{"id":50,"date":"2008-07-22T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:12:32","slug":"common-sense-in-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/common-sense-in-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Common sense in publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a reader long before I was a writer, and I\u2019m still a reader more than a writer (\u2019cause, you know, reading is a faster process than writing). So when I read Dear Author this morning, wherein <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080725044441\/http:\/\/dearauthor.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/22\/top-ten-things-publishers-could-do-to-help-readers-buy-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jane proceeds to give publishers advice as to how to help readers buy books<\/a> and she didn\u2019t miss a trick, I shouted hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Although the fact that she needed to defies winning models of doing businesses, but this <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong> publishing we\u2019re talking about.)<\/p>\n<p>This one in particular caught our attention over at B10 Mediaworx (which website is in the middle of redesign to implement a better shopping cart than what we\u2019ve got now):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Have a website where readers can easily find out about titles, where to get them, what formats they\u2019ll be in, when they\u2019re being released, and how they relate to other books with a link to an excerpt. Each publisher\u2019s website should contain the information of title, release date and book description as early as possible along with the excerpt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have:<\/p>\n<p>A. Gone to a website to purchase an ebook and had to spend upwards of a half an hour to do so because of all the extraneous steps required (or got tired or distracted or had a time limit and ended up not buying at all) and\/or<\/p>\n<p>B. Couldn\u2019t find anything anywhere to tell me where I could purchase an ebook, even though I knew it was available (this included trolling authors\u2019 sites, which helped little nor not at all) and\/or<\/p>\n<p>C. Read someone (or a whole lot of someones) on some blog complaining about A and\/or B.<\/p>\n<p>Quite often I read someone who goes, \u201cHey, Author A:  Tell your publisher it needs to do X, Y, Z because I\u2019d sure LIKE to buy your book, but I can\u2019t.  What\u2019s up with that?\u201d It doesn\u2019t help anyone to request an author to help because s\/he has no control over that\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014which is kind of the nice thing about opening up your own shop. (And some days, you have to scramble to rustle up <strong><em>any<\/em><\/strong> nice thing about opening up your own shop.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a reader long before I was a writer, and I\u2019m still a reader more than a writer (\u2019cause, you know, reading is a faster process than writing). So when I read Dear Author this morning, wherein Jane proceeds to give publishers advice as to how to help readers buy books and she didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[544,597,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-buying","category-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17261,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}