Subscription Sales

Sorry, no cute graphic to accompany posts until Blogger.com restores function to its "Add Image" feature, or I have more endurance to FTP them to my server. Imagine a stack of books to the right.

Once again agent Richard Curtis expounds on the future of the printed book at Backspace.com in an article titled THE SUBSCRIPTION REVOLUTION

Once the Random Houses of the world see the profitability inherent in the subscription/print-on-demand model, if they're smart -- a condition we cannot always take for granted -- but if they're smart, they'll realize they can do it themselves.

Did you ever notice that Amazon ranks books that have not yet been published? Curtis explains this phenomenon and delves into the book industry, what's wrong with it and how it can be fixed.

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