Comments on: Book sales and wails

By: Kimberly Steele

Kimberly Steele — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:59:09 +0000

Wonderful post & comments. Sure, it takes a longer time for a book to build sales, but the corp of fans that develops around that long tail is extremely devoted. Loyal fans buy books and see the movies made from those books! The publishing industry will be back, but it will have to adapt. Smaller advances for authors, attention to niche marketing, and an internet + audiobook friendly approach are the way of publishing future. The publishing industry isn't dying, it's changing. Books are just houses for stories. Great storytelling never goes out os fashion.

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By: Barbara Martin

Barbara Martin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:53:24 +0000

Wise words that hopefully some executives in the publishing houses will read.

By: bubblecow

bubblecow — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:35:21 +0000

I think that this posts hits the nail on the head regarding long term sales. Today writers can build the kind of web presence that brings them new readers all year round. After a book is new to a reader the first time they read it!

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:08:05 +0000

Thank you so much for that post, Miriam. I couldn't have said it better.

I was put on the spot myself by the Dallas Morning News not too many months ago. I thought I was being interviewed about MY opinion on the economy and independent presses. Unfortunately they were more interested in twist my words so they could have the gloom and doom article they were looking for.

We're buying books from authors - bookstores are selling them. As far as I can see the book business is still in business.

By: Corinne Bowen

Corinne Bowen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:29:45 +0000

Thank you so much for this post! how refreshing to finally hear something positive. Now it's time for more manuscript revisions:)

By: Watery Tart

Watery Tart — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:50:44 +0000

LOVE your perspective here. I completely agree that a long-term approach, and a spread over more authors/books for that advance money, is a smarter way to be sure things pan out. It is the same idea with investing–spread the risk and you'll do well eventually.

As for book buying–there are two times I buy day of: 1) it is part of a series my kids are following, 2) there is a STEEP discount for first day sales of something I know I'll buy anyway–a gimmick I know is devised to make a best seller list, but why not take advantage? (and if everybody buys it that way, doesn't that make it HARDER to make up the advance? Unless the gimmick works, I mean)

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:14:44 +0000

I didn't like the Time Traveler's Wife either. Barb

By: Ev

Ev — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:37:26 +0000

Thanks for the encouraging post. I had similar convictions, and it's nice to have them affirmed by someone in the know. (I'm not just foolishly optimistic, hurrah! ;-)

Have a great weekend.

By: Rick R Reed

Rick R Reed — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:04:24 +0000

You are so right. And it's sad to see that some higher ups in publishing have yet to get the message about how the market is changing.