“What Is the Meta-Rational Thing to Do Here? [Comments]”, 2020-12-05 (; similar):
As for figuring out demand before offering for pre-order… man, my error bars were 50–50,000.
We’ve never sold such highly designed high print quality books like this before, our colleagues at MIRI have focused on ebooks and print-on-demand books at like $1–$10 apiece, I really didn’t know which way it would go.
Seems like we’re just got 100 sales in the last 2 hours on MR, so I guess seems like the market is quite big.