Since the day it came out with no promos, no cocktail parties, no reviews, my book was 100-200 rank for the first few weeks and stayed in top 1000 for a while after. It never stopped selling because it spreads by word of mouth--people enjoy it. This makes some people mad, jealous
Midwit Jason Schreier who writes about videogames for Bloomberg says he has a bestselling book out. It came out 2017, mine 2018. His was published by Harper's, mine by nobody, no reviews etc., until a year after. Let's compare sales rank