Our webmistress (is that an okay term or does it sound kinky?) emailed me the other day to tell me that ebay was now selling books and I might want to go look. "Get out there and flog your books everywhere possible" is my motto. So, I went there and looked at, you guessed it, books. Under romance there were 1014 pages arranged enticingly by price, high to low or the other way.
I simply could not think of a less interesting way to arrange books for sale. It would never occur to me to buy my books because they are either cheap or expensive. I have something I loosely refer to as "taste" and "preference".
With an immediate impression that they did not have a system of interest to me, I decided to see if they had our first book. Lo and behold they did. It was listed by a company which had two "new" books for sale at full retail price. No problem. They could well have bought them from a wholesaler. Although I have to say that the number of "new" books out there stretches my credulity in many cases.
But what got my attention was the amount of information offered by this company about our book. It seems they had lifted all of the information we had put up on Amazon. Gives one pause about freedom of information although I must confess that we did put that information up on what must be considered the public domain.
Enter Google with their new book programs which I am trying hard to keep up with. I'm still not sure what I think although we are participating. My concern is that before I can develop a body of experience and establish an opinion that it will all change.
I'm to the point where I'm not sure I can say "stayed tuned". For what? I sit here looking at marketing for our books and have to make choices every day about what route I will take. The overload of possibilities is considerable. And I'm a person who loves to consider possibilities!
And so I am forced to set limits. We have a cell phone around her somewhere which I generally try not to carry except for specific purposes. My argument is the same one I had when car phones first arrived. I don't want you to be able to reach me at all times. I also feel no need to carry the cell phone partly because I don't want to be able to watch your video on it and I certainly don't want to try to read your book on it.
If I sound peevish, it is because that is how I am feeling. Part of me loves to see change and lots of it. But, this is beginning to make a cave look interesting. However, I will probably stay with the option of slogging and blogging on.
As disconnected as today's blog probably is, I feel better for having said it.
Come visit us at www.annierogers.com
I simply could not think of a less interesting way to arrange books for sale. It would never occur to me to buy my books because they are either cheap or expensive. I have something I loosely refer to as "taste" and "preference".
With an immediate impression that they did not have a system of interest to me, I decided to see if they had our first book. Lo and behold they did. It was listed by a company which had two "new" books for sale at full retail price. No problem. They could well have bought them from a wholesaler. Although I have to say that the number of "new" books out there stretches my credulity in many cases.
But what got my attention was the amount of information offered by this company about our book. It seems they had lifted all of the information we had put up on Amazon. Gives one pause about freedom of information although I must confess that we did put that information up on what must be considered the public domain.
Enter Google with their new book programs which I am trying hard to keep up with. I'm still not sure what I think although we are participating. My concern is that before I can develop a body of experience and establish an opinion that it will all change.
I'm to the point where I'm not sure I can say "stayed tuned". For what? I sit here looking at marketing for our books and have to make choices every day about what route I will take. The overload of possibilities is considerable. And I'm a person who loves to consider possibilities!
And so I am forced to set limits. We have a cell phone around her somewhere which I generally try not to carry except for specific purposes. My argument is the same one I had when car phones first arrived. I don't want you to be able to reach me at all times. I also feel no need to carry the cell phone partly because I don't want to be able to watch your video on it and I certainly don't want to try to read your book on it.
If I sound peevish, it is because that is how I am feeling. Part of me loves to see change and lots of it. But, this is beginning to make a cave look interesting. However, I will probably stay with the option of slogging and blogging on.
As disconnected as today's blog probably is, I feel better for having said it.
Come visit us at www.annierogers.com
posted by Roger | 8:31 AM
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