{"id":256916,"date":"2007-10-18T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/18\/when-a-publisher-talks-about-sales\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","slug":"when-a-publisher-talks-about-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/18\/when-a-publisher-talks-about-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Publisher Talks about Sales . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=467\">comment yesterday<\/a> that publishers love to exaggerate sales figures, comes this little nugget about Booker Prize winner Anne Enright:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The latest British figures from Nielsen BookScan show that, since it was published in May, only 3,306 copies have been sold in hardback, with a further 381 in paperback. Enright\u2019s publisher said that the actual figure was 35,000, including sales in Europe. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh. I know Nielsen BookScan is only 70% accurate, but this seems ridiculous. Maybe they did sell 30,000 copies through the Jonathan Cape website&#8212;who am I to say they&#8217;re exaggerating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to my comment yesterday that publishers love to exaggerate sales figures, comes this little nugget about Booker Prize winner Anne Enright: The latest British figures from Nielsen BookScan show that, since it was published in May, only 3,306 copies have been sold in hardback, with a further 381 in paperback. Enright\u2019s publisher said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[7176,1836],"class_list":["post-256916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-book-sales","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361636,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256916\/revisions\/361636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}