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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Do you get any benefits less related to textual changes? Winnowing down/understanding your target market, for example? Even if you aren't doing more external marketing, I'm wondering if this could impact integrated marketing concepts like cover art, the title and/or various descriptions to help you appeal to the right folks. Or, anything else.
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That's an interesting idea. I've generally only relied on pre-readers for storytelling feedback, but I suppose one could extrapolate the information to other areas of marketing.
I imagine that one could learn a lot by noticing which aspects of the story pique the readers' interests. For example, if readers say they enjoyed the sweeping political drama of the story, that might suggest a different kind of cover art than if readers focus in on the innocent and victimized child who is caught up in the tides of said political drama.