Re: Why?

--- In [email protected], "Brenna Lyons" wrote:
> >  I'll run a little experiment in my private sales groups to see
> >  how many would buy paper versions if they cost around $15.
> >  Figuring maybe half the people who'd show initial interest might
> >  actually buy, I'll see if I can rustle up enough potential customers
> >  to justify the time and trouble of prepping POD files and choosing
> >  a POD pubber when I could otherwise be working on my latest book.
> 
> Good plan. Before Piers started writing on UNDER A VELVET CLOAK, the
> newest Incarnations of Immortality book, he polled his newsletter
> readers to see how many would be interested in Nox's book, after
> such a long break from the rest of the series. The numbers were
> overwhelming in support, so he started working on it. It never hurts
> to ask the readership you have established for input, IMO.

The numbers were overwhelming because long-time authors like Anthony
and Heinlein have herds of *devotees*.
The rest of us relative newbies mostly just have readers. :)
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45



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