Monday, April 25, 2011

Buy My Book!

Joe Konrath is selling 500,000 copies. I'm selling 5. What's wrong with this picture?

10 comments:

Scott Cupp said...

I bought one of the 5

Tom Roberts said...

I like your subtlety in the post's title.

Sorry to say I have not bought a copy. But then again, I do not own a kindle. Suppose I am getting to be in the minority realm with that declaration.

You need a gimmick. Or a sales pitch direction, barking from the street corner. Maybe drive around with a looped recording blaring from a speaker on the car's rooftop like old-time politicians with their colorful banners on the car's sides.

Are you offering a signed edition with each sale? That would do it I am sure.

Hope sales accelerate.

Tom

Dan said...

Not to rub it in, but my sales number in the dozens

Ed Gorman said...

I'm thinking of hawking my books door to door. And bringing a banjo along.

mybillcrider said...

Ditch the banjo.

Anonymous said...

The second I get a Kindle (if that should ever happen) I will buy a copy, promise.

I like the banjo idea.

Jeff

Steven said...

Just to say that you don't need a Kindle to rad Kindle books - you need a computer. You download the free app at Amazon. It takes seconds. Then you can even read in color. Make this known, Bill...

Steven said...

Or even to "read" Kindle books...

RJR said...

If ANYONE was selling 500,000 copies mainstream publishing would not have dropped them.

RJR

Cap'n Bob said...

I bought one and finished it last night. Fun book and fairly-plotted mystery.