Guillebeau: The $100 Startup sold well over 300,000 copies
Chris Guillebeau · The Art of a Profitable Book Launch with Born For This Author Chris Guillebeau EP 208 · Mar 29, 2016 · at 11:11
Author Chris Guillebeau shares lifetime sales figures for his 2012 book The $100 Startup across domestic and international publishers.
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“Hundred dollar startup is done very well. It's actually well over 300,000 copies now. You know, that book was published in the total number is kind of hard to predict because it comes from all these different publishers, but I believe I'm between half a million and a million.”
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