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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually no, John Scalzi is the author that I was referring to. He's one of the few authors who will publicly break out his sales figures. He mentioned that the Data Guy was off by orders of magnitude in one of his blog post. He compared his actual sales figures with what was estimated and he sold almost twice as much.
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That's a little contradictory. An "order of magnitude" is a factor of ten. Selling "almost twice as much" is not a difference that is "orders of magnitude".