub)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.books2read.com\/u\/boYYpL\">Draft2Digital:<\/a> 21 (ePub)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts\/dp\/1974000060?SubscriptionId=AKIAI53SB3VFQSPO5TZQ&#038;tag=50footblockch-20&#038;linkCode=alb&#038;camp=2025&#038;creative=165953&#038;creativeASIN=1974000060\">CreateSpace<\/a>: 148 (paperback)\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would have made it Amazon-exclusive so I could get it onto Kindle Unlimited, but I posted more than 10% publicly. But Smashwords pleases the techy end of my audience who want ePubs.<\/p>\n<p>I spent months talking it up in venues that would appreciate it, and got about 200 Kindle preorders, which gave it a nice kickstart and got it on the first page of the relevant Kindle subsubcategories. The appreciative buyers have come to the party with Amazon reviews too.<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s been happening with <i>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/i>, and how you can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,41,51],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-hypebot","tag-self-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}