12-13-2009, 04:41 PM | #1 |
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How about some eecb's to publishers?
How about we all send letters or emails to the executives of the publishing houses to let them know how we feel about their plan to delay ebooks by four months? Maybe if we all sound off on them they will realize they are alienating the very readers they want money from?
I'll see if I can find addresses and emails for them. Anyone in? |
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12-13-2009, 05:02 PM | #3 |
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But a well crafted letter to more than just Carolyn Reidy might turns heads more. That may be how we feel, but it won't get the reaction we wish.
As the late Patrick Swayze said in "Road House", "Be nice. Be nice until it's time to not be nice." They just blow off the really rude letters and emails. |
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The only thing they care about are bottom lines. We're below bottom. Our letters might as well be stamped with 'immediate shredding." I wouldn't waste the bandwidth on these dinosaurs. |
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So you would rather curse the darkness than to light a candle, just because you think it will not give off enough light?
I suppose you do not vote either, because your vote doesn't matter. We need to let them know ahead of time why their profits will go down, so that when it does they have something to correlate it to, instead of putting their, ahem, heads together and coming up with something stupid that has no basis in truth. |
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I sent St. Martin's an email about a book that was priced higher than the paper version, but I just sent it to customer service. I plan to email each publisher every time they have a lost sale from me for some ridiculous reason.
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I've sent emails to both publishers and authors, and told them I'd be boycotting their business until they change their minds. I suspect they could really care less, they are fighting a bigger battle and we are just the collateral damage, so to speak.
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12-13-2009, 06:28 PM | #8 |
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Carolyn Reidy carolyn.reidy@simonandschuster.com
or mail to: 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 I'm not positive about the email, but it is in the same format as others in the company, so I plan on trying it. Then there are the other executives. I saw both names capitalized in the email, and both lowercase, so if one doesn't work we might try the other. Louise Burke Executive Vice President and Publisher, Pocket Books Stacy Creamer Vice President and Publisher, Touchstone-Fireside Judith Curr Executive Vice President and Publisher, Atria Books Mark Gompertz Executive Vice President, Digital Publisher of Simon & Schuster Elinor Hirschhorn Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer Martha Levin Executive Vice President and Publisher, Free Press Christopher Lynch Executive Vice President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audio Susan Moldow Executive Vice President and Publisher, Scribner David Rosenthal Executive Vice President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Michael Selleck Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing I'll look up the other publishers, too. edited to add: Elinor Hirschorn and Christopher Lynch didn't go through as lowercase names. Last edited by mrscoach; 12-13-2009 at 06:48 PM. |
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