{"id":21,"date":"2023-07-03T06:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2023-07-03T06:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:18:04","slug":"sneaky-twerp-is-also-pesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/sneaky-twerp-is-also-pesky\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Twerp is also pesky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was amused to see recently that Journal of a Sneaky Twerp<\/a> rose once again to the number one spot in its category on Amazon UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Journal<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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That being said, the category is almost comically specific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teen & Young Adult Humor Nonfiction eBooks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teen & Young Adult Humor About Farts With Hirsute Protagonists Nonfiction But Also Possibly Fiction Because Amazon’s AI Gets Confused By The Term “Journal” eBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it’s beating out some pretty famous competitors: Terry Pratchett, Judy Bloom, Louis Sachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the sales performance in the UK since its publication on May 4, 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sneaky<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The green line is price, the blue, sales rank, so the closer to 0 the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I rich from all these sales?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardly. This nets me about 80 bucks a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how many Wimpy Kid<\/em> fanatics are hate-reading it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judging from the review summary, we can say with some precision, 34%:<\/p>\n\n\n

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For good measure, here’s the sales history of the ebook on Amazon US:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I was amused to see recently that Journal of a Sneaky Twerp rose once again to the number one spot in its category on Amazon UK: That being said, the category is almost comically specific. Teen & Young Adult Humor Nonfiction eBooks? Teen & Young Adult Humor About Farts With Hirsute Protagonists Nonfiction But Also … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}