KALEVALA

[Frank Stajano]

Hi Don!

At 1999-12-03 12:53 -0500, Don Rosa wrote:
>Speaking of that Finnish Kalevala book of mine, I think I said it was in
>its second printing? I need to correct that -- I just learned that it is
>currently in its FOURTH PRINTING. That's *50,000* copies sold since only
>the second week of November, a little over 3 weeks.  That's equivalent to a
>sale of about three million copies in America. And it's still new with the

What do you actually mean with this last statement? With everyone 
complaining that nobody in the USA (except the hard-core fans on this list) 
reads Disney comics, I would expect a proportion of any kind to be 
expressed in the direction of "X in Finland = X/1000 in USA", not "= X*1000 
in USA". Or am I missing something? Maybe this is a proportion based on the 
number of people in the country or something, like "you're selling one copy 
every 100 people"? Yeah, that must be it, he says answering his own silly 
question.

Anyway, WELL DONE! I look forward to being able to read this fabled story 
myself.

  Frank (http://i.am/filologo.disneyano/)  http://www.uk.research.att.com/~fms/