On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:28:28PM -0400, John Adams wrote: > I watch the O'Reilly Top 25 Bestsellers list fairly carefully, and have > been somewhat disturbed to see that Learning Perl Objects, References > and Modules barely hit the list for a week or two, then dropped off. > That surprised me--I assumed there were a fairly large number of Perl > users at exactly the right intermediate level for that book to be of > interest to them. > > So why didn't that book sell better?
That's a concern for the publisher (and the authors), not for Perl. For example, we don't know if the book is missing or meeting sales goals, which is a *much* more important question to be asking. It very well could be that this book is exceeding sales projections yet not finding a place on the top 25 because the other bestsellers are so damn strong. Presence or absence on the O'Reilly bestsellers list doesn't mean much as a single datapoint. Z.
