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Reader Project- Calling all readers!!

Started by LeatherZebra, May 29, 2008, 10:07:47 PM

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So while I was reading Publisher's Lunch today it struck me how very clueless publishers seem to be on why readers do or don't buy. So all you readers out there, why don't we help them?

For the next (however long it takes for me to get bored) I'll be keeping a monthly list of the books and magazines I buy and why (I'll also include any free books I download). I already keep a list of the books I read (and I review most of them as well), so I don't see this being much different.

However, I also want to offer up my blog as a forum and myself as an organizer. If you want to participate you can do so in one of two ways:

1. Send me an email at sicacaelestasATinsightbbDOTcom (with spam guards removed) and on the first of every month I'll send you the questionnaire below. Fill it out and send it back and I'll post it on my blog either anonymously or contributed to you (your choice).

or

2. Keep your own list and post it on your own web/blog/myspace/facebook/whatever. Please do send me a link though so that I can include your information.

You don't have to have read the books you bought to include them. This is just about your buying habits. Why you bought the book can be anything from "It was recommended to me" to "I liked the cover" to "I needed to qualify for free shipping" or even "The author is a friend and I want to support them". Be honest, even if it's a negative reason.


The form I'll be using for now is below.

Name:
Contact Email:
Month:

What books did you buy this month? Why did you buy them?


Did you download any free books this month? Why did you chose to download them and where did you download them from (author web site, publisher web site, bit torrent site)?



If you chose to participate thank you in advance and feel free to pass this call on to other readers who might be interested in participating.
"Writing a story isn't easy. It's like vomitting. Violent and uncontrollable, it builds on you until it just explodes. You don't always want to do it, but it happens anyway. Like Vomit." ~Michele Lee

bintarab

Michele, are you on Bibliophilia? If so, you should post this idea there too -- if not, I can post it for you. I think a couple of people there might be interested.

~bint

Ed

Great idea :afro: I probably don't buy enough to make it worthwhile me taking part - I bought most of what I'm reading months ago and I'm still trying to clear the backlog. I 'won' a free subscription to Apex the other day, which I'm looking forward to reading, but I still haven't finished the issue of Postscripts I bought a couple of months ago. So many titles, so little reading time. :/
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

delboy

Same with me, I'm a terrible consumer of literature from a purchasing point of view. If everyone was like me there'd be about one bookshop in the world. I have a backlog of about a fifty books that I've bought over the last ten years (mostly second hand or bargain bin specials), and about another hundred that I'm looking forward to rereading. I daresay I'll end up buying a few more this year, but they're likely to be mid twentieth century classics, not anything recently released.

Derek
"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."

Robert B. Parker