Publishing and Marketing = Money?
I had a grand old debate with my writing friends over dinner, and I’ll paraphrase: (leaving out the commenting about a really great and fabulous meal, and get to the real stuff)
— publishing and book and marketing the book correctly will make more than your advance: Most of us agreed with said statement, however the one person who has more experience marketing pointed out this wasn’t the case, since you might spend MORE marketing than you would getting a profit.
— publishing online and getting the book on amazon is a great start but in Canada it’s also nice to get it on Chapters, which while not as big as amazon has the market up here… for now. All of us agreed with said statement, the more you see it the more likely you will have people buy it.
— publishing is easy, but marketing cost money. This was the big one it divided us. I’ll tell you where I stood, publishing is easy, but marketing may not cost money, sometimes there is such as thing as free marketing in the style of book reviews, and contests.
Speaking of contests: I’ll be getting some books in multiples, and once a month have a book contest on this site. So at the end of this month, I’ll be featuring a book I’ve reviewed and show the review again along with the contest. So…
Question of the day: does publishing and marketing a book= money?
7 Comments
James
No it doesn't because sometimes people think of one or the other. marketing also doesn't mean you'll make any money.
Rebecca
hi james– welcome back and yes it doesn't mean you will make money but a bit of marketing means you might.
Christy Pinheiro, EA ABA
Sure Rebecca; feel free to ue my book in a contest. If you need additional copies, let me know.
Rebecca
Christy definately. Hoep this will make you proud!
JS
Depends on the content you are trying to market and its readers, along with how and by whom the content is published and how well.
Barbara
I know that this sounds like a rather dullard comment. I confess that I don't know much of anything about publishing books. But I thought that the publishers did all the marketing for you.
Rebecca
JS thanks for the comment.
Barbara— I have your answer up on my next post. but generally from what I understand the answer is no.