Comments on: More on distribution & Publicity (Part I) http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/11/20/more-on-distribution-publicity-part-i/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: absurditypublishing http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/11/20/more-on-distribution-publicity-part-i/#comment-2899 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:15:56 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/more-on-distribution-publicity-part-i/#comment-2899 Like this post and indeed this blog. The thing that really concerns me is just the amount of money that gets sucked out of the system by these mad advances and just what effect that has on the ability of smaller publishers to get their books noticed.

I worked out some of the (very very!) rough econmics of it and it some of these advances never made sense let alone in teh context of the actual numbers generated for the Blunkett and Ashley Cole books (as just two examples).

I looked at the econmics here
http://absurditypublishing.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/celebs-failing-but-at-what-cost/

Keep up the good work – you always post really interesting stuff.

]]> By: litlove http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/11/20/more-on-distribution-publicity-part-i/#comment-2617 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:48:11 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/more-on-distribution-publicity-part-i/#comment-2617 Would it be fair to say the size of the advance has some bearing on the efforts of the publicity department in the traditional publishing house? I guess if a company has forked out for what it considers to be a good thing, it will put its back into making that good thing happen. But I suppose this rarely applies to first time novelists, anyhow.

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