A person on Reddit who bought my book says she is about to start a series of threads devoted to discussing each of the book's chapters. This is both delightful and a bit scary as I have no idea what's going to come of such discussion. I think she plans to summarize each chapter and then discuss the topics brought up while eliciting Redditor reactions. I wrote a quick response to the poster saying, basically, that I will recuse myself from the discussion so that others may have the floor and speak freely about the book. It's a bit annoying that this poster basically plans to distribute the information in my book for free, but hey—right now, publicity is publicity, so I'll see how this goes.
NB: the r/Homeschool community has 124,000 members, but at any given time, I never see more than 20 online. I get the impression that it's a small village of well-intended people, all struggling to educate their kids. As subreddits go, this is probably one of the best places to be as long as no one talks about politics (and almost no one does).
Trivia: here's how Amazon is ranking my book:
#230,453 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)#80 in Homeschooling (Kindle Store)
#165 in Two-Hour Education & Reference Short Reads
#508 in Introductory & Beginning Programming
I honestly don't expect the Kindle Store ranking to go very high, but it's cool to see the book rising in the ranks in the Homeschooling category despite the relatively few sales. I wonder whom I'm competing against in Two-hour Education & Reference Short Reads and Introductory & Beginning Programming categories. I don't know how my book even got lumped in with those other categories, which seem only tangentially relevant. For me, Homeschooling is the label to watch, and I'll be watching.
ADDENDUM: well, the book just dropped to #99 in Homeschooling, indicating that this ranking is very volatile. I'll see whether a trend is visible over the coming weeks. Much depends on whether people continue to buy the book. And extra customer reviews and ratings would be nice: aid the algorithm and all that.
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