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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 20, 2020 21:51:32 GMT
I was just looking at the new Picard prequel book and in the front matter they've got an invitation to sign up for their email list to get a free book. I can't remember seeing that from a trad book before. Looks like they are learning from us indies.
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Post by writeway on Feb 21, 2020 9:04:54 GMT
I've seen it in trade books many times. I used to be published with Simon and Schuster by the way. I can't remember if I saw it in their books before but I do know I've seen it in quite a few trade books for some years now. Before KDP took off there were the e-publishers as I am sure many remember and many of the old erotica and romance e-pubs used to do this all the time, offer a free book if you sign up for their mailing lists. I'd wager indies got the idea from them because a lot of stuff indies do, they get from trade pubs. For example, putting samples of upcoming books in other books in the same series, publishers have always done this.
Do you know (or remember) Siren Publishing? At one while they used to do the free book if you sign up to their mailing list thing. It seemed to be mainly erotic/erotica romance pubs that did it.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 24, 2020 1:22:03 GMT
I've seen it in trade books many times. I used to be published with Simon and Schuster by the way. I can't remember if I saw it in their books before but I do know I've seen it in quite a few trade books for some years now. Before KDP took off there were the e-publishers as I am sure many remember and many of the old erotica and romance e-pubs used to do this all the time, offer a free book if you sign up for their mailing lists. I'd wager indies got the idea from them because a lot of stuff indies do, they get from trade pubs. For example, putting samples of upcoming books in other books in the same series, publishers have always done this. Do you know (or remember) Siren Publishing? At one while they used to do the free book if you sign up to their mailing list thing. It seemed to be mainly erotic/erotica romance pubs that did it. That makes sense. It just wasn't something I'd noticed before. I only learned about arcs and mailing lists after I became indie, so it felt like we invented it. *teehee* Watch, now I will notice it right away in every book I read.  I've heard of the name, but I don't think I've read any. Didn't Harlequin used to do something similar? I know they had a mail order club. My grandma used to have stacks of those books. I wonder what happened to all of them after she passed? I remember old dtd's sometimes coming with subscription cards, like magazines did. But I never really looked at them. And I just got rid of pretty much all of my paper books a few months ago because we're moving again, and I got tired of carting them around. Ebooks are sooo much easier to carry. I will pay more attention when reading an ebook now to see if it has that. I can be blind sometimes. |
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