Comments on: Robin Writes A Book: Everything Old Is New Again http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2009/08/30/robin-writes-a-book-everything-old-is-new-again/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lawrenceez http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2009/08/30/robin-writes-a-book-everything-old-is-new-again/#comment-54620 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:21:29 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=1493#comment-54620 Hi Eoin,

This looks like a really interesting blog (saw just your post on the Writers and Artists webblog). I’m fascinated by the Internet and publishing , and have self-published an online CD of my piano playing.

]]> By: Ellan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2009/08/30/robin-writes-a-book-everything-old-is-new-again/#comment-54616 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:55:08 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=1493#comment-54616 Wow. The future of books IS exciting! What I keep hearing, in Robin’s video, in many blogs, but what is not often explicitly said, is that the market for books is much larger than what we acknowledge. I used to go to a book store to discover new authors, to be inspired to learn new endeavors. I don’t anymore. I don’t go to bookstores. I use the internet to select books to read. I buy books through the internet. I don’t want to read the top 10 books of the year. I don’t want to read the top 100 authors. They do not interest me. I can find books that interest me on-line. I am probably the only person in my city with my particular interests, but there is another person in another city, and another person in another city… Because a book is not a best seller and therefore is not where the publisher makes their profit does not equate to all the non best sellers are not best sellers because people do not want to read them. By it’s very definition not all books can be best sellers. There are books that have been written that I have pre-ordered that a publisher has decided not to print because of a prediction of sales not to a number they want. That does not mean the market does not exist. It means the publisher can not publish the book at a price point for their profit. We seem to keep skirting the issue that the quality of the book is not the issue, the market for the book is not the issue, it is the profit. Today, as pointed out by Robin, there are exciting new options and methods for acquiring profit from books. This can mean more books, more authors, more happy readers. I miss going to bookstores, and there is this one book that had it’s print canceled that I will probably be irked about forever.

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