Very limited budget for ads, I believe. But certainly it's not worth dismissing. And no, I won't be bombarding people here with pleas to buy the book. This post, and likely a few others spread out and focusing on the Table of Contents, when the ARCs are going out and if any more contests are run, will be the main extent of my involvement with marketing at this site. Likely the blogger and podcast media will be more important for the money.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Fun, imaginative exercise on bookselling
- 11/06/2010 12:25:07 AM
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post it somewhere then get a lot of people to write really good reviews about it? *NM*
- 11/06/2010 12:30:54 AM
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Buy an add on readandfindout.com? *NM*
- 11/06/2010 12:31:18 AM
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Is the readership worth the money?
- 11/06/2010 01:05:50 AM
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Change the name to "Buy this Book or Die a Fiery Death in Forty Days" *NM*
- 11/06/2010 12:33:55 AM
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And then start a chain letter e-mail. But are the increased sales really worth selling your soul? *NM*
- 11/06/2010 01:06:13 AM
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Re: Depends. How much is your soul worth? One brother? One bestseller?
- 11/06/2010 11:39:58 AM
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Not likely
- 11/06/2010 01:07:28 AM
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- 11/06/2010 01:07:28 AM
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"Best American Fantasy" sounds like "Regular Detergent"
- 11/06/2010 02:03:57 AM
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It's based on Best American Short Stories
- 11/06/2010 03:18:47 AM
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BASS? You mean THE BASS? Never heard of it. Sounds like "Potato Chips".
- 11/06/2010 05:49:37 PM
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A few (probably bad) ideas.
- 11/06/2010 05:32:31 PM
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Tell everyone that this book will be what the book club is reading.
- 12/06/2010 02:33:51 PM
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Keep the authors in it a deathly secret, start an ARG for people to figure out who will be in it
- 12/06/2010 05:47:10 PM
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Put Ellen on the cover. Runs risk of suit, but probably gets you on her show either way. *NM*
- 15/06/2010 10:27:57 PM
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*NM*