Public e-book poll

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Poll Ebooks

Edit: If you have never before purchased an ebook and you had the option of buying one, what would make you decide to do so? Please comment and let me know. :)

Comments

[mamarose]

I knew the author, and one of the characters was roughly based on me, so it was a no brainer for me to buy it in whatever format it came out in. The problem was that I had to either read 150 pages on the screen (not easy on the eyes) or print up 150 pages on my printer (not easy on the ink/paper supply).

The author worked on the road traveling merchant circuits that appeal to what his genre would be of interest to, and did public readings and such, and when he did - he handedout flyers on how to buy the book. In the end, he did not end up with a high sales rate. In theory, he had planned to have the book printed and able to sell when he merchanted on the road, but I think he was expecting the ebook to turn enough profit to pay for the printing.

The problem with ebooks, is that there are so many steps between you talking about the book, and the customer purchasing it. If you are advertising online, that's easy, it's just a link. But if you are talking about it in person, unless you have a computer with internet handy, you'll miss all of the impulse sales.

Do you plan to just do an ebook? Or will it also be in print? -Just curious :)

[x_bluerose_x]

My publisher does both (http://www.aphroditesapples.com) but e-book to start. They're pretty new. :)

I am extremely Internet savvy and have the blessings of Hermes. If I really didn't care about who knew that I wrote this book, I could put it up in particular communities and get a serious amount of people knowing about the book and probably purchasing it, if nothing else out of curiousity. It IS about a devotee of Apollo (which would increase the appeal in Pagan communities I'm sure) so odds are likely I can market this thing, no problem.

What I am wondering is if there are places online where these normally are marketed, sold, et cetera. It's a pretty new medium but it's starting to become pretty popular and I know that I've bought my share of e-books. I'm also a geek. ;) I figure the more avenues I know of in order to advertise this, the better.

My book is due out in the spring and I'm nearly done with the manuscript.

[mamarose]

I am WAY behind in following along with your book progress (I simply haven't been around on the internet). I think your book will be much more successful than my friend's was. For a lot of reason -better written, more interesting, much deeper into the internet age so this isn't so new of an idea in general.

Regardless, if I have the money, I'll be purchasing it ASAP. I cannot wait to read it!

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I'm pretty close to completion. The week after next week I have off, so any additional writing/editing I need to do before I hand it off to my editor will take place then. So VERY glad to have that week off, I tell you. This is like having two jobs.

I hope that you'll like it! My beta readers have been extremely forthright in their opinions and not afraid to piss me off or state what they think and they've been pretty positive about it so far. It's definitely an unusually put together cross-genre piece but I think it'll appeal to a wide variety of people depending on how it's marketed.

Really, my dream is to nab as many former fans of Laurell K. Hamilton's works and then I have it made. :)

[mamarose]

You are a far superior write than Ms Laurell K, no question about it. If you can get the word out, you should pick up a lot of her fans :)

[x_bluerose_x]

Thank you, I appreciate the vote of confidence :D