Comments on: New investment model? Treat bands like startups? Writers, too? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim MacKrell http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1109161 Jim MacKrell Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:23:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/22/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/#comment-1109161 I am doing something very similar. We've opened negotiations with a major manufacture who is reaching the same audience we are striving for. By cross promoting we both reach our goal. They would be title sponsors with exposure on our website as well as the front cover and back cover of the novel. I am doing something very similar. We’ve opened negotiations with a major manufacture who is reaching the same audience we are striving for. By cross promoting we both reach our goal. They would be title sponsors with exposure on our website as well as the front cover and back cover of the novel.

]]> By: Mags http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1109042 Mags Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:00:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/22/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/#comment-1109042 As a writer, I love this idea. But then, I'm a control freak. ;-) As a writer, I love this idea. But then, I’m a control freak. ;-)

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1108836 Steve Jordan Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:38:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/22/new-investment-model-treat-bands-like-startups-writers-too/#comment-1108836 Although I think the idea can work, it won't work in the present service model... IOW, writers are going to have to do more than just write, they won't be able to afford hiring others to do all the service-work provided by a traditional publisher. Fortunately, with the web and web services, many of those promotional services are more easily done on your own than ever before. Methods and tactics would change, but I believe it can be just as effective in the long run. (Disclosure: I essentially do all of my own service work, with occasional assistance in editing, and only an essentially-zero promo budget has kept me from going further.) Although I think the idea can work, it won’t work in the present service model… IOW, writers are going to have to do more than just write, they won’t be able to afford hiring others to do all the service-work provided by a traditional publisher.

Fortunately, with the web and web services, many of those promotional services are more easily done on your own than ever before. Methods and tactics would change, but I believe it can be just as effective in the long run. (Disclosure: I essentially do all of my own service work, with occasional assistance in editing, and only an essentially-zero promo budget has kept me from going further.)

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