Sean @ PagAnarchy

I've had a few sleepless nights this year, largely inspired by the excitement of having my book released, but also doing loads of geeky things such as clearing out DBs, upgrading servers and wiping drives.

One of the funny things going on now is the vast number of online booksellers claiming to sell Liber Malorum when it's blatantly impossible because they haven't got any! When I started PagAnarchy Press, I ordered 1000 prints of the book, 920 of which are yet to be distributed as I've still got them with me!

I think Nielsen Bookdata has something to do with it. As the ISBN propagates through the Bookdata network, retailers must automatically draw down that information and pass it on to their customers in order to make sales. I even saw one site advertising the book at a discount rate. Presumably they're gonna be asking me for that same discount? Who knows?

Another thing I notice is that some of the sites trying to sell Liber Malorum include Amazon in the UK, Germany, Japan and Canada, but strangely, the book hasn't yet appeared on the US site, amazon.com

A lot of people out there are writing and asking me where they can get the book - thanks for the encouragement! I'll let you know which retailers take it on as soon as I know.

And I've just decided I'm gonna start a new category on this blog about the book industry. [TaDa - here it is!] As I learn more about it, I'm sure that info will be useful to others out there.

xxx Sean