Up to a sale every 2 days at Amazon

Surprisingly, considering my feeling of limited popularity, I've met my mid-year goal for selling a book every two days!

Yay!

My author page and books can be viewed at: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Yay!

I'm in the top 4% at Academia.Edu! See PAGE here.

Feeling more prestigious now! Not everyone Ivy gets to that level, in my presumptuous opinion!


Update: Oct. 2014 down to Top 5%

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.

Recent comment from my stepfather

"Thank you for being patient with me. You know me, I'm not too good with philosophy"

Given the history I have with him, if you understand the context, this is high praise.

We were discussing the use of opposites in my method of categorical deduction.

I have updated two of my books recently...

Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory now has a section at the end on flummoxes: machines that appear to work, and then appear not to work. It's a kind of arcane classification for good writing on perpetual motion.

The Book of Uniques has also been updated. Several new images and uniques entries have been added, for those that have considered buying that book, it is now 72 pages long, instead of 68 (or whatever it was).

PMM D&T is now a more satisfying 100 pages.

Some of my Books

are now featured at http://www.coverscroll.com

Including the Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit (2013, 2014)

And Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory (2014).