Comments on: Matt Hughes Book A Top Seller – More to Come?

By: cyphron

cyphron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:55:54 +0000

How about:

Tito Ortiz: My Life with Jenna: What the Hell Was I Thinking?

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By: mike wolfe

mike wolfe — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:47:43 +0000

Post no. 13 is the inspiration for the latest competition: Come up with the best title for Tito’s new book. My entry: “Tito Ortiz: I fought Chuck Liddell twice and all I got was this lousy book deal”

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By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:33:02 +0000

“They list how a book is selling against other books in that category during that hour of that day”

True but if a book is high on the NYT list you can expect the sites numbers to be high.

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By: Joe Nassise

Joe Nassise — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:33:24 +0000

And non fiction doesn’t sell a miniscule number of books compared to fiction – where are you getting your information, Grape Knee High?

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By: Joe Nassise

Joe Nassise — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:31:13 +0000

Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble sales ranks don’t tell you anything about how a book is selling over all. They list how a book is selling against other books in that category during that hour of that day. A long term listing in the lower numbers would show a book is selling well from that particular vendor but book can seem to be doing well from one vendor but actually tanking over all.

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By: cyphron

cyphron — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:29:37 +0000

I found out what the title for Tito’s new book is:

Tito Ortiz: I Can’t Hang With Top Competition but I Can Beat Ken Shamrock.

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By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:37:36 +0000

By the way…Tito has one coming out in May. Which is right around when his UFC current contract expires, I believe. It will be interesting what kind of blow torch he takes to Zuffa.

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By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:28:24 +0000

hah…no worries Mike

“you have to keep in mind that hardcover books generally sell much fewer copies than paperbacks overall, ”

Grape Knee High

Without question you are correct here. Relative sales of paper backs to Non Fiction are two completely ballparks. But no matter how you split it a MMA bio in the top 100 is simply amazing. If it had been a sub catagory like “non fiction – home improvement” (yes there is one out there) then indeed it can be compared to “the Special Olympics”.

But the blanket “non-fiction ” catagory…thats very impressive to me. If it had been by Lance Armstrong or Tom Brady then not so much I suppose…but back to my main point…this is a MMA book. Lets have a little gof clap for Matt.

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By: Mike MacLeod

Mike MacLeod — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:15:51 +0000

Hey guys. This article got published while I was still gathering information. Figures, seeing as this is my first article for Five Ounces.

I have confirmed that the NYT publishes their list two weeks after they collect the data and Hughes’ book is indeed #21 for nonfiction for the week ending January 12.

You can resume your argument about whether #21 can be considered successful.

Mike

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By: Grape Knee High

Grape Knee High — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:08:33 +0000

Evan, you have to keep in mind that hardcover books generally sell much fewer copies than paperbacks overall, with non-fiction generally selling a miniscule number of books compared to fiction. To be only #21 on the hardcover non-fiction list is not impressive.

Here’s a better snapshot of where his book really stands in terms of pure sales from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,935 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
Barnes and Noble Sales Rank: #4,843

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