It's been a month and a half since the book was released. Normally, by now, a new book should have already gone through four rounds of recommendations and be ready for shelving.
However, the theme of this book might be a bit too niche, so its performance hasn't been very good.
There are two paths to getting it shelved: meeting the required number of follow-up reads.
I can't disclose the specific numbers needed for follow-up reads, but overall, this book has only reached less than half.
So the first path is destined to be a dead end. We can only take the second path—getting shelved at 200,000 words.
To those urging for shelving in the comments section, here's the explanation. Even under the fastest circumstances, shelving wouldn't happen until early or mid-December.
For a new book, this progress and performance could be described as a catastrophic start.
However, I inexplicably feel a bit happy.
