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Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More

My First Million

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Does Being on the Best Solo List Help You Sell More Books?

If you sell 20,000 copies of a book through one bookstore, they would find that to be suspicious or unrepresentative and there's a chance it could get tossed. Wall Street Journal or book scan just flat out told me they just don't include sales from stores owned by the author anymore. I care a lot less about sort of the status or the recognition of sales. And I care more about did I sell as many copies as possible to as many people as possible? The whole point of writing a book is for people to read it.

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