Found the highest Amazon rank I've attained so far...

June 13, 2014 I was 39,950 th in text book sales on Amazon.

That's about a 400th of the Top 100 Authors.

My amazon page may be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Buying gift cards with the intend of buying Nathan Coppedge books is a good idea, because I produce books every year on interesting subjects (there are already over 70 titles to choose from!)

Almost 1 sale every 2 days at my publisher this month.

In spite of a few bad reviews, my sales have not decreased very dramatically.

Still hopes for a sale a day come the holidays!

Doing almost that well right now in e-book sales (but not at the beginning of the month).

Hopes for improvements!...

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Here is a link to my Amazon profile: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Nathan Coppedge's Advice on Writing

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https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150713160751AAGlD1K

Improved Author Rank

I'm in the top 100,000 authors again on Amazon.

Unless I sell books tomorrow, it will gone by tomorrow.

Today I sold two. But one was an e-book.

I was experiencing dry spells for several weeks.

At least I sold one Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory in a bookstore (actually, it may have been a non-Amazon website). Three others were online.

Kindle edition of the PMM D&T has a bestseller rank for now:

• • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,790 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
    • #95 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Reference > Patents & Inventions
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Link to my author page here: Nathan Coppedge's Amazon Author Page. Normally you can find that link near the top on the left of the blog.

How to Write Aphorisms by Nathan Coppedge

is now available in a 'E-TEXTBOOK' edition.
Update: Scientific Papers is also available in that form.

I don't know for sure, but perhaps I can expect big things on the horizon.

I have not been informed of this new edition in any of my e-mails with my publisher.

Perhaps they are playing semantics? But why would they take a risk on a book that has only sold nine copies, unless they have made a calculated decision?

I'm theorizing that this means that Barnes & Noble will be ordering more copies soon. So far they only order every two months, and the volumes have been in the single digits (actually single digits is almost an exaggeration. As I said earlier, I have only sold about 4 copies in bookstores, including three different titles. But, incidentally How to Write Aphorisms is the title that has sold the most copies in bookstores so far).

Nonetheless, big news seems like the kind of thing to find on my plate just about now.

I can always laugh and say nothing feels quite like perpetual motion!

Even that is mechanics, not euphoria, so it all kind of melts into the dust until I find empirical evidence in front of my eyes.

Book Sales

4 sales through expanded distribution (book stores), via my CreateSpace account.

According to this data, bookstores have sold:

2 Copies of How to Write Aphorisms,
1 Copy of Nathan Coppedge's Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory, and
1 Copy of 1-Page-Classics.

Overall, including online sales and e-books, the following books are the most popular:

1. The Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit (22 copies sold)
2. Nathan Coppedge's Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory (20 copies sold).
3. How to Write Aphorisms (9 copies sold)

Even if these sales look disappointing, I'm doing at least 550% better than last year, so that's a good sign. At this rate, it might count as a career in four years ($87,500 / yr. at that point), assuming a 5X exponential curve.

However, for now, it's only about $140 / year reliably, thanks to my excellent publisher it's not even less.

You have to take into account that I've published 32 books, most of them this year, so:

A. There's a big popularity cushion, assuming people don't think I'm just braining myself.
B. I'm at the very minimum of potential exposure right now.

So, I don't want to call the four years to that much money conservative, but it does seem achievable in ideal conditions, by my estimates.

Meanwhile I may have proven over-unity! But that's another issue. 'Another issue' seems so cruel this way!

For those looking for my Amazon Profile, it can be found there. My e-books are now listed as $0 - $2.99 instead of the previous $4.99 ridiculousness. I have also updated several of my books (actually many of them) with new content.

Author Status Update

Book sale status.

Book of Paradoxes is #81 for Philosophy / Reference on Amazon (text version!)

The DPT is #45 for Philosophy / Reference (on Kindle).

I have a number of other books, such as Modal Dimensionism, and Secret Principles of Immortality, that are in the top million on Kindle.

Hooray for progress! Hooray for being noticed!

More book sales, finally.

People shouldn't be superstitious about April. It will be a holy month if perpetual motion is invented.

A copy of the PMM D&T, and a copy of the Tractatus of Dualities were sold.

I worry that the people waiting for the entire encyclopedia to be published may be in trouble because of a marketing snafu. The first two volumes are currently available, although the second volume, on psychology, won't feature reviews on the back cover for another 8 weeks or so.

Recent sales reports indicate...

8 sales of the Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit in Nov. - March without bookstore presence.

4 sales of the Perpetual Motion Machine Designs and Theory in Jan. - March without bookstore presence.

2 sales of Masterful Zen and Sufi Koans Jan- March without bookstore presence.

1 sale of How to Write Aphorisms in Febr. - Mar. without bookstore presence.

This might not include some outside channels such as academic libraries or alternate distributors.

For example, I was surprised to find that the DPT made six sales in the fourth quarter last year, which included two hard copies that I didn't know about.

This quarter isn't over, and sales have been increasing.