Submission + - Web campaign makes Amazon bestseller for one day (machineofdeath.net)
kingturkey writes: Inspired by a Dinosaur Comic several years ago about a machine that could tell you how you were going to die, a collection of webcomics people created an anthology of short stories based on the concept. The stories were taken from hundreds submitted from around the world, but include "the likes of Randall Munroe and Yahtzee Croshaw and tons more great writers and also [Ryan North], with illustrations by people like Kate Beaton and KC Green and so many more."
They wrote on the book's blog, "what we’ve learned is that it only takes a few hundred sales on a single day to become an Amazon.com bestseller. We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller for exactly one day — October 26."
And they did it! It reached #1 in the Bestsellers in Books list (and is still there at the time of writing), and achieved a 685,800% increase according to Amazon's Movers & Shakers list.
They wrote on the book's blog, "what we’ve learned is that it only takes a few hundred sales on a single day to become an Amazon.com bestseller. We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller for exactly one day — October 26."
And they did it! It reached #1 in the Bestsellers in Books list (and is still there at the time of writing), and achieved a 685,800% increase according to Amazon's Movers & Shakers list.
