Charles, that breakdown on the books is certainly
illuminating. I would add that HC has made the "book club"
option available for those who wish to pay a little less for
the books. I myself haven't joined it but am going to, and in
the meantime am buying up the books you've already done as
fast as I can. They're so excellent! (I know that isn't
correct grammar, but it conveys very well).
Given the insane costs of practically everything, from gas to
a gallon of milk, a $7 paperback nowadays does, to me, come
across as reasonable. What you *have* done, in terms of
increasing your market as much as possible, is (a) offer a
product at the lower price end of that type product which is
(b) such a gorgeous package that I, and I assume many like
me, aren't willing to wait and hope we see it somewhere used,
or get it from Amazon later used. For any readers w/ even the
teeniest compulsive book-buying habits :-), these are just
irresistible.
Anyway, thanks.
Don
--- Curt Purcell <
curtpurcell@hotmail.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "hardcasecrime"
> <editor@...> wrote:
> >
> > The kind of
> > mystery novels we love might sell 5,000 copies
or
> 15,000 or maybe
> > even 50,000, but not 500,000 and definitely
not
> millions. Back in
> > the Gold Medal days, you could reliably
sell
> 100,000 copies of any
> > book you printed -- but those days are long
gone.
> >
> > How many Hard Case Crime books have sold
20,000
> > copies or more? Not many. Not zero -- but a
very
> small minority.
> > And this is in spite of *outstanding*
distribution
> (we're in Barnes &
> > Noble, we're in Borders, we're in hundreds
of
> independent bookstores,
> > we're in drugstores, we're even in
Wal-Mart,
> albeit in small
> > numbers), and outstanding reviews in every
major
> publication, and
> > lots of award nominations, and occasional
TV
> appearances, etc., etc.
>
> That's pretty depressing. I think I've seen
you
> mention before,
> Charles, that one or both of your Aleas entries
is
> in development for
> a movie adaptation? Any other Hard Case
originals
> in line for similar
> treatment? What kind of boost do you think
those
> books in particular
> and Hard Case in general might get out of
it?
> Anyway, I sure
> appreciate what you're doing. I've reviewed a
few
> HC's on my blog,
> with more to come, and make a point of spreading
my
> purchases around
> to different retailers, in the hopes that
they'll
> all continue to
> carry them.
>
>
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