book

[MRE]

Paperback version of "Arduino Projects to Save..." is currently ranked
#238,235 out of over 8,000,000 books.

Kindle version of "Arduino Projects to Save..." is currently ranked
#250,462 out of over one million books in the Kindle Store.

[Benjamin Davis]

So does that mean you've sold...18 copies? :D

(No seriously, how are sales doing?  200k out of 8M sounds pretty good, but there's still a lot of room for publishing industry facerape.)

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[MRE]

Hard to know copies sold.
Takes a while for anyone to come up with that info.
Publishers no longer print. The distributors do all that now.

[Torsten Wagner]

Hey MRE,
nice... this comes close to stocks now? Every morning waking up and
checking the amazon ranking first ;)
Could we extrapolate on this by buying ten books and see how the rank
climbs up? ;)
If the book would be in Japanese I could think to get it as some sort
of course material.
Being in teaching you know that it makes not much sens to get English
books to my students.
If it comes to Top-hundred I want a signed copy please!


Totti

[Taylan Ayken]

Yep, gave it to a Japanese friend who needed help. The book is collecting dust in his bookshelf in the lab. :)

Totti, tough luck! I already have my signed copy of MREs book. Also a signed Fredboard. Now I just have to wait for these guys to die so that I can put these on eBay and get rich. :P

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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [THS:18614] Re: book

Hey MRE,
nice... this comes close to stocks now? Every morning waking up and
checking the amazon ranking first ;)
Could we extrapolate on this by buying ten books and see how the rank
climbs up? ;)
If the book would be in Japanese I could think to get it as some sort
of course material.
Being in teaching you know that it makes not much sens to get English
books to my students.
If it comes to Top-hundred I want a signed copy please!


Totti



On 25 June 2012 09:05, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hard to know copies sold.
> Takes a while for anyone to come up with that info.
> Publishers no longer print. The distributors do all that now.
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[lauren shannon]

emery, good point. Could you get your publisher to allow for a JP
version and we could publish it with Cindy Mullins Company here in
Japan under an THS imprint?
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[Torsten Wagner]

How did you make them to sign it.
All I got was Freakboards with very annoying ultrabright blue LEDs...
did you hear that Akiba.... ANNOYING BLUE LEDS!! ;)
Well to wait until they die is not enough. You need to make sure they
go with a big bang...
For that, don't worry about Akiba, he will manage this on this own...
but I guess you have to push MRE a bit to make his final move more
spectacular.... Being the first astronaut of a community based
space-mission might be a good start ;)

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[Akiba]

It's just a minor difference in description. You say "ultrabright LED", I
say "free, ambient, mood light". It's a feature :)

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[Taylan Ayken]

Well, the thing is if it was a little brighter, you had to kit them up with safety glasses and fill the package with warning brochures and stickers. :)

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[Akiba]

In that case, the Fredboard would be usable for both electronics and optics experiments. Even better!

 

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[MRE]

Yeeeeah.. I dont think our signatures are going to be worth anything.

And your friend.... LAME. ;)

[MRE]

I could likely sway them to allow that.. but we would need a good
translator.

I am not sure they would be willing to pay for that.. honestly, dont
know how it would all work out. I could ask though.

On Jun 25, 4:45 pm, lauren shannon <lauren.shan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> emery, good point. Could you get your publisher to allow for a JP
> version and we could publish it with Cindy Mullins Company here in
> Japan under an THS imprint?
> Lauren
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Torsten Wagner
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey MRE,
> > nice... this comes close to stocks now? Every morning waking up and
> > checking the amazon ranking first ;)
> > Could we extrapolate on this by buying ten books and see how the rank
> > climbs up? ;)
> > If the book would be in Japanese I could think to get it as some sort
> > of course material.
> > Being in teaching you know that it makes not much sens to get English
> > books to my students.
> > If it comes to Top-hundred I want a signed copy please!
>
> > Totti
>

> > On 25 June 2012 09:05, MRE <epreme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hard to know copies sold.
> >> Takes a while for anyone to come up with that info.
> >> Publishers no longer print. The distributors do all that now.
>
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[MRE]

Howd you know I wanted to be an astronaut..


although most likely I will go out by some form of electric shock.

On Jun 25, 5:58 pm, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How did you make them to sign it.
> All I got was Freakboards with very annoying ultrabright blue LEDs...
> did you hear that Akiba.... ANNOYING BLUE LEDS!! ;)
> Well to wait until they die is not enough. You need to make sure they
> go with a big bang...
> For that, don't worry about Akiba, he will manage this on this own...
> but I guess you have to push MRE a bit to make his final move more
> spectacular.... Being the first astronaut of a community based
> space-mission might be a good start ;)
>
> Totti
>

> On 25 June 2012 16:42, Taylan Ayken <taylan_ay...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Yep, gave it to a Japanese friend who needed help. The book is collecting
> > dust in his bookshelf in the lab. :)
>
> > Totti, tough luck! I already have my signed copy of MREs book. Also a signed
> > Fredboard. Now I just have to wait for these guys to die so that I can put
> > these on eBay and get rich. :P
>
> > ________________________________

> > From: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com>

> > To: tokyohac...@googlegroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 3:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [THS:18614] Re: book
>
> > Hey MRE,
> > nice... this comes close to stocks now? Every morning waking up and
> > checking the amazon ranking first ;)
> > Could we extrapolate on this by buying ten books and see how the rank
> > climbs up? ;)
> > If the book would be in Japanese I could think to get it as some sort
> > of course material.
> > Being in teaching you know that it makes not much sens to get English
> > books to my students.
> > If it comes to Top-hundred I want a signed copy please!
>
> > Totti
>

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:11 PM, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howd you know I wanted to be an astronaut..
>
>
> although most likely I will go out by some form of electric shock.
>

Let me know when you are ready, mate.

I have a nice 2160V/0.3A transformer (busted a microwave oven) and
gathered 4 5 different CCFL HVPSes to experiment with ;-)

On another hand, if we manage to get a big enough cap, charge it up
enough and work carelessly, someone may end up in LEO (Low Earth
Orbit)...

LoL!
Kalin.

[Taylan Ayken]

Corner shop in Akihabara has some bad ass caps if you want to get them :)

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To: tokyohac...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [THS:18648] Re: book

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[belxjander]

That sounds positively roastingly painful both going up AND coming
down... I don't know how long the unlucky soul for such a trip would
survive past 20,000 feet though... would it be from being cooked or
frozen that finally gets them first ???

definitely one hell of a blast either way...

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Taylan Ayken <taylan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Corner shop in Akihabara has some bad ass caps if you want to get them :)
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.k...@gmail.com>
> To: tokyohac...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [THS:18648] Re: book
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:11 PM, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Howd you know I wanted to be an astronaut..
>>
>>
>> although most likely I will go out by some form of electric shock.
>>
> Let me know when you are ready, mate.
>
> I have a nice 2160V/0.3A transformer (busted a microwave oven) and
> gathered 4 5 different CCFL HVPSes to experiment with ;-)
>
> On another hand, if we manage to get a big enough cap, charge it up
> enough and work carelessly, someone may end up in LEO (Low Earth
> Orbit)...
>
> LoL!
> Kalin.
>
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[Chris Shannon]

but you could do one hell of a FALCON PUNCH coming down....

c

[MRE]

PARTS of someone

[MRE]

As JAM has pointed out several times..
Wrap me in a block of ICE, and I will remain at zero degrees, rather
than - numbers.

On Jun 26, 5:24 pm, belxjander <belxjan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds positively roastingly painful both going up AND coming
> down... I don't know how long the unlucky soul for such a trip would
> survive past 20,000 feet though... would it be from being cooked or
> frozen that finally gets them first ???
>
> definitely one hell of a blast either way...
>

ups.google.com/group/tokyohackerspace?hl=en.

[MRE]

I'll FALCON PUNCH you.. in the taint.

On Jun 26, 5:26 pm, Chris Shannon <cshan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> but you could do one hell of a FALCON PUNCH coming down....
>
> c
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, belxjander <belxjan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds positively roastingly painful both going up AND coming
> > down... I don't know how long the unlucky soul for such a trip would
> > survive past 20,000 feet though... would it be from being cooked or
> > frozen that finally gets them first ???
>
> > definitely one hell of a blast either way...
>

> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Taylan Ayken <taylan_ay...@yahoo.com>

> > wrote:
> > > Corner shop in Akihabara has some bad ass caps if you want to get them :)
>
> > > ________________________________

> > > From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.ka...@gmail.com>

> > > To: tokyohac...@googlegroups.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:16 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [THS:18648] Re: book
>

[Torsten Wagner]

All this remind me on some technology development at the end of WWII. Check out this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349

There is video material too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdRzCTOBSNE

around 6:30 there is a somewhat reconstructed video. The poor "voluntary" test pilot was killed instantly on this first and only manned flight...
The whole story sound totally insane from todays view and if you ever come to Munich go to the German Museum of technology and see a replica of a Natter... a big wooden totem pole paired with an early prototype version of a rocket engine and some hundred litres of highly explosive rocket fuel.

Totti

[MRE]

A bit of data coming in from Amazon...
I average about 15-20 copies sold per month in the USA. This is via
Amazon, but they track three or four major retail store fronts as well
(Barns and Nobel, etc).

That's not a whopping number. Especially considering good Arduino
books can sell pretty well.
But this is the paperback numbers. Still no numbers on kindle other
than overall ranking.

However, three things to note:

1: It is a somewhat entry level book. The trend currently is for deep
level catchall references, or lots of projects.
2: My book is somewhat of a niche. It focuses on low level data
collection. The scientific instruments detailed in it are acceptable
but not of particularly high quality/well engineered measurement
devices. It is "citizen science" rather than "big science".
3: I have done little if any promotion. The nice point here is that
modern publishing and distribution channels have virtually no
dependency on print runs. So, the book could be "in print"
indefinitely. So long as the publisher deems it worthy of keeping on
their roster. A strong PR campaign can boost sales.

How this plays out to cash in pocket...

A couple hundred dollars every few months.
But hey.. the work was done long ago now.. so.. in my mind, its free
money. :)

Now to start cranking out book 2....