Gordon’s book is out and it’s selling very well. It was 127th best-selling book on the whole of Amazon a couple of days ago. It’s hovering around the 300ish point which, when you consider how many thousands of books Amazon sells is pretty good.

To put it in context, the latest Harry Potter is only the 700th best-selling book. Amazon is already showing Gordon’s as running very low in stock, while there are loads of the Harry Potters on the shelves. One listing says it’s got ‘limited availability’ and the other says the delivery time is 3 to 5 weeks. That probably explains why the sales rank has dropped by a couple of hundred.

I’m not surprised it’s selling out, though. I got a review copy from the publisher and it’s fab. As soon as it came into the office everyone pounced on it, and it’s already gone off around the rest of the floor for everyone else to look at.

I’ve forbidden them all from turning over the corners.

Gordon was thinking about this book when we were presenting The Lab together, and although he hadn’t pitched it back then, he certainly outlined the idea to me, so I’m going to use him as a shameless namedrop hook, and point everyone in the direction of www.digitalretro.co.uk

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