If I print up a book of my poems, produced from when I was 15 to around 25, and sold it here, would you buy it?
It'll be a small volume of angry mutterings about the dark side of human sexuality, along with meditations on the importance of fast cars and loud rock music. Some rhyme and many do not.
It's terribly deep.
I think I'd like $12-$15 a volume for it.
Basically, I'm looking to make a quick buck, here. And who can blame me?
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One of the basics of marketing is the free sample - get them to want more by giving them a taste.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at June 24, 2006 05:55 AM (DdRjH)
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Yes. I've considered that, but of course I cannot publish them all online, or there would be no point in anyone buying the book.
So stay tuned. I'll start blogging a few of 'em.
Posted by: Attila Girl at June 24, 2006 09:31 AM (4IuF2)
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How deep? We are pretty shallow, you know. We don't want to drown, either. And would there be porn? I mean "art"? I've heard that sells a lot of things these days. Research proves research works!
How angry? Mo Do angry? The gentler sex doesn't like to mix sexuality with anger like that!
Posted by: Darrell at June 24, 2006 11:40 AM (Bol+p)
Posted by: Attila Girl at June 24, 2006 09:47 PM (4IuF2)
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Make it $3.00 and PDF. If it sells big you might get a print publisher to take it on.
And don't worry about free on-line publication of the whole magilla, that only whets the appetite for a real book.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at June 24, 2006 09:51 PM (hY1v8)
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Sell it by the word. Make them real good words, and raise the price. Maybe 10 cents each. Hemingway was paid more than any writer in history, $5,000 for a 1,000 word article by Esquire. That's $5 a word, but, of course, he had a following at the time that extended beyond Key West.
Posted by: clyde at June 30, 2006 08:36 AM (6m+7s)
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My words are freakin' prodigious.
Posted by: Attila Girl at June 30, 2006 10:52 AM (4IuF2)
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