Comments on: “Free” Academic Titles http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/bookscan-data-on-free-academic-titles/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: MarionGropen http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/bookscan-data-on-free-academic-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-8 MarionGropen Sat, 16 May 2009 02:25:14 +0000 http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/?p=43#comment-8 I'm very interested in your results, as I believe all numbers-oriented publishing folks are likely to be. If you're not making your results available through such industry standards as Book Business (try Gene Schwartz), Foreword, PW, the IBPA Independent, and blogs such as PersonaNonData, please at least blog about them, and announce them to the listservs serving the small press community. I'm thrilled that SOMEONE is finally doing a rigorous examination of this. Do, please, consider extending your study through all the different major market segments. I think we all know that fiction, popular non-fiction, professional books, tech books, and academic books, to name only a handful, are quite different, and their readers act in different ways. I've heard anecdotal evidence for years suggesting that trade books do better after giveaways, and that some other segments have to be locked up like the Tower of London. I'm hoping you'll be able to find out if that's true. I’m very interested in your results, as I believe all numbers-oriented publishing folks are likely to be. If you’re not making your results available through such industry standards as Book Business (try Gene Schwartz), Foreword, PW, the IBPA Independent, and blogs such as PersonaNonData, please at least blog about them, and announce them to the listservs serving the small press community.

I’m thrilled that SOMEONE is finally doing a rigorous examination of this.

Do, please, consider extending your study through all the different major market segments. I think we all know that fiction, popular non-fiction, professional books, tech books, and academic books, to name only a handful, are quite different, and their readers act in different ways.

I’ve heard anecdotal evidence for years suggesting that trade books do better after giveaways, and that some other segments have to be locked up like the Tower of London. I’m hoping you’ll be able to find out if that’s true.

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