it's something i've been hammering away at in this essay. Mockingbird should've gotten a cross promo effort with cain's publisher, S&S
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Replying to @spacetwinks @chaosprime
like you have an NYT best seller, you want her fucking readers, right? that's why you hire an NYT best seller, right?
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the only publisher that i get a vague feeling has some kind of handle on this is First Second, they seem to be doing *something*
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but to everybody else the idea of reaching out to the kind of person who'd like your book seems to be asking a fish to design jet engines
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i guess because too many of them already hate the idea of someone who doesn't want to live in a comic shop stepping into one
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given brevoort and others comments on "you have to buy the books", i think a lot of it is resentment that they have to do anything
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readers should give them money and they shouldn't change a thing. like, dude
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and again, you can't blame readers for low DM sales of diverse books when the vast majority of readers don't know about the pre-order system
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if marvel wants to up their sales of pre-existing readers, they should be doing an ongoing campaign to explain and simplify that shit
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i wonder if there's any way to get an API onto Comixology's pull list system besides offering to write the damn thing for free myself
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getting data out of that thing is fucking dire
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