I just watched Italy beating Germany in the World Cup. That’s about as head of tail experience as we’ll probably have this year. What’s the global audience for that game? Big.
But, today I’m reading Chris Anderson’s new book, the Long Tail. Chris sent me a signed copy and said good luck on my new venture. So, this post was bought and paid for. I’ll give this book away too, probably at BlogHer later this month.
It was a good book for me to read at this point in my life (I just finished it, interesting read).
I’ve experienced many of his points first hand, so the book really reasonated with me. Even my own book, which is hovering around 2,400 on Amazon’s best seller list makes that point. That’s not bad, right? After all there’s millions of books.
But, that only garners a few hundred sales a month. Yes, it’s glorious but we’re not getting rich.
Turns out that the only ones who do very well in the book business are those in the head of the tail. That’s the first 100 books and, really, the first 10 books.
That said, what Chris points out in his book is that Amazon is doing pretty darn well off of books like mine. Why? Because of the aggregate of millions of books most will sell at least a few (he shows that even deep into the tail books and music still sell a few copies). The authors don’t get rich. But if you build the right kind of business you can gather a lot of value.
So, as I head into the content business I’m thinking a lot. What’s valuable today? Owning a Google keyword.
Let’s practice this and brainstorm some more about what this means for podcasting.
What opportunities are there for podcasting? Well, how about travel? Let’s pick a specific city. My favorite is Paris. How many people will fly to Paris today from all over the world? Let’s say it’s 5,000. First of all, that tells you something. It’s a micro audience.
Second, of those 5,000, how many are tourists? I’d guess 10% (the rest live there, or are going there to do business, or are regular visitors so don’t really apply to what I’m thinking here).
OK, now, why are tourists interesting podcasting consumers? Well, for one, regular media can’t reach them efficiently. Most airplanes have video screens now, but only a few channels that are recorded in advance. Only a couple of lame radio stations, also recorded in advance. JetBlue has DirectTV, true, but how many JetBlue planes go to Paris? Not many.
That leaves us with the folks who have iPods or Creative Zens or other portable media players. Some computer users too, but a 10-hour-flight isn’t exactly good for computer users cause your batteries will die.
Now, what kind of content might a tourist heading toward Paris need?
1) Overview of the city.
2) Tour of each top tourist destination. (Paris has at least 10 things you MUST see).
3) Some language skills (how to read a French menu, or how to ask for a bathroom).
4) History of each section of the city.
5) Shopping guide.
6) Restaurant guide.
7) Granular guides to subsets of the tourist destinations (there could be a video podcast on the Impressionist room at the Musee d’Orsay, for instance).
So, let’s go to Google and do a search for “Travel to Paris podcast.” Why? Cause you know that podcasts are audio shows you can put on your iPod. Your iPod has 60GB. I was asking around Gnomedex how much people had on their iPods. The average answer was 2 to 9 GB. That leaves 50GB free.
Hell, if I had an iPod and was going to Paris, and all the above were available, I’d download that AND tons of other stuff.
But it isn’t available yet. Look at the Google results, there are SOME but not many podcasts about Paris and the ones that are there aren’t ranked, put in a directory, or made easy to download and put on your iPod.
Now, there are SOME podcasts available for Paris, but not many. And if Paris doesn’t have many there’s no hope for Shanghai or Tokyo or San Francisco or Las Vegas or Moscow or London or Cape Town.
That’s where the power of the Internet will come in.
It’ll be someone who can connect subject area experts in each city (the best ones are gonna come from the Amatuer podcasting ranks, not from the pro ranks like Rick Steves, who has an awesome PBS series on traveling to Europe).
Maybe Rick will be able to do it, but I doubt it — he’d have to see the value in working with amateurs who might not have the best video or audio equipment or production values. I have a feeling it’ll be a new kind of business produced by the word-of-mouth network itself (you, if you haven’t figured that out yet).
Could we do a Travel Podcast Wiki? That might be very interesting. I wonder if Chris Pirillo and Rick Segal’s community funding ideas might help us all make a few dollars a day off of the long tail?
Oh, and don’t you DARE think there’s no money in this concept.
Restaurants, hotels, entertainment shows, and more would LOVE to spend some targetted advertising dollars on this stuff.
Anyway, there’s a lot of opportunity left in the Long Tail yet to come. Buy the Long Tail, dream a little, and blog your ideas.
Wasn’t really a community funding exercise, but… I think I got out of it what I needed to get out of it. 🙂
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Wasn’t really a community funding exercise, but… I think I got out of it what I needed to get out of it. 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more about the lack of travel related podcasts out there. There are a few out there. More will come, when we all get really easy solid tools built on stable solid distribution formats.
I also think ‘linguacasting’ would also be great. How-to’s on speaking the local lingo.
All this stuff could be downloaded through a usb port in the back of a seat. [“Excuse me, could I have a power supply for my seat and card reader please?”]
Even if people fell asleep listening to the lessons, I’m sure people would argue that they’d still learn from them subconsciously.
😉
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I couldn’t agree more about the lack of travel related podcasts out there. There are a few out there. More will come, when we all get really easy solid tools built on stable solid distribution formats.
I also think ‘linguacasting’ would also be great. How-to’s on speaking the local lingo.
All this stuff could be downloaded through a usb port in the back of a seat. [“Excuse me, could I have a power supply for my seat and card reader please?”]
Even if people fell asleep listening to the lessons, I’m sure people would argue that they’d still learn from them subconsciously.
😉
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Try searching “Travel Guide” in the podcast section of iTunes, there’s a few. Here’s one… http://www.italyguides.it/us/italy_travel.htm
Might also try the AudioBook area.
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Also look at museum guides, there are more, kind of the same idea, professional and amatuer.
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Try searching “Travel Guide” in the podcast section of iTunes, there’s a few. Here’s one… http://www.italyguides.it/us/italy_travel.htm
Might also try the AudioBook area.
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Also look at museum guides, there are more, kind of the same idea, professional and amatuer.
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Rick Steves does have a Paris audio tour
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/travelnews/0602/audiotour.htm
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Rick Steves does have a Paris audio tour
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/travelnews/0602/audiotour.htm
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Well, lettseee, with Frommers, Fodor’s, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, VirtualTourist, travel publications, magazines, DVDs GALORE and ENTIRE Cable TV channel and TONS (mean TONS of content from that)…and you want some rambling undoubtedly unprofessional podcast?
And yet still you will have to beat my dinky local library (‘member those things?) which has around 5 Paris travel DVDs, and according to the library (cute but married) chiqlet on my IM, the travel DVD section gets a lotta use.
So podcast travels maybe for Geeks R US Travel Inc. but no one else…
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Well, lettseee, with Frommers, Fodor’s, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, VirtualTourist, travel publications, magazines, DVDs GALORE and ENTIRE Cable TV channel and TONS (mean TONS of content from that)…and you want some rambling undoubtedly unprofessional podcast?
And yet still you will have to beat my dinky local library (‘member those things?) which has around 5 Paris travel DVDs, and according to the library (cute but married) chiqlet on my IM, the travel DVD section gets a lotta use.
So podcast travels maybe for Geeks R US Travel Inc. but no one else…
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Should that be amateur, not Amatuer podcasting ranks?
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Should that be amateur, not Amatuer podcasting ranks?
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My spell checker, thanks!
Oh, Christopher, you keep ripping down my ideas. Maybe I should do one of them just cause it makes you mad. Heheh.
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My spell checker, thanks!
Oh, Christopher, you keep ripping down my ideas. Maybe I should do one of them just cause it makes you mad. Heheh.
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Quibble about numbers: if you counted all the people arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport beside Paris, there’s an average of about 72,000 people arriving a day!
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Quibble about numbers: if you counted all the people arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport beside Paris, there’s an average of about 72,000 people arriving a day!
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> And if Paris doesn’t have many there’s no hope for
> Shanghai or Tokyo or San Francisco or Las Vegas or
> Moscow or London or Cape Town.
Amusingly, Virgin Atlantic has podcasts for a variety of cities, including Shanghai, Las Vegas, London, and Cape Town… but not one for Paris yet. 🙂
http://virginatlantic.loudish.com/
Their model is also an interesting one– If they get people interested in various cities via these podcasts, they build greater demand for their airline flights.
Note: I don’t work for any Virgin companies, but I’m a raving fan of Virgin Atlantic and also created BransonBlog.com, just to disclose any biases.
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> And if Paris doesn’t have many there’s no hope for
> Shanghai or Tokyo or San Francisco or Las Vegas or
> Moscow or London or Cape Town.
Amusingly, Virgin Atlantic has podcasts for a variety of cities, including Shanghai, Las Vegas, London, and Cape Town… but not one for Paris yet. 🙂
http://virginatlantic.loudish.com/
Their model is also an interesting one– If they get people interested in various cities via these podcasts, they build greater demand for their airline flights.
Note: I don’t work for any Virgin companies, but I’m a raving fan of Virgin Atlantic and also created BransonBlog.com, just to disclose any biases.
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Life’s too short, Robert.
BTW, far more than 500 tourists fly into Paris in a day, especially this time of year — probably more than 100,000.
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Life’s too short, Robert.
BTW, far more than 500 tourists fly into Paris in a day, especially this time of year — probably more than 100,000.
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Small scale error: Paris has two major (plus a few minor) airports, and gets roughly 150 000 inbound visitors a day.
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Small scale error: Paris has two major (plus a few minor) airports, and gets roughly 150 000 inbound visitors a day.
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In cambridge UK and some other UK cities these folks do podcast walking tours http://www.tourist-tracks.com/tours/cambridge/ and video tours http://www.academy-cambscity.co.uk/
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In cambridge UK and some other UK cities these folks do podcast walking tours http://www.tourist-tracks.com/tours/cambridge/ and video tours http://www.academy-cambscity.co.uk/
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This exactly is what I was refering to at the WOMMA conference, when I mentioned location-based podcasting (right before your video interview with the video blog guys) – if you can figure out a two-tier method that would a) rank podcasts based on their quality, and b) assign a geographical tag to them, you could do what you are asking. With granular location, you could even get local events that are near to the hotel you are staying at (that’s also where the targeted ads come in).
To take this a bit further – let’s embed location data into podcasts, so that when you listen to them using location aware devices (i.e. PDAs/Smartphones with GPS), you can get the equivalent of the old cassette-based audio tours one could hire at museums.
So, your trip to Paris could include a commented tour of the Louvre, and an eating out guide that tells you what the best restaurants are within a five minute walk.
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This exactly is what I was refering to at the WOMMA conference, when I mentioned location-based podcasting (right before your video interview with the video blog guys) – if you can figure out a two-tier method that would a) rank podcasts based on their quality, and b) assign a geographical tag to them, you could do what you are asking. With granular location, you could even get local events that are near to the hotel you are staying at (that’s also where the targeted ads come in).
To take this a bit further – let’s embed location data into podcasts, so that when you listen to them using location aware devices (i.e. PDAs/Smartphones with GPS), you can get the equivalent of the old cassette-based audio tours one could hire at museums.
So, your trip to Paris could include a commented tour of the Louvre, and an eating out guide that tells you what the best restaurants are within a five minute walk.
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The Long Tail is certainly making its presence felt in business. I had heard it mentioned lots. As per usual I have not managed to read it. Instead relying on the gladwell “Blink” effect and watchng for the Gladwell “tipping point”.
I think people who are starting fledgling content business in things like Second Life are discovering the long tail principle even if they cannot articulate it.
I found my palm guide to Hong Kong (that I bought) very ueful. I hope to find my PSP talkman talking phrase book equally useful. So it seems natural that the content by experts combined ina user created content, open source thinking way would be well worth pursuing.
We have PDA’s for museum and zoo tours http://www.eternalegypt.org being an example. Now if I could help author that content as a user, how I viewed an exhibit and how people like me chose to view the exhibit it woudl save a lot of wasted time looking at things that are not of interest.
“So, as I head into the content business I’m thinking a lot. What’s valuable today? Owning a Google keyword.”
I still have dibs on mashplication (check it out on google 🙂 )
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The Long Tail is certainly making its presence felt in business. I had heard it mentioned lots. As per usual I have not managed to read it. Instead relying on the gladwell “Blink” effect and watchng for the Gladwell “tipping point”.
I think people who are starting fledgling content business in things like Second Life are discovering the long tail principle even if they cannot articulate it.
I found my palm guide to Hong Kong (that I bought) very ueful. I hope to find my PSP talkman talking phrase book equally useful. So it seems natural that the content by experts combined ina user created content, open source thinking way would be well worth pursuing.
We have PDA’s for museum and zoo tours http://www.eternalegypt.org being an example. Now if I could help author that content as a user, how I viewed an exhibit and how people like me chose to view the exhibit it woudl save a lot of wasted time looking at things that are not of interest.
“So, as I head into the content business I’m thinking a lot. What’s valuable today? Owning a Google keyword.”
I still have dibs on mashplication (check it out on google 🙂 )
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I recall a good bunch of podcasts of Edinburgh that we downloaded from their official tourism website which we used when we went there for Hogmanay this year (cold but great fun, try it!). Of course, not much info on restaurants etc – more the sights-to-see stuff.
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I recall a good bunch of podcasts of Edinburgh that we downloaded from their official tourism website which we used when we went there for Hogmanay this year (cold but great fun, try it!). Of course, not much info on restaurants etc – more the sights-to-see stuff.
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Seems like a gret idea to me. This is where the internet, podcasting, ipods all come into their own and things get exciting, at least to me. This is what it is all about! Of course it all comes down to the quality and relevance of content and how easy it is for me to access.
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Seems like a gret idea to me. This is where the internet, podcasting, ipods all come into their own and things get exciting, at least to me. This is what it is all about! Of course it all comes down to the quality and relevance of content and how easy it is for me to access.
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Scoble – Check out Brad Inman’s Turnhere.com
I think this is close to what you are talking about. Lots of great content already exists up on that site. Short films produced by local filmmakers on the neighborhoods in which they live.
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Scoble – Check out Brad Inman’s Turnhere.com
I think this is close to what you are talking about. Lots of great content already exists up on that site. Short films produced by local filmmakers on the neighborhoods in which they live.
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I could see where this might work for “the lonely traveller” but not sure how effective it would be for couples or families. “So, what are they saying, dear?” “Hang on, I missed what they said cuz you were talking. Now I have to rewind…” or “Which part are you on? I’m at the part where the guy is talking about Notre Dame..”. Sheesh. I still think maps and books are a more preferred format for travellers. They are more easily referencable. “Podcasts” might work for walking tours, but don’t most museums have those types of things already? I dunno. Not sure what problem this would be solving that isn’t already being solved by the plethora of content choices out there already. What is the unique thing about this idea other than it’s a “podcast”. Seems like another: “I have a hammer so the whole world is a nail” idea. Yea maybe you get updated content. But, I don’t see how this would be a great experience for anyone but the lonely traveller.
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I could see where this might work for “the lonely traveller” but not sure how effective it would be for couples or families. “So, what are they saying, dear?” “Hang on, I missed what they said cuz you were talking. Now I have to rewind…” or “Which part are you on? I’m at the part where the guy is talking about Notre Dame..”. Sheesh. I still think maps and books are a more preferred format for travellers. They are more easily referencable. “Podcasts” might work for walking tours, but don’t most museums have those types of things already? I dunno. Not sure what problem this would be solving that isn’t already being solved by the plethora of content choices out there already. What is the unique thing about this idea other than it’s a “podcast”. Seems like another: “I have a hammer so the whole world is a nail” idea. Yea maybe you get updated content. But, I don’t see how this would be a great experience for anyone but the lonely traveller.
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Dmad:
Google “holidays for single travellers” brings up 3.89 million results…maybe a market there 🙂 I know this is wrong top-down thinking, but it’s there.
I agree with you partly regarding family trips; there would be times when you could just say “hold on, darling, let me check the podcast to see where we can go eat”. As for the particular case of tour guides, most museums have them, yes, some on cassette tape, others more sophisticated on CD (like the Louvre, now that we’re at it) – but they are not convenient in that tapes force you to follow an itinerary, and you end up forwarding and rewinding all the time, with CDs you could have some form of track-to-section guide, but still is not as convenient as walking by something and your player automatically jumping to the right content.
Cheers,
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Dmad:
Google “holidays for single travellers” brings up 3.89 million results…maybe a market there 🙂 I know this is wrong top-down thinking, but it’s there.
I agree with you partly regarding family trips; there would be times when you could just say “hold on, darling, let me check the podcast to see where we can go eat”. As for the particular case of tour guides, most museums have them, yes, some on cassette tape, others more sophisticated on CD (like the Louvre, now that we’re at it) – but they are not convenient in that tapes force you to follow an itinerary, and you end up forwarding and rewinding all the time, with CDs you could have some form of track-to-section guide, but still is not as convenient as walking by something and your player automatically jumping to the right content.
Cheers,
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The idea of doing Turnhere.com style videos is interesting, and it would be nice to see more “off the beaten path” locations which would be so long tailish. Perhaps small town governments or chambers would foot the bill as a tourism out reach. Anyway, the Turnhere commericals could be expanded out to all the amazing historical and culturally significant locations that exist in the same locales. While it’s trivial to find information about Paris, it’s for more challenging to find information about Ocean Beach, CA. or current information about New Orleans.
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The idea of doing Turnhere.com style videos is interesting, and it would be nice to see more “off the beaten path” locations which would be so long tailish. Perhaps small town governments or chambers would foot the bill as a tourism out reach. Anyway, the Turnhere commericals could be expanded out to all the amazing historical and culturally significant locations that exist in the same locales. While it’s trivial to find information about Paris, it’s for more challenging to find information about Ocean Beach, CA. or current information about New Orleans.
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“I have a hammer so the whole world is a nail” idea
Which is exactly the brainwave pattern of Scoble and most of Silicon Valley…which is why, when it comes down to the end, just alotta hot air talk, and no action.
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“I have a hammer so the whole world is a nail” idea
Which is exactly the brainwave pattern of Scoble and most of Silicon Valley…which is why, when it comes down to the end, just alotta hot air talk, and no action.
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Hi Robert,
Great post.
Funny, we just started a videoblog about travel!
scourist.com : daily travel video.
JON.
scourist.com
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Hi Robert,
Great post.
Funny, we just started a videoblog about travel!
scourist.com : daily travel video.
JON.
scourist.com
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@22. I’m not saying there isn’t an opportunity here. Agreed there is a considerable market of single travelers to be potentially tapped. I would be curious how many those single travelers are in the market for this type of content over books, travel guides and the like. One issue I have with this idea of taking podcasting more broadly is has there been any market research done to see if there is even a potential market for this? Or are these podcast zealots just assuming that because they think podcasting is cool everyone else will? Maybe there is a market. I dunno. I just think we are making a lot of assumptions about the consumers that have yet to be validated beyond the echo chamber.
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@22. I’m not saying there isn’t an opportunity here. Agreed there is a considerable market of single travelers to be potentially tapped. I would be curious how many those single travelers are in the market for this type of content over books, travel guides and the like. One issue I have with this idea of taking podcasting more broadly is has there been any market research done to see if there is even a potential market for this? Or are these podcast zealots just assuming that because they think podcasting is cool everyone else will? Maybe there is a market. I dunno. I just think we are making a lot of assumptions about the consumers that have yet to be validated beyond the echo chamber.
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Ipods…
See I have this thing, I use up HD space quick. If I’d have a few TB, they would eventually fill up. I have a 40 gb Ipod and it’s almost full, maybe a few gigs free. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have other music to upload, I always do.
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Ipods…
See I have this thing, I use up HD space quick. If I’d have a few TB, they would eventually fill up. I have a 40 gb Ipod and it’s almost full, maybe a few gigs free. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have other music to upload, I always do.
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“But, that only garners a few hundred sales a month. Yes, it’s glorious but we’re not getting rich.”
But it’s still doing better that 4 million other titles on Amazon. If you had self published the book instead of going through Wiley, you’d be earning the publisher’s share rather than the author’s share. As a celebrity (yes, you’re a celebrity, I actually recognize your photograph from a session at WebmasterWorld) you have your own platform from which to sell books, it’s doubtful Wiley has much of value to add to your marketing. It’s true that the Long Tail is mainly valuable to middlemen, such as Amazon, Lightning Source and Google. But it’s also true that you can making a living selling less books, music, etc, if you remove some of the unnecessary middlemen, like the publisher:-)
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“But, that only garners a few hundred sales a month. Yes, it’s glorious but we’re not getting rich.”
But it’s still doing better that 4 million other titles on Amazon. If you had self published the book instead of going through Wiley, you’d be earning the publisher’s share rather than the author’s share. As a celebrity (yes, you’re a celebrity, I actually recognize your photograph from a session at WebmasterWorld) you have your own platform from which to sell books, it’s doubtful Wiley has much of value to add to your marketing. It’s true that the Long Tail is mainly valuable to middlemen, such as Amazon, Lightning Source and Google. But it’s also true that you can making a living selling less books, music, etc, if you remove some of the unnecessary middlemen, like the publisher:-)
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Morris: what a big book publisher gets you is distribution. I doubt we would have been featured at Barnes and Noble if we had self published, for instance.
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Morris: what a big book publisher gets you is distribution. I doubt we would have been featured at Barnes and Noble if we had self published, for instance.
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Robert,
A distributor gets you distribution, a big publisher gets you sell-in. Tim O’Reilly has written quite a bit on his blog about the low commercial success rate of new books, even with sell-in. If your book is targetted at a very wide audience, has high visibility, and isn’t in direct competition with books from publishers paying more for co-op placement, bookstore sell-in might result in a lot of sales. It might result in a lot of returns and remainders, which are death on Amazon.
Sell-in, however, has nothing to do with success on Amazon, unless you believe in the advertising effect of seeing books at stores and then returning to Amazon to buy at a discount. The decision you have to make as an author is, what percentage of your books are likely to sell through bookstore placement (over the lifetime of the book) as opposed to sales through Amazon and special order.
Since the point I was trying to make was about middlemen and the Long Tail, I’ll go back to Lightning Source, who can get your books into Amazon at a short discount. While the exact math depends on the page count and size of the book, and works better with paperbacks than hard covers, it boils down (for me) to about a 7:1 relationship. If I can sell one book self publishing for every seven books that would have been sold by a trade, I’m breaking even, without ever giving anything up. Mileage will vary, but Amazon alone probably sells more than one in seven new copies in many genres.
I don’t want to spam your blog with links, so if you’re curious about the math, feel free to e-mail me. I did sell well over 100,000 books as a trade author before I went back to self publishing, and have received trade (and distribution) offers for every book I’ve self published since, so I’m not a publishing theorist:-)
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Robert,
A distributor gets you distribution, a big publisher gets you sell-in. Tim O’Reilly has written quite a bit on his blog about the low commercial success rate of new books, even with sell-in. If your book is targetted at a very wide audience, has high visibility, and isn’t in direct competition with books from publishers paying more for co-op placement, bookstore sell-in might result in a lot of sales. It might result in a lot of returns and remainders, which are death on Amazon.
Sell-in, however, has nothing to do with success on Amazon, unless you believe in the advertising effect of seeing books at stores and then returning to Amazon to buy at a discount. The decision you have to make as an author is, what percentage of your books are likely to sell through bookstore placement (over the lifetime of the book) as opposed to sales through Amazon and special order.
Since the point I was trying to make was about middlemen and the Long Tail, I’ll go back to Lightning Source, who can get your books into Amazon at a short discount. While the exact math depends on the page count and size of the book, and works better with paperbacks than hard covers, it boils down (for me) to about a 7:1 relationship. If I can sell one book self publishing for every seven books that would have been sold by a trade, I’m breaking even, without ever giving anything up. Mileage will vary, but Amazon alone probably sells more than one in seven new copies in many genres.
I don’t want to spam your blog with links, so if you’re curious about the math, feel free to e-mail me. I did sell well over 100,000 books as a trade author before I went back to self publishing, and have received trade (and distribution) offers for every book I’ve self published since, so I’m not a publishing theorist:-)
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I find the discussion on creating digital travel information such as downloadable walking tours fascinating since this is exactly what Geogad, the company that I work for, is doing right now. If you surf over to the Geogad website at http://www.geogad.com, you can download a free MP3 walking tours of three popular travel cities, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Vancouver, Canada. The website and tours have only been available for a couple of weeks. If you would prefer a tour without ads, you can buy it from the Geogad website for $6.99. More tours to other cities are on the way.
Geogad’s tours are made up of several MP3 files, and each file has a photo that highlights the audio narration. This photo could be a picture of the tour location so that the traveler can get his bearings, some detail that the traveler might miss if not pointed out, or a map accompanying the audio directions to the next tour stop.
Please stop by the Geogad website and let us know what you think.
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I find the discussion on creating digital travel information such as downloadable walking tours fascinating since this is exactly what Geogad, the company that I work for, is doing right now. If you surf over to the Geogad website at http://www.geogad.com, you can download a free MP3 walking tours of three popular travel cities, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Vancouver, Canada. The website and tours have only been available for a couple of weeks. If you would prefer a tour without ads, you can buy it from the Geogad website for $6.99. More tours to other cities are on the way.
Geogad’s tours are made up of several MP3 files, and each file has a photo that highlights the audio narration. This photo could be a picture of the tour location so that the traveler can get his bearings, some detail that the traveler might miss if not pointed out, or a map accompanying the audio directions to the next tour stop.
Please stop by the Geogad website and let us know what you think.
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Now, what kind of content might a tourist heading toward Paris need?
Well, I’d like to know the best way to use my laptop to continue options trading?
Is there good, fast, internet connections around?
Don
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Now, what kind of content might a tourist heading toward Paris need?
Well, I’d like to know the best way to use my laptop to continue options trading?
Is there good, fast, internet connections around?
Don
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