tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post8373621578663002982..comments2023-08-19T14:12:52.220+02:00Comments on Reflection & Inquiries: Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price - NYTimes.comGeoffrey Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-33888205310697533102009-05-30T18:06:49.208+02:002009-05-30T18:06:49.208+02:00If you are seriously interested in marketing and s...If you are seriously interested in marketing and sales, check out John Kremer's "10 million eyeballs" course. That's all it's about.<br /><br />I do feel a need for critical filtering, to better my chances to read something good. And as your comment on my "Rilke" story implies, I need it make my own writing more effective.Geoffrey Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-41869274743854656142009-05-30T03:08:04.645+02:002009-05-30T03:08:04.645+02:00I don’t feel any need for critical filtering. I th...I don’t feel any need for critical filtering. I think that’s mostly because my criteria are different from much of the publishers’ criteria, namely making money. (I remember hearing the story of the note by an editor on the MS of a well-established writer that was turned down. Part of internal correspondence was, “We have no justification for publishing this except it’s well written.” I am quite certain that most of what I write is better, by my criteria, that the mostly dreck on the airport newsstands.<br /><br />What I feel a need of is sales and marketing. Since the early 80’s I have been in a position to typeset a book. I could have bought printing & binding. What I don’t know how to do and am temperamentally handicapped from doing is marketing and sales. Scribd does not provide that so it is not much good to me.Dirk van Nouhuyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920127581598506664noreply@blogger.com