Get a free email newsletter subscription from PublishersWeekly.com and you'll see figures like that. Last Christmas Day, Amazon sold more ebooks than hardbacks. It's kept going up ever since.
Some do. I do, and a guy I helped publish his first book did, too. Got an article about him on the biggest site for screenwriters in the UK, with a chapter downloadable for free.
And people have to go to bookshops, look in a category, read the titles on spines, and inspect. In contrast, 25% of book sales now (roughly) are ebooks. Online, you can enter a type of book and get choices you can scroll through much more quickly and read sample pages. The advantage goes to ebooks.
Guess what? Most publishers don't do much of anything to promote you. That's why Wayne Dyer had to load up a bunch of books in his car and drive around to radio stations getting talking opportunities back in the day.
I've had about 40 books published, lots of how-to, and for the most part, I've made all my own publicitiy, like getting interviewed in a print newsletter reaching 700,000 people. Or calling in to a national radio show, mentioning the book, and selling out the 10,000 first run.
On the Net, you can build buzz by a lot of HARD WORK. Just like in the real world. I've never read a Konrath book and probably won't due to what he writes about, but I admire what he's doing.
I must say so, even though I edited it and sold it myself. Written by two of the best game writers in the business, who have also written and sold a lot of film and TV as well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/158065066X
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Read a book - http://tinyurl.com/27fd8m
It's written by two guys that Variety magazine put in the Top Power Players in the video game business. I put the book together, sold it to the publisher, and edited it.
It went to #1 in its category on Amazon.com for a reason - these guys know the business inside and out and you will learn what you need to know about how to break in with a game.
Obviously you haven't seen the full movie, and obviously absolutely nothing Ben Stein has ever done matters to you because he's "an ex-Nixon speechwriter" to you. Think much?
If you'd seen the movie, you'd know that a very clear connection is made between Nazi eugenics and Darwinism taken to the extreme. You'd also know that the poster boy for Darwinism, a sneering elitist, is taken apart by Stein in a short discussion, and reveals that his only answer to the beginning of life on Earth is panspermia! It started organically elsewhere, turned into space travelers, then came and started it here.
It's an excellent film and the sneering "certainty" that you expressed is exactly the kind of clustered dummyhood that is killing academia.
This one's pretty easy but there are several reasons.
1. People who are gurus, some of whom haven't even written a screenplay. All the execs do the seminar so they can "talk McKee" (for example) and then think they know what goes into a great movie. Yet McKee does six hours on "Casablanca" as the example of a great movie, which has a 45-minute first act and is a script you couldn't sell today. So go figure.
2. People in Hollywood or with a "coast" mentality (LA or NY) who don't really understand what the bulk of the country likes to see. So you get self-indulgence which leads to...
3.... people in the heartland and elsewhere just not giving a damn because they're not being served and great stories (not cookie-cutter formual stories) are not being told. That's why, when something like Blair Witch or Napoleon Dynamite comes along and is truly different, it does so well.
I talk about this stuff all the time on my free Yahoo discussion group. See http://www.skippress.com/
The owners of the cars that I know (right here in Burbank where the big protests were going on, including actress Alexandra Paul getting arrested) say that they DON'T need parts because they don't break down. You replace brakes and that's about it. What's so damned difficult about making those parts?
They cost about $15 a month to fuel (electricty) I'm told. Maybe the real truth is that GM would put itself out of business making cars that LAST a long time? That's probably closer to the truth.
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Get a free email newsletter subscription from PublishersWeekly.com and you'll see figures like that. Last Christmas Day, Amazon sold more ebooks than hardbacks. It's kept going up ever since.
Some do. I do, and a guy I helped publish his first book did, too. Got an article about him on the biggest site for screenwriters in the UK, with a chapter downloadable for free.
And people have to go to bookshops, look in a category, read the titles on spines, and inspect. In contrast, 25% of book sales now (roughly) are ebooks. Online, you can enter a type of book and get choices you can scroll through much more quickly and read sample pages. The advantage goes to ebooks.
Guess what? Most publishers don't do much of anything to promote you. That's why Wayne Dyer had to load up a bunch of books in his car and drive around to radio stations getting talking opportunities back in the day. I've had about 40 books published, lots of how-to, and for the most part, I've made all my own publicitiy, like getting interviewed in a print newsletter reaching 700,000 people. Or calling in to a national radio show, mentioning the book, and selling out the 10,000 first run. On the Net, you can build buzz by a lot of HARD WORK. Just like in the real world. I've never read a Konrath book and probably won't due to what he writes about, but I admire what he's doing.
I must say so, even though I edited it and sold it myself. Written by two of the best game writers in the business, who have also written and sold a lot of film and TV as well. https://www.amazon.com/dp/158065066X Skip www.skippress.com
Read a book - http://tinyurl.com/27fd8m It's written by two guys that Variety magazine put in the Top Power Players in the video game business. I put the book together, sold it to the publisher, and edited it. It went to #1 in its category on Amazon.com for a reason - these guys know the business inside and out and you will learn what you need to know about how to break in with a game.
Obviously you haven't seen the full movie, and obviously absolutely nothing Ben Stein has ever done matters to you because he's "an ex-Nixon speechwriter" to you. Think much? If you'd seen the movie, you'd know that a very clear connection is made between Nazi eugenics and Darwinism taken to the extreme. You'd also know that the poster boy for Darwinism, a sneering elitist, is taken apart by Stein in a short discussion, and reveals that his only answer to the beginning of life on Earth is panspermia! It started organically elsewhere, turned into space travelers, then came and started it here. It's an excellent film and the sneering "certainty" that you expressed is exactly the kind of clustered dummyhood that is killing academia.
This one's pretty easy but there are several reasons. 1. People who are gurus, some of whom haven't even written a screenplay. All the execs do the seminar so they can "talk McKee" (for example) and then think they know what goes into a great movie. Yet McKee does six hours on "Casablanca" as the example of a great movie, which has a 45-minute first act and is a script you couldn't sell today. So go figure. 2. People in Hollywood or with a "coast" mentality (LA or NY) who don't really understand what the bulk of the country likes to see. So you get self-indulgence which leads to... 3. ... people in the heartland and elsewhere just not giving a damn because they're not being served and great stories (not cookie-cutter formual stories) are not being told. That's why, when something like Blair Witch or Napoleon Dynamite comes along and is truly different, it does so well.
I talk about this stuff all the time on my free Yahoo discussion group. See http://www.skippress.com/
The owners of the cars that I know (right here in Burbank where the big protests were going on, including actress Alexandra Paul getting arrested) say that they DON'T need parts because they don't break down. You replace brakes and that's about it. What's so damned difficult about making those parts?
They cost about $15 a month to fuel (electricty) I'm told. Maybe the real truth is that GM would put itself out of business making cars that LAST a long time? That's probably closer to the truth.
Couldn't all those Mormons just line up on one end and pee and fill it back up in about an hour and a half? Somebody help me here...