From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Dec 05 1998 - 05:30:28 MST
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
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