{"id":6043,"date":"2012-02-22T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T08:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/22\/dog-physics-more-popular-than\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T08:44:25","slug":"dog-physics-more-popular-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/22\/dog-physics-more-popular-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Physics: More Popular Than London Call Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent from the UK sends along this picture from the Waterstones outlet in Heathrow airport:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-3fbc92b059e0cf1dc6e9177501ee14ee-heathrow_rack.jpg\" alt=\"i-3fbc92b059e0cf1dc6e9177501ee14ee-heathrow_rack.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> is #55 on their bestseller rack, just ahead of <cite>Confessions of a London Call Girl<\/cite>. I&#8217;m not sure what this says about London call girls, but I&#8217;m pretty psyched that it&#8217;s still selling well over there.<\/p>\n<p>On this side of the Atlantic, I got a note from my editor at Scribner the other day that they&#8217;ve just printed another batch of the US paperback of <a href=\"http:\/\/dosphysics.com\/book_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, which is also good news. There&#8217;s probably a blog post in the future about the sales numbers for that, because Amazon now makes BookScan numbers available, while Simon &amp; Schuster make point-of-sale numbers available, giving me a nice way to test BookScan&#8217;s claim to capture 75% of all sales.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, you might&#8217;ve heard somewhere that <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> will be released soon&#8211; next Tuesday, to be precise (but who&#8217;s obsessively counting days to that, anyway?). They were selling it at the AAAS meeting last week, and I heard that a very well-known physicist picked one up, which is cool. I know how many they shipped to stores, both here and in the UK, which is fairly substantial, so it should really be available &#8220;wherever books are sold,&#8221; as the phrase goes. And there is an electronic edition, for those of you who snarkily disparage &#8220;legacy books,&#8221; also on sale next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of publicity, I&#8217;ve already linked most of the reviews. I&#8217;ll be doing a signing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendoor-bookstore.com\/event\/2012\/03\/10\/day\">the Open Door in Schenectady on the 10th of March<\/a>, and one at the B&amp;N in Vestal, NY (closest big store to where I grew up) on the 24th. And one of the local papers, the Troy Record, just ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/18\/news\/doc4f3e5bab58803117910759.txt\">five-question interview with me<\/a>, though some of the responses got a little garbled (I don&#8217;t have a thirteen-year-old, for example&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where things stand with the books. Which isn&#8217;t a bad place to be standing, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent from the UK sends along this picture from the Waterstones outlet in Heathrow airport: As you can see, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog is #55 on their bestseller rack, just ahead of Confessions of a London Call Girl. I&#8217;m not sure what this says about London call girls, but I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/22\/dog-physics-more-popular-than\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dog Physics: More Popular Than London Call Girls<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,143,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-sales","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","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=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}