[Leica] re: armed america pre-orders and in other countries

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Kyle,
Mine is pre ordered at Amazon, which is pretty much a worldwide site today.
A lot will sell because of a ghoulish fascination with one of the illogical
aspects of American culture - not having grown up is such a culture, I found
your photographs frightening, the counterpoint between a multitude of
weapons and normal looking human beings.
Cheers
Jayanand

On 6/5/07, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> There's someone at my publishers who knows how many amazon has sold in
> pre-orders but I was suprised to find out that number is confidential --
> they can't tell me. They do say things like "amazon is really excited
> about it" and amazon will be publishing some of my travel diaries as
> extra content to showcase it. But as for numbers, I don't exactly know.
> I've watched it move up and down the sales ranks -- which I'm guessing
> means that there was some movement -- it went up as high as #1,500 a few
> weeks ago but is in the 8,000's right now.
>
> As for other countries, I can only guess based on web hits.
> www.armedamerica.org is getting a huge number of hits from russia,
> france, netherlands, germany and japan. It was already featured on the
> front page of a Swedish newspaper, so people are looking.
>
> Happily it doesn't really seem to have hit in America yet. The official
> "in store" date is August first, so I'm hoping that nobody really
> discoveres it until that date.
>
> Thanks to everybody who's helped out with this.
>
> Kyle
>
>
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