Please Proceed, Governor
Jul. 9th, 2015 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribSome people feel compelled to slow down and gawk at car accidents on the highway. I feel compelled to point out stupidity on the Internet.
We are told that the Sad Puppy-related boycott of Tor Books has had a "six figure impact" on Tor sales. Tor is a unit of Macmillan, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, a German conglomerate. Per the later's web page, Macmillan's revenue last year was 721 million Euros. As of this writing, that's 793 million dollars.
Six figures is a rounding error to Macmillan. Somehow I doubt the good folks at Macmillan are spending a lot of time on this.
(Feel free to confirm all of the above via your favorite search engine. I've got bigger fish to fry.)
ETA 7/11/15: from Jason Sanford absolutely no detectable effect on Tor sales.
We are told that the Sad Puppy-related boycott of Tor Books has had a "six figure impact" on Tor sales. Tor is a unit of Macmillan, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, a German conglomerate. Per the later's web page, Macmillan's revenue last year was 721 million Euros. As of this writing, that's 793 million dollars.
Six figures is a rounding error to Macmillan. Somehow I doubt the good folks at Macmillan are spending a lot of time on this.
(Feel free to confirm all of the above via your favorite search engine. I've got bigger fish to fry.)
ETA 7/11/15: from Jason Sanford absolutely no detectable effect on Tor sales.
