January 14th, 2010 / 5:21 pm
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Small Press Distribution 2009 best seller fiction list released. Why not use this as a reading list for 2010?

20 Comments

  1. Rachel

      Anyone know how many copies gets you on a list like this?

  2. Rachel

      Anyone know how many copies gets you on a list like this?

  3. Lincoln

      that and also what kind of press do you have to be to get on there? Cause most of the more famous small/indie presses aren’t on there.

  4. Lincoln

      that and also what kind of press do you have to be to get on there? Cause most of the more famous small/indie presses aren’t on there.

  5. mark

      these guys are all distributed by spd. others indie presses are distributed by consortium, random house, etc.

  6. mark

      these guys are all distributed by spd. others indie presses are distributed by consortium, random house, etc.

  7. Lily

      i was talking jeremy d. about this yesterday. we joked that it takes selling 10 copies. maybe 12. but really, i’ve got no clue.

  8. Lily

      i was talking jeremy d. about this yesterday. we joked that it takes selling 10 copies. maybe 12. but really, i’ve got no clue.

  9. Sean

      I doubt it takes too many, since the list is for that one site, right? Wasn’t the print run for first ed Light Boxes, 200-300? So.

  10. Sean

      I doubt it takes too many, since the list is for that one site, right? Wasn’t the print run for first ed Light Boxes, 200-300? So.

  11. David E

      Yikes re no. 50! Reminded me of that horribly hilarious movie (sans the s in title). I’ll never forget that one scene, which I saw years before I’d ever heard the name Lorena Bobbitt.

  12. David E

      Yikes re no. 50! Reminded me of that horribly hilarious movie (sans the s in title). I’ll never forget that one scene, which I saw years before I’d ever heard the name Lorena Bobbitt.

  13. Lily

      500-600, i think.

  14. Lily

      500-600, i think.

  15. Lily

      i have from a fairly reliable source that SPD only got ~70 copies of Light Boxes.

  16. Lily

      i have from a fairly reliable source that SPD only got ~70 copies of Light Boxes.

  17. Richard

      Wow, fantastic list, great to see so many familiar names on here.

  18. Richard

      Wow, fantastic list, great to see so many familiar names on here.

  19. Derek White

      In case people are still curious, i have a few Calamari titles on this list, by rough count I sent about 300-350 copies of Motorman (#3) in 2009 and about 200-250 copies of Stories in the Worst Way (#7). And SPD is my only distributor. So that’s what it takes, for what it’s worth.

      What I’d be curious though is how the “poetry” list (which they do separate) compares to this.

  20. Derek White

      In case people are still curious, i have a few Calamari titles on this list, by rough count I sent about 300-350 copies of Motorman (#3) in 2009 and about 200-250 copies of Stories in the Worst Way (#7). And SPD is my only distributor. So that’s what it takes, for what it’s worth.

      What I’d be curious though is how the “poetry” list (which they do separate) compares to this.