{"id":4370,"date":"2009-12-28T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/28\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-7\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:20:48","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/28\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" alt=\"i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" \/>Various and sundry updates regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, now available wherever books are sold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, ok, that last sentence is a slight exaggeration. I spent a little while punching ZIP codes of places I&#8217;ve lived into the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&#038;itm=1&#038;z=y&#038;EAN=9781416572282\">Barnes and Noble<\/a> page, and couldn&#8217;t find any stores that have copies in stock. Grumble, mutter, grump. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\/online\/store\/TitleDetail?type=0&#038;catalogId=10001&#038;simple=1&#038;defaultSearchView=List&#038;keyword=orzel&#038;LogData=[search%3A+39%2Cparse%3A+46]&#038;searchData={productId%3Anull%2Csku%3Anull%2Ctype%3A0%2Csort%3Anull%2CcurrPage%3A1%2CresultsPerPage%3A25%2CsimpleSearch%3Atrue%2Cnavigation%3A0%2CmoreValue%3Anull%2CcoverView%3Afalse%2Curl%3Arpp%3D25%26view%3D2%26all_search%3Dorzel%26type%3D0%26nav%3D0%26simple%3Dtrue%2Cterms%3A{all_search%3Dorzel}}&#038;storeId=13551&#038;sku=1416572287&#038;ddkey=http:SearchResults\">Borders<\/a> on the other hand, has sporadic availability. At least one copy has been sold in-store at the Clifton Park Borders, because a friend bought one there last week (the web page now lists it as &#8220;Out of Stock&#8221; for that store, so maybe they only had the one&#8230;). If you&#8217;re in New England, and want to buy a copy at a big-box store, Borders is your best bet.<\/li>\n<li>Last week, the book spent a solid 77 hours in the top 1000 at Amazon, which was pretty amazing. It&#8217;s now slide back into the 2500-3000 range, which is still pretty darn good, but a bit of a let-down after seeing it peak at 396. Then again, it&#8217;s hardly unreasonable for the sales to drop over the weekend including Christmas, when I didn&#8217;t even post stuff on the blog urging people to buy it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/pet_gallery.html\">pet gallery<\/a> with two firsts in one: our first cat picture, and out first pet pictured with the Kindle edition. I&#8217;ve also updated the Reviews page with pull quotes from last week&#8217;s reviews.<\/li>\n<li>One of the problems with releasing a book three days before Christmas is that it doesn&#8217;t make a great deal of sense to do major publicity efforts right when it comes out. As a result, while I know there are some things in the pipeline (I&#8217;ve got a couple of interview-type activities scheduled in the next week or two), I don&#8217;t expect much of it to hit before January. I will attempt to retain my Zen calm during this period, but if I seem ultra-fidgety, that&#8217;s why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s where things stand as of 9am Monday morning. There will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/dog_physics\/\">sales rank tracker<\/a> number-crunching post about an hour from now, if you like hard-core geekery, and I&#8217;ll try to get some actual physics up later. We&#8217;re having guests this afternoon, though&#8211; our Senior Middle East Correspondent is in the States&#8211; so I may be slow to respond to emails or comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various and sundry updates regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, now available wherever books are sold: Well, ok, that last sentence is a slight exaggeration. I spent a little while punching ZIP codes of places I&#8217;ve lived into the Barnes and Noble page, and couldn&#8217;t find any stores that have copies in stock.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/28\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,51,37,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}