Humble Bundle, Day 2

Well, this continues fascinating...

Link: http://www.humblebundle.com/

Pass it along! It's a good deal, and it only lasts 13 more days.

It isn't quite 24,000 downloads in 24 hours, but an optimistic sort of rounding squint puts it in that ballpark. Which is more books than I've ever sold in a day in my life, even if one is statistically meticulous and divides it by 6, assuming that 5 out of 6 people bought the bundle for some of its other cool content. (But we like these people, because they may get around to looking over Shards of Honor in some later, idle moment, and create a chance to hook a whole new reader, entirely outside of my prior charmed circle.)

To put it in perspective, one of my friends, calculating Tolkien's sales over a half century, found: "the estimated cumulative sale is now c.150 million copies [which] means that over the next 48 years it has averaged sales of more than 3 million copies per annum -- or c.8,500 per day."

Somehow, I don't think we're going to have Tolkien's legs, but the pop is still great fun while it lasts.

And the SFWA medical fund is a charity I feel quite strongly about, as I can still remember a bit too vividly what it was like to be a struggling writer, strapped and without health insurance. Yeah.

May the Fourth be with you...

Ta, L.