>Date: Wed, 15 Apr 98 15:44:25 BST
>From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Book Trade
>Address: 69 Hillcrest Drive, Bath, Somerset, BA2 1HD
>Phone: 01225-427104
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Home_page: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc
>Status: U
>
>I have been publishing the occasional book since 1985 and the
>only way to sell is by mail order. Trudging round the bookshops
>trying to sell the casual 2-3 copies can be hearbreaking.
>Books sell better when you get a higher profile thru reviews
>or poems published, but it really makes little difference.
>The books I sell are an extra for me as most copies get piped
>off to friends, relatives etc gratis. That is the only practical
>way to handle it. If you havent got bookshop distribution you
>wont sell many copies. And I have never sold
>a copy from my WEbspace although all the books can be read there
>although I have had many requests for free copies.
>
>REgarding price I charge a realistic amount for my books which
>is very much in line with bookshop prices. But I use an expensive
>printer and allow 34% to the shop. So I think Peter is a little
>inaccurate here in saying prices in the bookshops are too expensive.
>
>And regarding my experience on the Web I would say that readers
>are usually not poets, as poets prefer to dwell on their own work.
>This is a great pity. The one vital lesson to young poets
>is to read absolutely everything, however unappetising.
>
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