Originally posted by DanFranklin
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My responses were directed at a lot of posts! But I fully understand and am not trying to back and forth or be snarky, just to clear up a couple things!
I have no ability to send out those sorts of contact emails, I just make unofficial CD updates there, and official ones on the CD website every couple months (and one in every April on every item in the public list--although the non public list is far bigger). The issue with things like Little Boy is it was made at one of the super high quality/high priced printers at a value easily twice what was being charged and it took 6 months and didn't sell. As for the term freebies, I apologize--I was using another customer's term and you are completely correct. They're not freebies. They were paid and are overdue. That is absolutely true.
When I say frozen, I mean no new projects! I've never signed a contract for a limited edition (I don't deal with the King products) in my 5 years here. When I got the job I was told that I would be taking no new ones until we are caught up. We owe from way before that!
As for Amazon vs the website... that is an ongoing issue in that, particularly on release, Amazon can deliver far faster than we can. That's why almost not small presses offer paperbacks directly, but instead reroute through Amazon. We can make up sales when discounts come through, and we can give signed copies of certain books, but there's definitely a reason that almost all pb sales go through KDP. The website itself is woefully outdated and bloated and needs to be cleaned up. There are only a few useful tabs on our website currently: the front page, product update, and in-stock. Most of the others are relics! Will make down a note to see about at the very least leaving the tabs fully empty (things like Bruises should not be there--and books like Sieber's newest aren't technically a preorder at all, but fully released and in need of updating!)
I have no ability to send out those sorts of contact emails, I just make unofficial CD updates there, and official ones on the CD website every couple months (and one in every April on every item in the public list--although the non public list is far bigger). The issue with things like Little Boy is it was made at one of the super high quality/high priced printers at a value easily twice what was being charged and it took 6 months and didn't sell. As for the term freebies, I apologize--I was using another customer's term and you are completely correct. They're not freebies. They were paid and are overdue. That is absolutely true.
When I say frozen, I mean no new projects! I've never signed a contract for a limited edition (I don't deal with the King products) in my 5 years here. When I got the job I was told that I would be taking no new ones until we are caught up. We owe from way before that!
As for Amazon vs the website... that is an ongoing issue in that, particularly on release, Amazon can deliver far faster than we can. That's why almost not small presses offer paperbacks directly, but instead reroute through Amazon. We can make up sales when discounts come through, and we can give signed copies of certain books, but there's definitely a reason that almost all pb sales go through KDP. The website itself is woefully outdated and bloated and needs to be cleaned up. There are only a few useful tabs on our website currently: the front page, product update, and in-stock. Most of the others are relics! Will make down a note to see about at the very least leaving the tabs fully empty (things like Bruises should not be there--and books like Sieber's newest aren't technically a preorder at all, but fully released and in need of updating!)
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