Return of a Man Named PAMB and its Quotes

Richard Falk said:

This newbie is in for a rude awakening:

a PAMB newbie said:

This web site in Estonia has a number list for books in stock.
My book has been selling approx 200 every two to three days
Total so far is approx. 1,000 sales
just cut and paste your ISBN

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Unless he has a very large and rich extended family, his book won't sell 200 copies in its lifetime, let alone every two to three days.

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I'm failing to imagine exactly how badly this is going to play out when this author gets their royalty statement. Think PA will blame it on the Elbonians Estonians?

This web site in Estonia has a number list for books in stock.
My book has been selling approx 200 every two to three days
Total so far is approx. 1,000 sales
just cut and paste your ISBN

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If this person actually sells 100 books a day through one Estonian website, PA had better get him the f up in lights...

Richard Falk said:

This newbie is in for a rude awakening:



Unless he has a very large and rich extended family, his book won't sell 200 copies in its lifetime, let alone every two to three days.

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He's not new, his book came out in 09, so I don't know why he is suddenly posting all of these web sites and sounding all excited about it all. Humm, makes me wonder if PA pay authors do get "happy" every once in a while
I also wonder whom at PA translated his books to Chinese etc, ha.
I doubt that 2 years later he believes his book is selling 200 copies a day but the other writers will.

My updated book, **** is still not on Amazon. It has appeared on bn.com. I don't understand why not.
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This writer posted in Nov that her book was missing in action from Amazon and seems it still is.

TheTinCat said:

If this person actually sells 100 books a day through one Estonian website, PA had better get him the f up in lights...

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Another member of the PAMB pointed out that the "in stock" number is the number off titles in stock in that particular genre. I clicked through and sure enough, that seems to be the case. So it really has nothing to do with the number of books sold, but the variety of titles they have in stock.

JulieB said:

Another member of the PAMB pointed out that the "in stock" number is the number off titles in stock in that particular genre. I clicked through and sure enough, that seems to be the case. So it really has nothing to do with the number of books sold, but the variety of titles they have in stock.

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Yeah, I figured as much. It would be entirely amazing for a PA author to have sales like that.

TheTinCat said:

Yeah, I figured as much. It would be entirely amazing for a PA author to have sales like that.

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Other, alas, than to himself or herself.

--Ken

The PA author may be mistaking website hits as sales.
If the website has numerous listings in addition to the author's book, well...

If the writer had read further on this Estonia companies site he would see in the "about us" section that they only order books. They don't stock them. When they claim they have every book ever printed they mean they LIST every book ever printed (or at least still in print) mine are listed, hell EVERY book is.
They claim when a customer orders a book it will take 4 to 6 weeks to bring the book in from what ever Country it is published and that the clients credit will not be charged till the book lands in their office, prior to their shipping it to the client.
So, they are an Estonian Amazon I guess

I'm still curious as to why, after almost 2 years, he hasn't been disillusioned by no royalties and why suddenly this burst of WOW look at all the places my book is mentioned!!!
Very odd.

Reality check needed. A PA author has Googled his title and found this:

51 pages on google
so cool

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. . . and concludes this:

my book has 2,228 copies available
so cool
http://www.spotcost.com/prices/9781615462667/

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However, the title Atlanta Nights on Spotcost shows a lot more copies of Atlanta Nights "available" than the PA book: http://www.spotcost.com/prices/9781411622982/

PVish said:

Reality check needed. A PA author has Googled his title and found this:

. . . and concludes this:

However, the title Atlanta Nights on Spotcost shows a lot more copies of Atlanta Nights available than the PA book: http://www.spotcost.com/prices/9781411622982/

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More than half the first page of Google results go to link-spam file-sharing sites, too.

The site shows all those copies available at half.com. Click through and half.com shows seven.

PVish said:

Reality check needed. A PA author has Googled his title and found this:

. . . and concludes this:

However, the title Atlanta Nights on Spotcost shows a lot more copies of Atlanta Nights "available" than the PA book: http://www.spotcost.com/prices/9781411622982/

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He's also pretty excited, in his sig, about his one dollar check.

Maybe they're grateful PA isn't charging them more.

But how many more will be introduced into the fix? Can PA be trusted at all not to cause more?

DaveKuzminski said:

But how many more will be introduced into the fix? Can PA be trusted at all not to cause more?

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Answer within the question there

DaveKuzminski said:

But how many more will be introduced into the fix? Can PA be trusted at all not to cause more?

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Probably rubbing their hands in glee right now. "Put more errors in! More! And charge extra for each error that must be corrected!"

So sad.

Ouch, $199 is more than I expected

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Well sure, but that's only because you're a normal, rational human being used to dealing with honest and service minded companies.

As I've said before, it's just SO much bloody money! It would make me do a double take to find out that a POD publisher printing from computer files charged the author $5 to correct errors in contracted manuscript, but charging $200? I truly can't understand how any of the authors can look at that number and believe that the "offer" is anything but greed.

Some one purchase over 4,000 copies of
my book and put them on ebay
Thank you


OK, this guy just doesn't stop and again I ask, what the heck is up with this 2 year old PA writer? He can't be suddenly excited by all this google info on a book title!!!!!

That guy has got to be kidding. I'm sorry, but who could seriously believe that someone would buy up four thousand copies of a book to sell on eBay? Unless that book was the as-yet-officially-unreleased prequel to the Harry Potter series or something similar.

well, my two cents worth, I think he is a plant. Someone that is working or has gotten money to promote their wonderful company. I wouldn't put it pass the three stooges. Nor do I believe this person honestly thinks what he is writing is actually truth.

But I'm a very not so nice about the three stooges and tell everyone I come in contact with that is remotely thinking about trying to sell a book to not use them and to tell others the same.