Bruno

Discussion (2) ¬

1. 
   Pete Rogan

   December 6, 2016 at 8:35 pm | #

   Anybody can write a book. Anybody with money can get that book printed up. But distributing it and selling it? You will grow gray and bent and old from hawking it at art fairs and book fairs and street festivals and any other gathering of the public where they don’t kick you out. You won’t break even.

   Distribution and sales are the hard part. The web only gives you a very tiny soapbox no higher than anybody else’s to hawk your wares, and without some sort of promotion and reach to the public — and a means of getting their attention long enough to shift it to your book — you might as well be trying to sell cans of peas one at a time. The public doesn’t see your work as anything more special than that.

   You might as well make a corner of your site a paysite and entice people with the forgotten novel to be found within. People love mysteries they can buy themselves into. But don’t think this is going to make you the next Random House. Your sales are never going to be better than your traffic. Fact of life, I’m afraid.
2. 
   Christopher

   December 6, 2016 at 9:48 pm | #

   Hold on, rummage rummage, where’d I put the whisky.