From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Monday, September 1, 2014 11:42:53 PM UTC+1, Bill Swears wrote:   
   > On 9/1/2014 10:08 AM, Dirk van den Boom wrote:   
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   > > Am 01.09.2014 15:25, schrieb Nicky:   
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   > >> I probably should have thought this through because I can't delay for   
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   > >> long and I don't have time to send it to a better house. Obviously I   
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   > >> am an idiot, but what do you think - is any publisher better than none?   
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   > > That's not the question.   
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   > > The question is: Do you have the ressources available in time and money   
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   > > to assure that the quality of your self-published work meets the   
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   > > standards you expect? If no, don't do it.   
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   > > If yes, it might be better than "any publisher". Still, "better" needs a   
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   > > qualification. Is it better in "looking good", or in "earnings" or in   
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   > > "reputation" or in "stepping stone toward my fantastic career as a   
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   > > professional writer"?   
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   > > As always, the answer isn't easy. I don't want to self publish and I   
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   > > don't intend to. But my two publishers are producing both ebooks and the   
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   > > printed matter in excellent quality and they pay me well.   
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   > I may be an outlier, but my sales tanked when the book came out under   
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   > the publisher's imprint.  They never recovered, even when the paper   
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   > version came out.   
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   > Part of that was probably because Amazon wouldn't link my self-published   
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   > link to the publisher's link, so people stopped being able to find the   
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   > original link, and that meant that my self-promotions had to restart,   
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   > but I'd already used most of my social connections for the   
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   > self-publishing.  Part of it might be that my self-promotion had reached   
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   > its natural limit, and the sales were doomed to crash about then anyway.   
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   Yeah - self promotion isn't really my thing. It is really important but it   
   makes me feel queasy. Also I am crap at it.   
   I think you were just unfortunate, Bill. It happens and is no a reflection on   
   the work.   
   Nicky   
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