| So, many months ago, I signed off on a contract for Sony e-readers rights for one of my stories that was in Pandora's Closet by DAW Books. "Lady in Red" was my first short story sale about two years back and terribly thrilling to see in print. But with electronic rights being THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, I gladly signed off on it cuz I'm progressive like that. I figure what are the odds of someone tracking down Pandora's Closet electronically, then singling out my story to download? I'd say they'd be going well above and beyond what I expect by my Undead Approved stalkers. Then, I had a chocolate bar with crisps of bacon in it, sent back the contract and promptly forgot about it. Got an email about my payment for the e-reader version of my story recently. What are my sales on this lone short of mine? One person in the universe has downloaded it, and frankly that's one more than I expected. I mean, I'm the author and I found just hunting it down myself was a hard find. It took about five minutes of Googling and narrowing down my options to finally come across it. http://ebookstore.sony.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/078/236/400000000000000078236.html Now, Dead To Me has sold many, many copies and there's no way I could begin to figure out how everyone came to it, but I have to say that the idea of hunting down this one person who downloaded me for the Sony reader is intriguing. It's a very finite amount of people.. just one! Who are you, lone reader of me in electronic format? What is your tale? I must know... |
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I bet it was someone trying to get the Chris DeBurgh song who downloaded it by accident.
Maybe someone with a John Dillinger fixation?
Maybe someone with a sucky story fixation? (OH NO I DIN'T!)
I could review it :) and then maybe two people would download it ;)
*hugs* Maybe next paycheck I'll download it... I mean, that's an expensive book! ;) But you know I will. Just another writer I'm addicted to. *sigh*
Soon, all your 99 cents will be mine.. muahahahahaha!
My plans for slow world domination will be complete.. probably about four years after my death...
So only another, what? 50 years to go? Yeah... you'll get there.
Anton...if you had signed the rights to publish it in Mobipocket, I'd find it and buy it right now. I'm boycotting the Sony Ereader and the Kindle, because I don't want to be required to purchase their formats. The readers are still (to my mind) much too expensive, and the limited purchase options give too much price control to the sellers.
Just my two cents.
Val
Oo- If I'm goign to have to download all kinds of software to read this, I'd rather just send you a dollar and have you email me a pdf. :)
I think it's available in every reader format ever at the us.penguingroup.com site...
I found "Dead to Me" pretty much everywhere, and found it in Mobipocket format at Books on Board and Fictionwise (where I bought it). Sorry...couldn't find an electronic version of Pandora's Closet or your short story.
I can see why you're curious about who purchased the e-version!
You know, I JUST found his short story this last weekend at Borders. I couldn't believe it! I snapped it up and told them they should order more. :)
Melissa- this is why I love you!