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Sell
more books by giving them away!
"It may seem slightly insane," write Arielle Eckstut
and David Henry Sterry in their new book Putting
Your Passion into Print, "but giving away books
can be a very, very good thing."
You want your books
to fall into the hands of the right audience, a
group that may include the
author's colleagues, professional reviewers,
academic adopters, college and independent
booksellers, rights buyers, librarians, newspapers,
magazines, radio stations, book groups, movie
agents, directors, producers, actors, websites, and
anyone else on your in-house list who you feel may
be interested in the book's topic.
Peter Workman, the publisher of the above-mentioned
book, has this rule: "For every one book you give
away, you sell three."
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Follow the leader
Read what Hai Tsabar, Director of Hebrew
University Magnes Press, has to say about his
experience with PRODiGY:
Two weeks ago, one of the authors of our new text
book Game Theory, Nobel Prize winner,
Prof. Robert Aumann,
asked me to send a copy
of an uncorrected proof to another professor for
review.
I used our office printer to print all 600 pages of
this book and placed it my briefcase to deliver it
personally two days later.
Meanwhile, I decided to e-mail the professor a
letter containing a link to the online edition of
the book with the request to comment and pass the
message on to others in this esoteric field.
The letter contained a special offer code, which
allowed him unrestricted reading of this title for
30 days (with the ability to copy and print
unblocked).
Now we have 53 newly registered readers who opened
the title and read a combined total of 545 pages.
Using Publishers Row's built-in "Rate this Title"
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2 important professors submitting their
endorsements.
The whole thing was more than reasonable and
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We are in the process of evaluating the results, but
my feeling is this new service points the way to a
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