ouch...
so who wants to give them the news?
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http://www.publishamerica.com/cgi-bin/pamessageboard/data/newauthors/2963.htm
Message:
Hi fellow writers, we just had to pass on some more good news. Our marketing seems to be 'snowballing', and we haven't even got our own stratagy underway or better yet, spent a penny of our marketing budget.
It all started with 'Connect' our company's magazine that featured us, then two BBC Southern Counties Radio interviews. Now our regional newspaper wants to do a feature with photographs and our town website is going to run a series of our 'Travel Bite' articles!
All this is great, but a pity it is all before the book is available (awaiting cover art stage).
Now we would like to pose the question, have any of you been able to liase with PA regarding the retail price of your books?
We are convinced that to achieve volume sales, that a realistic price needs to be fixed. What is starting to be a widespread marketing stratagy could negated at a stroke by a high retail price.
We have found that our most benificial marketing tool to date is a website with an easy to remember address And linking it to our town website. Often town information websites are visited by local press and radio journalists seeking suitable people to cover/interview. So be pro-active on their message boards and letters pages, get yourselves noticed.
Cheers for now.
Steve & Linda
Two Clots in a Camper
www.twoclots.com
wkhammer
2/22/2005
14:54:28
RE: Retail Pricing????
Message:
The boards seem to be rather silent about the pricing of PA books. I offered that thread a month ago and got only one response. However, disgruntled anti-PA authors started discussing my thread on their own non-PA boards, saying that my book might end up being a $40 paperback. I hope they're wrong, as it will be nearly impossible to sell a paperback that costs more than $20.
Here's to selling a cheap paperback!
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I wish I was still able to post on the PA boards - here's the truth; your paperback is going to be unsellable at whatever price PA puts it at. Between the no-return policy and the price you're dead in the water, friend.