Publishing musings
Jan. 29th, 2009 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalJust debating internally after recieving a comment from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamhavik on my DeviantArt account about perhaps making Unexpected Diversions availible on Amazon.
Now, there are a couple of ways to go about this.
Kindle
Advantages:
1) Product will always be availible.
2) No expensive box of unsold books sitting in my closet.
Disadvantages:
1) Kindle is an exclusive Amazon product that has great anecdotal popularity but no statistical track record yet. Amazon is committed to their reader, but given the current economy they could very well pull the plug on it tomorrow.
2) Kindle format is incompatible with other portable readers, potentially limiting my sales.
Dead Tree Edition
Advantages:
1) Tactile. I'm enough of an old fogey that print is my preferred format. That and a book will never require batteries or signing an end user agreement before reading.
2) Ego. It'll be something I can look on my shelf. That and no one will ever ask me to sign their Kindle.
Disadvantages:
2) Expense. I'll have to print up X number of books to be ready to send them to buyers and mailing will be another expense. Realistically speaking I'd consider it a wild success if I sold a dozen copies, but that's still a dozen copies I would have to keep on hand to ship out.
Maybe my poll on Friday will give everyone a chance to let me know what their preference is.
tamhavik on my DeviantArt account about perhaps making Unexpected Diversions availible on Amazon. Now, there are a couple of ways to go about this.
Kindle
Advantages:
1) Product will always be availible.
2) No expensive box of unsold books sitting in my closet.
Disadvantages:
1) Kindle is an exclusive Amazon product that has great anecdotal popularity but no statistical track record yet. Amazon is committed to their reader, but given the current economy they could very well pull the plug on it tomorrow.
2) Kindle format is incompatible with other portable readers, potentially limiting my sales.
Dead Tree Edition
Advantages:
1) Tactile. I'm enough of an old fogey that print is my preferred format. That and a book will never require batteries or signing an end user agreement before reading.
2) Ego. It'll be something I can look on my shelf. That and no one will ever ask me to sign their Kindle.
Disadvantages:
2) Expense. I'll have to print up X number of books to be ready to send them to buyers and mailing will be another expense. Realistically speaking I'd consider it a wild success if I sold a dozen copies, but that's still a dozen copies I would have to keep on hand to ship out.
Maybe my poll on Friday will give everyone a chance to let me know what their preference is.
