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Old 01-29-2018, 05:27 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Scalzi was specifically references the differences in the hardback sales verses the estimate. His comments about the various streams (paper, ebook and audiobook) are also important, but from a different set of blog posts.

Fine, if you want to say that Bookstat is more accurate than Bookscan, what were the differences in estimate between Bookstat and Bookscan for Scalzi's book? Scalzi references that screen scraping from Amazon isn't particularly accurate in other blog posts.
I'm confused...does Dataguy mention Scalzi's books explicitly? If not, how in the world does ONE data point have anything to do with a statistical analysis of the entire publishing industry?

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