Marketing research!
Feb. 9th, 2011 02:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThe Gift of the Bad Guy is the first installment in The Gifters Saga, and also the first e-book I'm going to be publishing under a new imprint using a new combination of marketing concepts I've been putting together. It's a small book of a bit under one hundred pages, it will be available in both PDF and EPUB, and it will carry a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. My current plans are to launch the book on March 14th. There are some details I need to iron out between now and then, and participating in this survey will help me do so.
Please note that the "would like to know more" choices refer specifically to "before making up my mind to buy it." If you're already mostly sure you're going to buy it but this has not blunted your desire to know more, please choose the result that signifies your willingness to purchase.
[Poll #1679177]
You can find more information (including a teaser snippet) by checking out the tag I created for the story.
To explain the concept mentioned in the third question: I've hit upon the idea of an "Author Appreciation Edition" to standardize the process for people who wish to give a little bit more, and also give them some recognition. Each AAE would include a personalized acknowledgment up front (your name and my thank-you, or someone else's name and a custom dedication if it's a gift) and would be individually numbered. The numbers would be for ego purposes, so you know where you were in line. As a DRM-free electronic document, your copy would be as unique or as ubiquitous as you want it to be.
Copies of the book sold after an AAE are purchased would include the buyer's name in a list of credits at the back, save for purchasers who wish to remain anonymous. This might not apply to copies of the books purchased through other venues/stores. I'll have to see how easy it is to update the manuscript in those cases.
If there's sufficient interest in this plan for me to actually do the AAE copies, there will be a pre-order period for them. People who pre-order will have the certainty that their names will appear in every copy in existence.
Feel free to use the comments of this post to give more specific feedback.
Please note that the "would like to know more" choices refer specifically to "before making up my mind to buy it." If you're already mostly sure you're going to buy it but this has not blunted your desire to know more, please choose the result that signifies your willingness to purchase.
[Poll #1679177]
You can find more information (including a teaser snippet) by checking out the tag I created for the story.
To explain the concept mentioned in the third question: I've hit upon the idea of an "Author Appreciation Edition" to standardize the process for people who wish to give a little bit more, and also give them some recognition. Each AAE would include a personalized acknowledgment up front (your name and my thank-you, or someone else's name and a custom dedication if it's a gift) and would be individually numbered. The numbers would be for ego purposes, so you know where you were in line. As a DRM-free electronic document, your copy would be as unique or as ubiquitous as you want it to be.
Copies of the book sold after an AAE are purchased would include the buyer's name in a list of credits at the back, save for purchasers who wish to remain anonymous. This might not apply to copies of the books purchased through other venues/stores. I'll have to see how easy it is to update the manuscript in those cases.
If there's sufficient interest in this plan for me to actually do the AAE copies, there will be a pre-order period for them. People who pre-order will have the certainty that their names will appear in every copy in existence.
Feel free to use the comments of this post to give more specific feedback.