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Over 100,000

May 21, 2005 02:59 PM

I'll just note briefly that today we went over 100,000 hits and are getting more than 5000 hits per day for the past week. This in a bit less than 2 months of operation.

I never dreamed this would happen. Then, again, I only wanted to get myself going on the book and really didn't try to form any expectations of readership for the blog. Kind of amazing though.

Thanks to Dave for the suggestion of in-progress publication of the book. I know that would speed it up a lot. I also have published enough books to know that I don't want to first do a proposal and then the book. The editors try to control your content; they would probably try to make Evolutionary Fitness into a diet book. I will look into putting the book up in draft, chapter by chapter as it progresses with something like an RSS feed. To do this, I would have to sell the book as a subscription where you get the ongoing document and its final version for a single payment.

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Comments

Posted by: Flower Online [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 4:40 AM

You are right about the tyranny of editors. They will rarely chance their arm with something genuinely different; they want evidence that anything new is a low-risk proposition. Loren Cordain's editors twisted his arm about The Paleo Diet and this twisted his message in the book. His three levels of the diet and the large number of recipes (both very un-Paleo!) were imposed on him by editors stuck in their unimaginative and uninformed groove. I have no problems with the publishing strategy you outline - I'll be in it! You might make it easy (see Dave Fobare's post a fortnight or so back) for subscribers to also make gift subscriptions for friends and family. I'd be in that, too.

Posted by: Keith Thomas at May 24, 2005 4:29 AM

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