Thanks to Steve Jacobs’ prodding, I got new boots finally. They felt great today. Looking forward to getting them broken in.
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Just for laughs I checked out the new kindle sales on Amazon UK: 2546 very positive reviews since October 2011, with a lot of them in February. It looks like ebooks are picking up momentum over there.
That’s awesome news about Ravenwood! I hope it triggers an unbearable need to finish book 2 and get it out there for all of those 11,000+ people to purchase.
It sounds like your therapist gave you some great advice. It didn’t seem right to me for you to be pursuing in-store sales. I don’t think there is any hope for big publishers to get their act together and I’d hate to see you give up what could be a significant portion of your future sales for a small amount now.
Great news on Ravenwood. Was that 11k the US Amazon? If so, how did the UK do?
As for the big publisher…. and, of course, take this as my unqualified opinion… No way I’d be signing over the UK. If it was for non-english language markets only then maybe it’d be interesting…maybe. I don’t know if you ever plan to tackle those markets but you can do just fine in the UK on your own. They might put you in bookshops, but they’ll take a lot for what little they give you back. Especially if it’s a big like Harper, who are still playing by the old rules and seem to have no real grasp of how the market is going here.
You can do better on your own, it may just take a little longer…. Just my 2p 🙂
Yes, 11k in Amazon US. Amazon UK picked up 150 copies which is about 30x the number of sales I had there before. 🙂
And I’m thinking the advice is probably sound. 🙂
I hadn’t thought about it – but yeah, if it’s the UK itself – don’t bother. You don’t want a debacle like Scholastic, who “translated” the Philosopher’s Stone to the Sorcerer’s Stone. I could have given them any number of other translations, though I don’t really think they would have been needed, but SORCERER’S STONE from the well-known Philosopher’s Stone? Never!
Honestly, if you did feel a need to do a “British” translation – a number of “BritPick” resources for Harry Potter fanfiction writers have appeared, and would most likely provide any information you might need. [The only thing that comes to mind might be relating to pants (UK) being underwear (US), and maybe Sweaters/Jumpers.] I don’t think you even called the cargo lifter in the Iris an elevator – I think you called it a lift, which would be appropriate British…
Oh, and you’d need to sprinkle in some extra u’s in a few words. Oh, well. Set your spell checker to British English and it’ll let you know.
Yeah, other than the missing U here and there and the Z instead of S thing there isn’t anything to do for a brit translation. We also use underwear, elevator, etc all the time. For English speakers, the books are fine, no need to regionalise them. To this day I can’t understand why the potter books needed altering for the us market, or is it just the remake stuff habit?
Just plain Greed !
They felt they could make more money from USA rights with language changes for the first movie their is actually 2 versions of first movie one for the UK and another for the US and they are different
Wow… 2 different versions? I’d always assumed that some exec somewhere who hadn’t even looked at the first page of the book had decided that ‘sorcerer’ sounded more magical and would ‘track’ better with the ‘young people’ 😛
Knowing our luck they’d mess it up for the uk and do something silly like calling the first solar clipper book ’25p Share’ 😀
Yay for new boots! I hope they didn’t give you blisters, and if they did that they break in really quickly!
P.S. That’s not quite the spelling of my name. 🙂