“The 2018 books were well received last year, selling out almost the entire 4000 sets we printed (though there are still some 300+ copies in Australia, available on Amazon there)”—I’m curious why you ordered so many for Australia as that seems much larger than the community here. Are you being charged for the continued storage of these books?
The reason why we ordered so many books there is because we didn’t really think about how small Australia is, and had to make the decision on a somewhat short deadline with a bunch of other stuff happening at the same time. I think if we had thought about it for longer, we wouldn’t have made that mistake.
The ‘Less Wrong Melbourne’ facebook group has 563 members—I have no idea how many are currently active, nor what proportion of the LW readership joins facebook groups (I for one am not a member of the group or even a facebook user, I just googled it out of curiosity), but it seems like a decent number, perhaps enough to make selling a few hundred books to Australians a reasonable expectation.
Maybe joining the Sydney Meetup group is a stronger signal? That’s at 459 members, and presumably those are people who care enough to seriously consider attending in-person events. Which would be a pretty small fraction of total readers located in the area.
“The 2018 books were well received last year, selling out almost the entire 4000 sets we printed (though there are still some 300+ copies in Australia, available on Amazon there)”—I’m curious why you ordered so many for Australia as that seems much larger than the community here. Are you being charged for the continued storage of these books?
The reason why we ordered so many books there is because we didn’t really think about how small Australia is, and had to make the decision on a somewhat short deadline with a bunch of other stuff happening at the same time. I think if we had thought about it for longer, we wouldn’t have made that mistake.
The ‘Less Wrong Melbourne’ facebook group has 563 members—I have no idea how many are currently active, nor what proportion of the LW readership joins facebook groups (I for one am not a member of the group or even a facebook user, I just googled it out of curiosity), but it seems like a decent number, perhaps enough to make selling a few hundred books to Australians a reasonable expectation.
Facebook group membership is an extremely weak commitment
Maybe joining the Sydney Meetup group is a stronger signal? That’s at 459 members, and presumably those are people who care enough to seriously consider attending in-person events. Which would be a pretty small fraction of total readers located in the area.