Comments on: Cheater’s Guide Cover

By: DMZ

DMZ — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:45:52 +0000

My actual about the author reads

DEREK ZUMSTEG co-authored five editions of the best-selling Baseball Prospectus annual and runs the most popular baseball web site ever, U.S.S. Mariner. He took the “World’s Smartest Human 2004″ title, was named People Magazine’s 101st most beautiful person three consecutive years, and climbed Mt. Everest twice in one year to show Jon Krakauer what’s up. He also contributes to ESPN.com and cheats at baseball, football, basketball, golf, poker, and his author bio.

By: Jim Thomsen

Jim Thomsen — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:28:56 +0000

Derek, can your paperback edition include an extra chapter called “How To Throw An Organization?”

By: JH

JH — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:02:34 +0000

‘Derek Zumsteg is the author of “Cheater’s Guide To Baseball”‘

Best About The Author ever?

By: DMZ

DMZ — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:57:40 +0000

I uh… use TitleZ frequently. Perhaps too often.

By: joser

joser — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:34:54 +0000

How weird, when I look at the Amazon sales rank, it should be fairly high up in the baseball bestsellers, but it’s not.

Derek, have you looked at TitleZ.com? It will graph your Amazon rank over time, and also compare a book to others you define. I had actually written (for an author friend) a Windows tray app that queries Amazon via their web services and logs the rank, but I quit after I found this.

By: John Beamer

John Beamer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:35:45 +0000

Derek,

I tried to send you an email to the USSMariner address but not sure if you got it. There is a great chance you ignored it because I call you David to start with (no idea why).

Anyway, I had a thought about promoting your book so if you are interested please drop me a line at johnbeamer230977@yahoo.com

By: DMZ

DMZ — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:19:09 +0000

Hey cool.

My USSM output, you probably noticed, has been way, way up since I’ve been writing full-time. If the book does well enough, that can continue.

By: MissingEdgar

MissingEdgar — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:41:15 +0000

Just ordered my copy, but wish I’d read carefully here first as I didn’t “click through”. Sorry.

I hope they beat the April shipping date, as I’ve really enjoyed your writing here and am anxious to get my copy. Though I hope you get rich, I hope it doesn’t reduce your presence here.

Good luck.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:56:42 +0000

How weird, when I look at the Amazon sales rank, it should be fairly high up in the baseball bestsellers, but it's not. Or "The bestselling new & future releases on Amazon.com" where it should be, if the ranks are updated hourly, ~5th.

By: colm

colm — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:54:48 +0000

36 – Quite. I’m continually pitching business contracts to a certain large corporation which operates on both sides of the pond. The US clients are price sensitive. The ones in London think we are amusingly cheap.