Random Thought of the Day

Quote: Fleastiff

Why not just a straight 99 cents. People are likely to buy it and if they think its junk, they won't much care but you still rack up sales.

I would think it is really hard to generate interest because the market is so saturated. Why would someone pick my book when they have never heard of me? You have to do something to generate some "buzz", or just give the first one away as a loss leader, hoping to eventually generate a fan following.

Lots of would be musicians do this by handing out free home-burned CD's.

Quote: Ayecarumba

I would think it is really hard to generate interest because the market is so saturated. Why would someone pick my book when they have never heard of me? You have to do something to generate some "buzz", or just give the first one away as a loss leader, hoping to eventually generate a fan following.

Lots of would be musicians do this by handing out free home-burned CD's.

If you wanted to give it away you could just make it available on a website or Facebook. Could even have a voluntary payment button for those that like your story. Could also invite feedback but that might be hard on the ego. Some people have really strong opinions on line, not mentioning any names -;)

If you concentrate too much on making money by artistic output, chances are you'll be more miserable than satisfied. Because even good or great people don't always start making money. Worse than that, they'll be someone making a boatload of money writing ad jingles (Two and half men reference, but there is truth in it).

Quote: Ayecarumba

I would think it is really hard to generate interest because the market is so saturated. Why would someone pick my book when they have never heard of me? You have to do something to generate some "buzz", or just give the first one away as a loss leader, hoping to eventually generate a fan following.
Lots of would be musicians do this by handing out free home-burned CD's.

Musicians hand out CDs at the clubs at which they play which has listeners that like their kind of music.
People might buy your book because you legs are depicted on the cover? (Assuming female).
People might buy your book because of a three word blurb on the dust jacket?
People might buy your book because of a (fictitious?) biography on the dust jacket. (Former seal hunter, former soldier of fortune, twenty years in solitary).

Alot of marketing is Trust at First Encounter or affinity marketing. (Noted Libertarian author, noted feminist author, noted mysongynist author, noted soft porn author).

Good luckl

Other than people just paying you gobs of money directly, I like Beethoven's artistic deal. He became such a well-known talent instead of paying him to write specific works or dedications, they ended up just paying him to hang around and write whatever he wanted.

Really? $14.00

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Quote: rxwine

If you concentrate too much on making money by artistic output, chances are you'll be more miserable than satisfied.

The idea is to generate a second revenue stream, not to make a living from it (though I'd love to make a living off it).

I'm not very knowledgeable about the book industry, but I do know Amazon pays rather high royalties to authors publishing directly. I've looked at their site, and you can get choose either 35% or 70%. A $1 sale is limited to 35%. To get 70% you have to offer more and a higher price.

I figure if I can write short stories and sell them on Amazon, I might get a few hundreds per month as long as I keep doing it. The alternatives are magazines, which pay by the word and have a limited number of stories they can publish, and the odd anthology published now and then.

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Quote: reno

In unrelated science news...

Quote: link

Author information:

Department of Immunohematology and Blood Bank, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands.

We can write to volunteer for further study?

This is seriously odd. a few says ago I dreamt two football teams were squaring off, and instead of a coin toss, the home team offered a number of points, and the visitors a number of plays.

I got to thinking about it at odd moments, and I came up with this:

The home team offers points, which can't be less than nine.

The visiting team offers a number of plays, which can't be less than seven.

Then the teams can make one counter offer each.

If they accept the terms, play proceeds.

If they don't, then they have to take the offer they made and then play proceeds.

Let's try an example:

1) Home offers eleven points. Visitor offers eight plays.
2) Visitor says they'll take no less than twelve points.
3) Home agrees in exchange for nine plays.
4) Visitor agrees.

Ok, so now they play. How? Well, to begin with, the opening score is 0-12. Now the home team has three series of nine plays each, and they can try to score as many points as they want, but naturally with the victors playing defense. Scoring is exactly like it is now (TD, FG, PAT, 2-point conversion, safety), and the defense can still score if they can take the ball away (fumble or interception), but only during the play in question. there are no changes in possession. This makes up one quarter.

For the second quarter, the roles are reversed. Now Visitor offers points and home offers plays. Like so:

1) Visitor offers ten points. Home offers eight plays.
2) Home says they want eleven points.
3) Visitor agrees if Home will give nine plays.
4) Home says no. Visitor rejects the offer.

So now Visitor again takes points (ten this time), and plays defense again while Home tries to make do with three series of eight plays each.

This could get interesting. At first you'd think things would settle down to standard offers, but they'd depend on how well teams do on offense, and whether or not the defense can score. The defense would try to take the ball often, too. A team with a lousy offense and a great defense could try not to play their offense at all <w>, and vice versa.

I'm not proposing a sport built along these lines, but it would serve as football in, say, the year 2261 :)