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Books Don’t Spoil….
But Covers and Sales Copy Need Refreshing At Times… At WMG, this is an ongoing thing. Kris and I are always doing new projects that take priority on the publishing side. For example, the new Fey novel I showed you last night. New issues of Pulphouse. New Collides series volumes, and so on. But we also have over a thousand titles up, or getting put back up, right now. And we have learned a lot in the last ten years and are a thousand times better cover designers than our old staff could ever dream of being. So we have a lot of books that need refreshing. A lot, to…
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Front List and Back List
Talked About This Before… But yesterday I got this newsletter that comes out monthly focused about 95% on traditional publishing. And let me tell you, folks, from the sounds of things in traditional publishing, everything is just doing great. (Note I said from the sounds of things.) They are using all kinds of hinky percentage increases that are statistically bogus and mean nothing. And, of course, the real reasons the balance sheets are standing strong under observation of public traded corporations are the IP valuations and depreciation of those IP assets. Book sales are not holding these companies up, let alone the companies vast expenses in New York property, or…
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Books Don’t Spoil…
I Have Been Saying That For Years… In traditional publishing, books are like bananas that go bad after a short time on the shelves and must be replaced with a fresh banana. But in indie publishing, years can go by before a book finds its true market. The book didn’t spoil in that time frame. Brandon Sanderson got well past a million bucks just doing a Kickstarter campaign for a hardback of a ten year old novel. Thankfully for him, he understood that books don’t spoil. So I fight this stupidity all the time in a lot of ways. And one way I try is by adding reprint stories in…