Sales figures to date

American Colossus: the Grain Elevator 1843 to 1943 was published in February 2009. Over the course of the last four years, it has sold a total of 208 copies. That's approximately five copies per month! We are pleased.

Many thanks to all the people who bought a copy.

Sales figures to date

American Colossus: the Grain Elevator 1843 to 1943 was published in February 2009. Over the course of the last two years, it has sold a total of 140 copies: 21 through Lulu.com (the book's printer); 52 through Amazon.com; and 67 through Colossal Books. That's just almost six copies per month! We are pleased.

Sales to date

Since its publication in March 2009, American Colossus has sold 129 copies:

67 through the book's publisher, Colossal Books;
41 through the on-line store Amazon.com; and
21 through Lulu.com, the printer used by Colossal.

Curious email from Lulu

Just got a curious email from www.lulu.com, which is the company through which I self-published American Colossus.

You recently published American Colossus: The Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943 and made it available to the world in the Lulu Marketplace. Thank you. We're thrilled to have such a remarkable work in our catalog!

Unfortunately, the world didn't get to see it as quickly as they should have. A hiccup in our system kept your book from showing up in search results immediately after you published. 

The short of it is the gremlins got us. Fortunately, we found them - big, hairy devils with beady red eyes and the complexion of toad - and dispensed with them. (We'll spare you the details). Our systems are back to the Lulu standard and all books in our catalog now appear in our search results.

They go on to offer me a discount on my next purchase(s) of the book. Funny thing, though: I didn't really notice any problems that needed to be corrected. The book's sales aren't setting any records -- 103 copies sold so far -- but I'm not complaining. We'll see what happens now.

One hundred copies sold so far

Since its publication in March 2009, American Colossus: the Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943 (Colossal Books) has sold 100 copies: 20 through www.lulu.com, 25 through www.amazon.com, and 55 through www.american-colossus.com.

Sales March 2009 to March 2010

This blog debuted exactly one year ago today to publicize the existence of American Colossus: the Grain Elevator 1843 to 1943, the first book-length history of the American grain elevator. To date, the book has sold 77 copies: 18 copies through www.lulu.com, 21 copies through www.amazon.com, and 38 through Colossal Books, which published the title and will be offering a second, expanded edition of the book later this year.