tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post124139607234108137..comments2020-05-26T13:09:57.383-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought ___Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-51504761771370975342010-05-28T09:16:30.065-05:002010-05-28T09:16:30.065-05:00Lately I&#39;ve started to think we&#39;re oversel...Lately I&#39;ve started to think we&#39;re overselling Joe&#39;s print book success as a factor in his e-book success.<br /><br />It&#39;s only anecdotal, of course, but I&#39;ve heard a lot of people saying they&#39;d never heard of him before they saw the e-books. I&#39;d never heard of him before he started publishing e-books, but I don&#39;t know what kind of distribution his books received in Canada.John McFetridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442198820998606682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-77478363279633828932010-05-28T00:54:56.660-05:002010-05-28T00:54:56.660-05:00I like the indie band analogy. I think that&#39;s ...I like the indie band analogy. I think that&#39;s about where we are too.<br /><br />I think it really all comes down to expectations from the author. There are probably many, many, writers who would be over the moon to sell a few thousand copies of a book and earn $2 each to do it. If you can self-pub an ebook and, in theory, do it for free, then why wouldn&#39;t you at least give it a shot?<br /><br />I think the problem is that too many people don&#39;t see Konrath as the exception, but the rule. They figure if he can do it then they can too and they rush something onto one of the ebook sales platforms. They never consider that he is a traditionally published author with an already existing fanbase and a very popular blog. He already has an audience. He&#39;s selling well now because he has the name recognition, competitive prices and a quality product.Jarrett Rushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03880414261275692088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-34314531497822640582010-05-27T12:01:22.633-05:002010-05-27T12:01:22.633-05:00Jarrett, the main reason is because I&#39;m old. ...Jarrett, the main reason is because I&#39;m old.<br /><br />Really, that&#39;s all I&#39;ve got. Self-publishing has a bad reputation, that&#39;s it.<br /><br />For some reason the Do It Yourself approach has been celebrated in movies and music but not books. <br /><br />Of course, there&#39;s never been online publishing before making it easy to create a professional product.<br /><br />It may now be at the stage of a band selling their own CDs out of the back of a van. Some bands wanted to use tha as a springboard to a major label and some were happy to stay indie.<br /><br />And there may be a lot of publishers starting with e-books, kind of the publishing version of Sub Pop and indie labels like that.John McFetridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442198820998606682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-65917318065914379482010-05-27T11:37:46.202-05:002010-05-27T11:37:46.202-05:00Sorry this is a day late, but a question for John....Sorry this is a day late, but a question for John. <br /><br />Why don&#39;t you think it&#39;s a good idea to self-pub an ebook to Kindle? I&#39;ve been following the ebook/self-pub debate on a few different blogs and I&#39;d love to hear why you think it&#39;s a bad move.Jarrett Rushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03880414261275692088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-39789472232155019962010-05-26T09:56:33.186-05:002010-05-26T09:56:33.186-05:00That&#39;s good, Dana, I want those guys to earn t...That&#39;s good, Dana, I want those guys to earn that million bucks.<br /><br />And yes, Jerry, a lot will depend on who Amazon get to be the translators and it goes against my nature to be optimistic, but I&#39;m starting to think it&#39;s possible that the future may not be a bleak wasteland ;)John McFetridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442198820998606682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-26030346568880588202010-05-26T09:38:29.222-05:002010-05-26T09:38:29.222-05:00The possibilities for ways to sort through books o...The possibilities for ways to sort through books online to find what you like are limitless; the surface has barely been scratched.<br /><br />I gave my NetFlix password to my daughter when she left for college, so she could download movies straight to her iBook at school. Boy, has that got the NetFlix algorithm confused about what I might like.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-20635570736413464712010-05-26T06:09:06.614-05:002010-05-26T06:09:06.614-05:00The problem with translated books is that they rel...The problem with translated books is that they rely on a good translator. I hope that, while eliminating many standard publishing costs, Amazon does not stint on the quality/ability of its translators. That said, <br />I&#39;m looking forward to being able to read a lot of books now unavailable to me.Jerry Housenoreply@blogger.com
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