Re: Re: Ebook awards in general - brilliant idea

>
> > I've seen people discuss how to ballot stuff the P&E.
>
> Heh. Must have happened after I got the SF #1 for '3rd World Products',
> 'cuz I don't think I even know enough people to swing something like that.
> How many would it take?
>

No idea, because I would never do it. Grin... But considering their method
of doing it, not many. They were playing email and ISP games.


>
> Still agreed. If nominated, fine, but I won't pay to be read. Someone told
> me some time ago that it should always be the other way around. :) ('Money
> flows to the author')
>

We disagree here. I would pay for a judged contest and sometimes do. BTW,
the money flowing to the author applies to how the money flows in the
publisher/author or agent/author situation...not in contests or marketing.
That's a different sort of reading fee than contests are.


>
> Tampa has art contests every year. From what I've read in a few
> newsletters, they have the same problem finding unbiased judges.
> Seems likely any form of artistic expression is going to run into the same
> problems.
>

Art is MUCH harder than books. You can set standards for books that you
can't set in fine art. That is really dependent on the eye of the beholder.


>
>
> All we need is a pertinent sponsor to fund and help organize something big,
> bright, and bold enough to make some tall promotional waves among readers
> and publishers alike.
>

That is a good idea, if you can pull it off.


>
> Amazon wouldn't do it for anything but its Kindle.
> BN - ditto - Nook.
>

Actually, B&N doesn't even support Nook, from what I've seen. EPICon this
year offered to come in and do an ebook event where we would have prizes for
attendees, sign promo materials, demonstrate the Nook reader for them and
the Nook for PC reader...even work out a way to sell Nook ebooks on site to
attendees of the event. And we had two main signatories with NY-published
titles (one a NTY Bestseller) and others with books that could be ordered in
to increase the draw with the signed paper books, even as the focus would be
on ebooks. And they weren't interested in the least. How often do you get
people coming in, willing to ONLY sell things and demo things that will make
you money...and refuse to even consider it? That's B&N for you.


>
> Maybe a coalition of epublishers? How many are there?
>

Tens of thousands, at least. The problem is, so many are entering and
leaving the market every year, by the time a list is made, it's obsolete.

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