Some inside info on publishing
Apr. 5th, 2009 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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truepenny HERE. And be sure to read through to all the comments. There are some interesting comments with regards to the practice of publishers not listing on the cover that a book is part of a series. I guess I've been hiding under a rock. I didn't realize this was happening. I think it's deplorable. Apparently their reasoning is that a casual buyer won't buy a book in a bookstore if it's labeled as Book 2 of a series. While I admit this is true, I think they're overlooking something. As a buyer, I *look* for series. I want to buy series. If I pick up Book 2 in a store and it interests me, I go ahead and buy it and then look for Book 1 online or else I order it or whatever. It doesn't keep me from buying Book 2 -- it encourages me to buy both books. I understand the business end of the deal and all, but I truly think they're misreading buyers. There is the other side of the coin -- the disillusioned buyer who reads the entire book and only realizes at the end that they've been cheated out of knowing that this is the second book in a series. Or the buyer who throws the book across the room in disgust because they couldn't figure out what was going on early in the book--not realizing it was book 2 of a series. I guess the bookstores are the ones ruling the roost here, from what I understand of the comments.
Anyway, go read, and enlighten yourself, especially if you plan to write a series of novels.
truepenny HERE. And be sure to read through to all the comments. There are some interesting comments with regards to the practice of publishers not listing on the cover that a book is part of a series. I guess I've been hiding under a rock. I didn't realize this was happening. I think it's deplorable. Apparently their reasoning is that a casual buyer won't buy a book in a bookstore if it's labeled as Book 2 of a series. While I admit this is true, I think they're overlooking something. As a buyer, I *look* for series. I want to buy series. If I pick up Book 2 in a store and it interests me, I go ahead and buy it and then look for Book 1 online or else I order it or whatever. It doesn't keep me from buying Book 2 -- it encourages me to buy both books. I understand the business end of the deal and all, but I truly think they're misreading buyers. There is the other side of the coin -- the disillusioned buyer who reads the entire book and only realizes at the end that they've been cheated out of knowing that this is the second book in a series. Or the buyer who throws the book across the room in disgust because they couldn't figure out what was going on early in the book--not realizing it was book 2 of a series. I guess the bookstores are the ones ruling the roost here, from what I understand of the comments.Anyway, go read, and enlighten yourself, especially if you plan to write a series of novels.
