Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00218)

kpauljohnson wrote:
> As a quick and dirty measure of the comparative sales of Leadbeater
> and Blavatsky titles published by TPH, I looked in Amazon.com and
> found that CWL's top selling title is The Chakras, which has a
> cumulative sales ranking of 80,719. His The Astral Plane is
> 139,160. Turning to Blavatsky, I find no TPH titles in the top 10
> sellers with that keyword. TUP's Secret Doctrine ranks #1 in that
> listing, cumulative sales ranking being 33,909. The highest ranking
> TPH title on the Blavatsky list is #15, Michael Gome's abridgement of
> Isis Unveiled, cumulative ranking 306,738.

However, as you said, it is quick and dirty. For example, The
Theosophical Society in America has 3 major bookstores and several minor
bookstores, and encourage their members to buy from these bookstores
rather than Amazon.

Bart Lidofsky