Soliciting subscribers, or "pre-selling" as you call it, is hardly "a model so far ahead of everyone else"; it's the way the publication of many books were funded in the late 17th and 18th century. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
Dan Colman
· 3 months ago
Or as they said during those days: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, kind of, sort of...
Seth Harwood
· 3 months ago
Blake- Good point! But if we look at the landscape of publishing today, we largely see two models. The standard is to put up a big investment (risk) to print a large number of copies you're hoping to sell, and Print On Demand, which reduces your risk, but raises your cost per book. So compared to these, the solicitation of subscribers looks like a great new movement! On the other hand, you're totally right about nothing new under the sun. To put it in a less French way than Dan did, I guess we're going "Back to the Future!"
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So compared to these, the solicitation of subscribers looks like a great new movement!
On the other hand, you're totally right about nothing new under the sun.
To put it in a less French way than Dan did, I guess we're going "Back to the Future!"