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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Redshirts sales (June 5th, 2012 to Jan. 14th, 2013 the period that Redshirt was in hard back)
Hardcover - 26,604
eBook - 35,667
audio book - 17,008
Lock in sales (Hardback period, i.e. an apple to apple comparison, August 10, 2015)
Hardcover - 22,500
eBook - 24,000
Audiobook - 41,000
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This comparison does not work. Lock In has much broader appeal than many of Scalzi's previous novels. There are many people that read it having never read Scalzi before. Redshirts is targeting the demographic of hard core Trekkers that appreciate the send up of the red shirt trope enough to read a whole novel on it.
And yes it is anecdotal evidence, you need a large selection of books across every genre and not two dissimilar books by the same author.