I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today, August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it only represents a fraction of the total sales.

Andrei

Andrei, some spammer keeps removing the errata and putting spam links instead. I can roll back the changes, but he/she will in no doubt spam again.

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today, August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it only represents a fraction of the total sales.
> 
> Andrei

I've reverted the change, you can see the history and the previous change for the spam:

http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=55 http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=49

Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:

> Andrei, some spammer keeps removing the errata and putting spam links instead. I can roll back the changes, but he/she will in no doubt spam again.
> 
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> 
> > I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today, August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it only represents a fraction of the total sales.
> > 
> > Andrei
> 

On 8/27/10 12:35 PDT, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I've reverted the change, you can see the history and the previous change for the spam:
>
> http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=55
> http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=49
>
> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:

Thanks for the heads-up and fix, Andrej. For now I've disabled editing.

Andrei

auto newErrata = const(oldErrata);

Btw, glad the sales are up, the book is really enjoyable to read.

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 8/27/10 12:35 PDT, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > I've reverted the change, you can see the history and the previous change for the spam:
> >
> > http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=55 http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=49
> >
> > Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up and fix, Andrej. For now I've disabled editing.
> 
> Andrei

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:39:31 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today, August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it only represents a fraction of the total sales.

That's excellent news! Do you have any idea how sales compare to other non-mainstream PL books (say Real-World Haskell)?

Still have to pick up a copy. It seems that local bookstores have it in stock :).

-- Daniel

"Daniel de Kok" <me@danieldk.eu> wrote in message news:i5eemu$1dt$1@digitalmars.com...
>
> It seems that local bookstores have it in
> stock :).
>

Really? That surprises me. None of the ones around here have it. (But then again, I live near Cleveland and nearly everyone around here with any real technical talent leaves town as soon as they hit 18, so maybe that's why.)

On 08/29/2010 03:07 PM, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:39:31 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today,
>> August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded
>> those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it
>> only represents a fraction of the total sales.
>
> That's excellent news! Do you have any idea how sales compare to other
> non-mainstream PL books (say Real-World Haskell)?
>
> Still have to pick up a copy. It seems that local bookstores have it in
> stock :).
>
> -- Daniel

Hi Daniel!

I don't have solid comparison data. One indication is the Amazon sales rank (lower is better). At this moment TDPL has rank 86,607 and Real-World Haskell has rank 133,809.

Andrei

On 08/29/2010 03:51 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Daniel de Kok"<me@danieldk.eu>  wrote in message
> news:i5eemu$1dt$1@digitalmars.com...
>>
>> It seems that local bookstores have it in
>> stock :).
>>
>
> Really? That surprises me. None of the ones around here have it. (But then
> again, I live near Cleveland and nearly everyone around here with any real
> technical talent leaves town as soon as they hit 18, so maybe that's why.)

Couldn't find it at B&N in Houston either. I asked the clerk, he said they only have it on order.

Andrei

On 29/08/2010 23:29, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 08/29/2010 03:07 PM, Daniel de Kok wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:39:31 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I thought this might be of interest to the community - as of today,
>>> August sales of TDPL from erdani.com redirected to Amazon have exceeded
>>> those in July. The data is only indicative of a trend if anything, as it
>>> only represents a fraction of the total sales.
>>
>> That's excellent news! Do you have any idea how sales compare to other
>> non-mainstream PL books (say Real-World Haskell)?
>>
>> Still have to pick up a copy. It seems that local bookstores have it in
>> stock :).
>>
>> -- Daniel
>
> Hi Daniel!
>
> I don't have solid comparison data. One indication is the Amazon sales
> rank (lower is better). At this moment TDPL has rank 86,607 and
> Real-World Haskell has rank 133,809.
>
> Andrei

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #52,179 Aug/30