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Originally Posted by nomesque
Cripes, I'm not one of the people you particularly have in mind, am I? I know I've been rabbiting on about my latest book (NOW AVAILABLE AT - oh, right, yeah  ), but only where I expect people to join in the cheering - and one little thread in Deals...  |
You're not, because you *participate* in the forums. You're not here just to promote or talk about your books.
I don't care how many forums you or Steve Jordan or starrigger/Jeffrey Carver announces their books in. If someone asks any of you about price, or formats, or why that book cover, or which other genre the book might be considered part of, you'd answer. If someone wants to know about font choices or whether a translation is possible, you'd answer. (The answer might be, "that's the default font settings and they look fine to me," but it won't be "just buy the book or don't; you shouldn't get obsessive about fonts.")
If someone says they'd never reach such a book because the title reminds them of their ex, or says it sounds pretentious because the description is too close to some recent bestseller--you'd answer, and not with "how dare you have an opinion about my book when you haven't read it yet."
The authors who regularly post here, who are involved in the discussions, are aware that readers' time is valuable too. They know that there are many reasons to read or not-read a book, all of which are valid. (They may think some reasons are stupid, but they understand that telling someone their reasons are stupid isn't likely to change their mind about a book.)
They understand that authors aren't doing the forum a favor by announcing new books here. We *like* new books. We like, for the most part, new book announcements. We just also like *conversation* about ebooks, and a lot of authors treat Mobileread as if it were a classified-ads section in a newspaper, not a discussion forum.
If you post your new book announcement in Deals & Freebies, that's reasonable. If you also post it in Writer's Forum with a note about choosing art for a cover, that's fine too. If you post it at the Kindle forum with a comment about the Amazon ranking system, that's fine. Post it in the lounge with a poll about "what should I rename Chapter Three?" Also fine.
Okay, maybe not everyone thinks it's a good idea to post about the same book in four places. But if you did, you'd do it in order to have *four different conversation topics,* not ads in four places where you hoped people would see them.
(And I owe you feedback. Feedback is good; formatting is being weird & troublesome. Must send email about this.)