Amazon Ads

NorioDS · 2008-08-12T22:12:04+00:00

Hey peeps ? In my never-ending quest to get this forum to make money so we can do REALLY cool stuff (like our own version of Guitar Idol!), I've added Amazon Ads to the site. Check them out once in a while and buy something ? That is all. *waves* Norio

NorioDS

Man that recording book / DVD would go down well with me!

I can imagine it will take a few years to write though! Unless you only focus on typical band setup.

Renesongs

I did, however, see a copy in my local municipal library today.

AFAIK - which about publishing is not much, When you publish in SA you have to donate copies to a library in each province. This caused a bit of a problem a few years ago when an SA artist published a book containing limited prints each book was worth a few grand.

AlanRatcliffe

Whew! Thanks for the support guys.

I'm just going to keep on writing. Books come and go, they sell a bunch when they are first released, then settle down to a steady but much lower rate and eventually taper off and go out of print. So the key to making a living doing it is to build up a catalogue of books at various stages of the process, adding in new ones at the one end while the older ones are petering out at the other - which is difficult to do while you're still forced to make a living. The magazine market locally is too small for me to supplement my income that way either.

Other books have covered the recording process, do it well and the competition is stiff - In reality, what chances does a book along those lines written by myself have against such august luminaries as Paul White, Craig Anderton, et.al.?

Focusing on a local angle and further reducing the audience by aiming it squarely at guitarists is unfortunately not the way to go. While the basic idea is right - finding a niche market that hasn't been covered yet - that particular market is way too small. I have a few plans afoot though.

Libraries are a good thing. While it lets people read your book for free (and the copies sold to libraries are sold so cheaply that there isn't even any money in selling to a library), it is in a way free advertising. I feel that if your book is good enough, people will still want their own copy around anyway, even if they read it first at a library. Even if they don't buy their own copy of that book, it promotes your name, so that they are more likely to buy another book of yours when they see it in a store.

Riaan-Combrink

Alan Ratcliffe wrote Libraries are a good thing. While it lets people read your book for free (and the copies sold to libraries are sold so cheaply that there isn't even any money in selling to a library), it is in a way free advertising. I feel that if your book is good enough, people will still want their own copy around anyway, even if they read it first at a library. Even if they don't buy their own copy of that book, it promotes your name, so that they are more likely to buy another book of yours when they see it in a store.

Point taken. More so with reference books that are intended to have a shelf life of more than one read (as opposed to fiction). Those damn library fines are just hectic when I'm trying to mod my guitar and my loan period runs out!!! ?

Riaan C

Renesongs

Alan - I was looking through some of my technical specs that I've downloaded over the years - One of them was called "Hot-rodding your Strat" The section - "Tone Control on the Bridge Pickup" was so well illustrated and easy that I executed said Hot-rodding last year with very pleasing results. I therefore feel morally compelled to buy your next book, when it's published ,knowing that it was composed by a fellow musician and not some greedy American Capitalist ?

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