Promotion of a books is a strange one
because it's so dependant on word of mouth. It depends what you want though, you're obviously not going to ever have the big blockbuster 20,000 in a day sales that large scale promotion wants and in fact needs to sustain itself. There's nothing wrong with pushing for a gradual increase of sales through submitting it for reviews in blogs/newspapers/magazines/book clubs.

To your aside, I think it's going to head towards eBooks in just the same way as mp3's have. The kindle etc are actually quite nice to read from, nothing like a normal screen, and the iPad has to make a difference to the market. It's just going to take some time.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:32, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post864674

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:36, Reply)

www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/20/amazon-ebook-digital-sales-hardbacks-us
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:39, Reply)

So? No-one buys hardbacks.
Also, "Amazon in being completely honest about sales figures and not massaging them"* yeah right. Have you met my good friend Lord Lucan?

*/I've got to go and lecture now so I don't have time to look, but I'm willing to bet you £20 right now that what Amazon have done is they've compared book titles directly for those figures. i.e the number of eBooks of "dragon tattoo" vs number of hardbacks of "dragon tattoo". Which will be about 11, as it's been out in paperback for years. It's not lying, but it's massively misleading. There's no way they've just added up "total eBooks" and "total hardbacks"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I'll check the fiqures and get back to you.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I think the biggest problem with the iBook store is that it's not really any cheaper to buy a phsyical book over an eBook.... but you have to outlay £400-500 for the reading equipment.
However, Kindla have an store I've not tried where the prices are quite a bit lower.

Where these devices come into their own though, is with law and medical students, and to a lesser extent every other student or academic, who have to carry around huge books.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:47, Reply)