{"id":49,"date":"2006-06-02T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T21:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/?p=49"},"modified":"2006-06-02T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T21:42:03","slug":"why-writers-never-reveal-how-many-books-their-buddies-have-sold-by-daniel-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Why writers never reveal how many books their buddies have sold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2142810\/fr\/nl\/\">By Daniel Gross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve long wondered why the Bookscan numbers have not achieved the same marketing currency as the music industry&#8217;s Soundscan numbers, the best selling debuts of which are announced each week. Maybe because most books don&#8217;t jump off the shelf the first week of sale, the way records do. And that&#8217;s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Gross We&#8217;ve long wondered why the Bookscan numbers have not achieved the same marketing currency as the music industry&#8217;s Soundscan numbers, the best selling debuts of which are announced each week. Maybe because most books don&#8217;t jump off the shelf the first week of sale, the way records do. And that&#8217;s not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}