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 ‘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.