You have a useless, worthless web site...I tried for ten minutes to order some soap and never could get the order accepted. You losers, why have a web site and a lousy, unusable program...fire your programmers, they are fools, Carl
Carl,
Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback. I will make sure my web guy knows about the issues. If you still want to order soap, please simply reply to this email with a list of your choices, and I will let you know where you can send a check. Will that work for you?
Ironic photo by Wonderlane. Used with permission.Publishers are floundering with the old model, and need to make money. Eliminating the advance is a big thing, and I believe it will be better for everyone involved.
Yes, the writer will have to write more on spec. However, like other self-publishers, all of my writing is on spec, and I have to do all the marketing, etc. to sell my books. Marketing and advertising and all of that is expensive. Many big publishers don’t want to pay for the marketing, either. Authors are left to do it.
So, if we are doing most of the work, anyway, and doing it on our own dime, anyway, why not publish ourselves?
I’m glad to see someone mention cookbooks as ebooks–I am waiting for this revolution. Both of my books are ebooks right now, and as yet may or may not make it to print. Ebooks are very profitable, on a small scale. All of a person’s recipes can be in a central location, and can also be printed out as necessary. Slopped sauce all over your recipe? No problem. People still want to hold, pore over, and caress a huge, heavily-photographed cookbook. I know I do.
But aren’t ebooks the practical side?
It seems that I was thinking about the Craft e-Revolution over a year ago. Have your blog comments ever come back to haunt you?
My family would purchase our Christmas cookies from Irene Sedlacek (pronounced said-luh-check) in my mom's hometown. Irene would make hundreds of dozens of cookies every holiday season, and sell them, to make some money.
Her cookies: sour cream sugar cookies, with frosting and sprinkles. Shapes: Trees, plain circles, stars, and something else I can't remember. The cookies froze beautifully.
Irene died a few years ago, at an advanced age (I'm guessing she was well over 90). Her daughter was besieged with condolences, and after a mannerly waiting period, she was besieged with requests for Irene's cookie recipe. It seems that many of us just couldn't have Christmas without Irene's cookies, and now we realized we would have to make them ourselves!
And of course, Irene's recipe was mostly in her head! Her daughter regretfully told us all that, and said if she found it somewhere, she would be sure to let us know. Lo and behold, she did find it, and my mother sent me the recipe out of the blue, through old-fashioned mail, on an old-fashioned paper recipe card, handwritten. Seems very quaint, nowadays. And dang, those cookies are awesome. They are a new tradition for my daughter and me--making roll-out sugar cookies.
2 cups sugar
2 sticks butter
2 eggs
8 oz sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1 T. cream of tartar
400 degrees, 9-10 minutes
(That's all you get. The recipe presumes you know how and when and why to combine things when you do. I love that about old recipes!)
Photo by ulterior epicure. Used with permission.
Photo by Sarabbit. Used with permission.What does the rise of eBooks mean for Publishing?
That’s a tough question. There will be lots of changes as the shift from physical books to ebooks intensifies.
Here are a few things it might mean -
- We’re either in the middle of, or at the beginning of a huge tipping point – either Holiday Season 2009 or the year of 2010. By end 2010 ebook sales ought to be 10-20% of total sales.
- Publishers need to start figuring out how to survive on $7-$8 per ebook sale.
- Publishers should have a contingency strategy in case their take on ebooks falls to $4-$5 per ebook.
- A huge opportunity for new companies to become successful publishers.
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This little cutie will be tricking and treating this evening. Her makeup is my interpretation of a butterfly's face. It's hard to see, but there's purple glitter on there, as well. Tonight we are joining her friend in their neighborhood, while my husband stays at our house to hand out candy for a while. We will then meet up at our friend's house so the kids can gorge on candy and we will have some beverages. Yay, Halloween!
Today I was shocked out of my two-snow-day torpor by my daughter bursting into the house and saying, "Mama! Come quick! The windshield broke!" My husband had taken her out of the house so I could get some publishing work done, so I was surprised to see her at all. Apparently, they had got as far as down the block, when the back window (not the windshield) shattered for no reason.
No reason! Can you imagine it? Driving down the street when HUGE POP and then KSHHHH! and glass falling down onto the back seat.
My daughter was crying from the shock of it. I got on the phone to the glass people and made an appointment. My actual windshield had huge cracks in it, and this happening made me ask for a deal if they would replace both. I have to go in tomorrow for the windshield in the front, but the back one is now replaced.
While I was waiting for the glass shop to do their magic, I walked down the street to occupy myself. I bought that awesome Doors lighter and incense at the used CD store, and also went to the metaphysical book store and had an "intuitive reading." Her thoughts were interesting, and relatively intuitive. Does anybody else think it's funny that they don't call them "psychic" readings anymore?
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