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(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
In article znr1089551452k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
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The book is 396 pages long, is 1 and 3/8 inches thick, and weights 1.4
pounds. It's a hardbound smythe sewn book
Thanks for the specs. If I knew where I could get 396 pages printed
and bound, and make a little money selling it for $19.95, I'd publish
the book of my Recording articles that people have been asking for.
Cafepress actually isn't bad if you only have a small number that get sold,
but it's phenomenally expensive if you sell a lot. I've been looking into
doing that with the Recording articles but the thing is that I am not sure
what the actual sales will be like, and I really have no clue how to market
it.
seems to me that the market is pretty specific and there are only a
few ways of reaching that specific audience effectively: ads at
pro-audio discussion sites, or related sites, (there will surely be a
number of people interested here on RAP, but i suppose that's a given.
), you could put together a new website dedicated to the book and
offer a few of your articles for free (to get some traffic and foster
more interest) with ads for the book on each page and the ability to
purchase on the web, ads in the usual magazines: Mix, TapeOp,
SoundOnSound, Electronic Musician, Remix, Recording, etc...most have
classified sections that might suffice if the investment isn't
worthwhile for an actual ad space. if it were me (i know, it isn't!)
i'd probably focus on taking out ads in the more DIY/prosumer oriented
mags. it seems like there'd be a bigger market there period, but also
for your specific articles anyway.
obviously, you've probably thought about all of this, but i thought
i'd toss it in there as encouragement, because i think you might be
surprised by how much a book of your articles would probably tend to
just "sell itself" with a minimum of marketing. and also that it seems
like there aren't a ton of options for marketing such a specific
product anyway except the more obvious ones.
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