In February our no 1 best seller, and new title was The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About selling 2,694 copies. Orbital remained in second place for the third month running with 2,118 sales (+421). The Season was rolled to fifth place with another new title, Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks with 1,545 sales.
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In January, we focused on:
New Features & Upgrades
• Introduced a new API endpoint for real-time transaction updates.
• Upgraded to Rails 8.0 and 7.2 for improved compatibility and reliable testing.
Housekeeping & Maintenance
• Stabilized flaky tests and refined the onboarding process.
• Removed the feature flag for the author filter in the Best Sellers report.
• Optimized slow database queries, product metadata, and invoice processing.
• Modernized UI elements and state management with the Vue 3 upgrade.
• Improved automated tests for more consistent outcomes.
In December, our top three chart-toppers were Helen Garner’s The Season with 7,905 copies sold (+5,068), Orbital by Samantha Harvey with 7,148 sales (+5,848), and Tim Winton’s Juice with 4,656 sales (+4,214).
In December, our top three chart-toppers were Helen Garner’s The Season with 7,905 copies sold (+5,068), Orbital by Samantha Harvey with 7,148 sales (+5,848), and Tim Winton’s Juice with 4,656 sales (+4,214).