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Full Circle

^ Clearly the fanbase is sending Pocket books a clear message about how much they want Janeway back...
 
From Barnes and Noble.com

Title Hardcopy Nook
Homecoming N/A 32,379
The Farther Shore N/A 38,880
Unworthy 119,724 49,462
Before Dishonor 136,344 56,479
Old Wounds N/A 81,950
Enemy of My Enemy N/A 88,172
Full Circle 148,250 93,944
The Needs of the Many N/A 135,837

Children of the Storm 226,411 N/A
 
Be interesting to see an actual number that corresponds with the rankings...

Publishers don't makes sales totals available, so all we have are sales rankings from online distributors.

Both sales rankings I have access to do show that Unworthy sold better than Full Circle. And that Homecoming and The Farther Shore are both popular among Kindle/Nook users, more than likely because they cannot find the titles available in retail.

Amazon's sale rankings are showing that Children of the Storm is going to outrank both of Beyer's previous titles. I'm sure that the same will be true at Borders once the title is actually for sale.

I think if the lack of Janeway's presence were hurting Voyager, each successive Beyer book wouldn't be selling more than the previous one.
 
For Completeness's Sake these are the Amazon UK Scores:

Children of the Storm - #177,231
Unworthy - #174,788
Full Circle - #175,753
Before Dishonour - #100,125
The Needs of the Many- #272,568

Apparently in Britain we really wanted to see her dead!

(Joking!)
 
What those figures really tell you is that there is a demand for Voyager fiction that has not been met. I'm just wondering how much better those figures would be if Janeway was included in the cast of characters!

(Not joking! :lol: )
 
What those figures really tell you is that there is a demand for Voyager fiction that has not been met. I'm just wondering how much better those figures would be if Janeway was included in the cast of characters!

(Not joking! :lol: )

I don't know. If there was that big of a demand for Janeway you'd think The Needs of the Many would've sold better. :shrug:
 
What those figures really tell you is that there is a demand for Voyager fiction that has not been met. I'm just wondering how much better those figures would be if Janeway was included in the cast of characters!

(Not joking! :lol: )

String Theory: Cohesion - #308,335 (135,728)
String Theory: Fusion - #293,099 (64,994)
String Theory: Evolution - #278,137 (112,126)

Distant Shores - #271,101 (169,623)

Endgame - #868,255 (76,068)

At least on Amazon, it seems Voyager books have never sold that well in general.
 
Titan: Taking Wing - #119,093 (36,974)
Beneath the Raptors Wing - #245,382 (29,708)
The Good That Men Do - #245,560 (24,394)
Losing the Peace - #39,651 (46,720)
The Buried Age – #417,159 (60,031)
Resistance - #214,024 (75,412)
Inception - #401,555 (145,300)
The Children of Kings - #395,325 (59,376)
The Never Ending Sacrifice - #173,550 (108,811)

To me it seems the Voyager relaunch is doing very well (at least on Amazon) in comparison to the rest of the books being released. If I was a Voyager fan, that fact would delight me to no end.
 
I don't have a problem with the concept of disagreeing with the editors' decision to kill off janeway in principal, but what's done is done and continuing to obsess over said decision and clamor for it to be undone is completely pointless and serves only to cast a bad reflection on the section of the Voyager fandom who would have preferred that the editors of the ST novels would have kept Janeway alive

So damn true. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other that she's dead, but the fanatical church of Janeway makes me feel ashamed to like Voyager due to association.
 
I don't have a problem with the concept of disagreeing with the editors' decision to kill off janeway in principal, but what's done is done and continuing to obsess over said decision and clamor for it to be undone is completely pointless and serves only to cast a bad reflection on the section of the Voyager fandom who would have preferred that the editors of the ST novels would have kept Janeway alive

So damn true. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other that she's dead, but the fanatical church of Janeway makes me feel ashamed to like Voyager due to association.

At the point that I posted that, I wasn't ready to disassociate myself from the Voyager fandom as a whole because of the people who've taken their appreciation of Janeway's character far beyond the norm, but that's long since ceased being the case, as there have been several people here who have repeatedly called my devotion to Janeway's character and Voyager as a whole into question because I don't agree with their viewpoint(s) and have described their behavior in expressing/enforcing said viewpoints as being obsessive and/or extreme.
 
ROFL. The only reason Trek is here is because of obsessive fans like the "militant Janewayites." In the 1970's, we Trekkies were obnoxious to the extreme and were openly ridiculed, even by "get a life" Shatner (and we loved it). We wouldn't let go and, because of that, The Motion Picture came out and then TNG hit the airwaves. The rest is history. :techman:

So you aren't on the "bring Janeway back bandwagon," that's fine. We are rabid fans of what we like in the grand Star Trek tradition. Just wave and let us toss you coffee-flavored candy as we drive by!;)
 
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Funny that you'd bring up the "Get a Life" Shatner, since that entire skit was just meant to be a joke and it was only a particular group of fans who decided it meant he'd set out to offend the fanbase...

It was Shatner being Shatner, I just finished "I'm working on that" and throughout the book there are occasional jokes of a similar vein about Leonard Nimoy who IRL is one of his best friends...just saying...
 
So damn true. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other that she's dead, but the fanatical church of Janeway makes me feel ashamed to like Voyager due to association.

Says the guy posting on a Star Trek message board on the interwebs. "Ashamed?" LOL. You're a Trekkie. When you tell your non-Trekkie buddies that you're a Trekkie, I bet they don't give two shits which show or characters you like.

I know mine don't. They usually laugh it off and we move on. They make parody movies about Trekkies. We already have plenty to be ashamed for. I always find it funny when one Trekkie tries to be superior to another Trekkie.

And you guys realize the "How is Janeway Sexy" thread is mostly drunken off-topic blather, yes? And you clearly read no one else's posts.

I'm sure we wouldn't have had any Star Trek past the original series if the hardcore fans hadn't been so damn hardcore.
 
Funny that you'd bring up the "Get a Life" Shatner, since that entire skit was just meant to be a joke and it was only a particular group of fans who decided it meant he'd set out to offend the fanbase...

It was Shatner being Shatner, I just finished "I'm working on that" and throughout the book there are occasional jokes of a similar vein about Leonard Nimoy who IRL is one of his best friends...just saying...

All humor is based on truth, though. The Trekkies were considered crazy fanatics in those days (and these, too?) by a large part of society. "Spaceballs" wouldn't be funny otherwise. And, of course, Shatner was being Shatner. Gotta love that. :lol:
 
And you guys realize the "How is Janeway Sexy" thread is mostly drunken off-topic blather, yes? And you clearly read no one else's posts.

In 160 pages I think we've only been on-topic for about 35 of them. Beyond that it's a hodge podge of subjects. :techman::guffaw::)
 
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