From: Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Dec 05 1998 - 14:53:56 MST
---Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> At 11:09 AM 12/5/98 +1100, PW wrote in response to my comment on THE
SPIKE
> that:
>
> >>I doubt that it sold as many as 5000 copies.
> >>Still, that's pro rata equal to what, 45,000 in the States?
>
> >I think you are being a little modest. I thought it got quite a bit
of air
> >time when it was released
>
> True enough. I was surprised by the radio time I managed to get.
>
> I probably underestimated my conversion factor, above. If US pop is
to Oz
> as say ~15:1, then I guess I sold equiv of 70-75,000 copies. I was
taking
> into account some windage; we're said to buy more books than Yanks,
and
> there might be a higher proportion of people who can (a) read and
(b) read
> English.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
Yeah, but we got more guns! :) Specially ones that shoot more than
once between reloads... Huh huh huh.
==
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Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan
The Millennium Bookshelf: <http://www.donaghe.com/mbookshelf.htm>
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