We are conducting an experiment to find out if it's worth our time to release the backlisted chapbooks as ebooks. Steve has not been in favor, and it took some negotiation to get the go-ahead to try uploading a few. A new one, and an old one. Another newish one and an old one in the pipeline. We'll see.
In the meantime, you, lucky woman, had your book two weeks ago; you ordered it knowing (you did KNOW this, right?) that it was paper. Most of the people who buy the paper chapbooks buy them because (1) the paper chapbooks are autographed (yours is autographed, right?) and (2) because it directly supports the authors. We've been doing a Yule chapbook, in paper, since 1995. It is, A Tradition.
Grabbed Skyblaze and looking forward to Halfling Moon!
As data for your experiment, I will buy any that I don't already have available in the Companions or Baen Unibuses, but not those I already have collected. If these newer stories were later collected, there's a good change I would also buy the collection, especially if a hard copy were available.
I imagine if the Yule Chapbook were available as an ebook around the same time as the paper version in future, that would increase overall sales but probably reduce paper ones. I'm not sure how the cost/benefit analysis works out for you (might be good to have fewer to post?) but if the paper sales are important, maybe 3 or 6 months later for the e-copy would be a good compromise for everyone.
Yes, please, do make backlisted chapbooks available in ebook format. It's been great, getting these announcements and going right to Amazon to pick them up. I wanted to drop a note to say thank you for putting them on Kindle; my living space is seriously limited so ebooks are the way to go for me and I am all excited to pick them up as they come out.
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Date: 2011-04-15 02:41 am (UTC)We are conducting an experiment to find out if it's worth our time to release the backlisted chapbooks as ebooks. Steve has not been in favor, and it took some negotiation to get the go-ahead to try uploading a few. A new one, and an old one. Another newish one and an old one in the pipeline. We'll see.
In the meantime, you, lucky woman, had your book two weeks ago; you ordered it knowing (you did KNOW this, right?) that it was paper. Most of the people who buy the paper chapbooks buy them because (1) the paper chapbooks are autographed (yours is autographed, right?) and (2) because it directly supports the authors. We've been doing a Yule chapbook, in paper, since 1995. It is, A Tradition.
Skyblaze paper version
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Date: 2011-04-15 07:12 am (UTC)As data for your experiment, I will buy any that I don't already have available in the Companions or Baen Unibuses, but not those I already have collected. If these newer stories were later collected, there's a good change I would also buy the collection, especially if a hard copy were available.
I imagine if the Yule Chapbook were available as an ebook around the same time as the paper version in future, that would increase overall sales but probably reduce paper ones. I'm not sure how the cost/benefit analysis works out for you (might be good to have fewer to post?) but if the paper sales are important, maybe 3 or 6 months later for the e-copy would be a good compromise for everyone.
Caroline
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Date: 2011-04-15 03:27 pm (UTC)