{"id":13841,"date":"2014-08-28T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2014-08-28T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:00:20","slug":"liking-koala-is-a-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=13841","title":{"rendered":"The Infallible Nature of Your Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are different methods of gauging the success of frontlist picture book titles based on in store resources. These ordering criteria methods vary in their probability of success. Here is a chart.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ordering Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0Objective Evaluation of Succes<\/strong>s<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Actual Percentage of Success<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">I love the book<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Infallible in theory but fallible in practice<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">82.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Bloggers heart the book on Edelweiss<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Fallible in theory and practice<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">27.99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">A potpourri of industry types heart the book on Edelweiss<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Fallible in theory and practice<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">43 booksellers heart the book on Edelweiss<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Okay, okay I&#8217;ll bring it in<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">82.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">My rep really did love this one<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">Okay, okay I&#8217;ll bring it in<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">82.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">The blad was shared around the store after someone fell in love with it and everyone loves it<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">infallible in theory and infallible in practice<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"213\">100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A quick glance reveals that the final method of uncovering high probability handselling success stories is <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/i-dont-like-koala-9781481400695_lg-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13845\" alt=\"i-dont-like-koala-9781481400695_lg\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/i-dont-like-koala-9781481400695_lg-2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>by far the best. It doesn&#8217;t happen often but when it does it is hard to argue with the certainty of success. For example when I came into the store last week I found an f&amp;g of a book coming out in April 2015, <em>I Don&#8217;t Like Koala,<\/em> sitting on my chair. &#8220;Read this one,&#8221; I was told, &#8220;it&#8217;s awesome.&#8221; Over the next few days every staffer made certain that I had read it because it was either &#8220;awesome,&#8221; &#8220;great,&#8221; or totally wonderful and hilarious.&#8221;<br \/>\nIs it all those things? Of course it is. Look at the chart. Everyone will like<em> I Don&#8217;t Like Koala<\/em> eventually. You see even if they are so misguided as to not like it immediately Koala will handle it himself. That&#8217;s what he does with his terrible eyes and his warm, mysterious, determined heart.\u00a0 Terrific illustrations and a great story, what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or why everyone will like &#8216;Koala.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}