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Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Monday, 7 January 2008
Friday, 4 January 2008
Thursday, 3 January 2008
A business plan of sorts
After a chat with miles last night I realise we need some definitive goals. Although we need to get the titles out in the spring to get availabilty, the glacier like speed of the book retail industry means that legitimately we're looking at Christmas 2008 as a big target.
As such the plan should be this
1) launch next two books by march with PR campaign.
2) Move heaven and earth to get stock in as many places as possible
3) generate enough money by september to have enought to print and publicise book 4 for christmas (in practice this means £2000 so we have to sell around 300 copies of each book in 6 months - a sales target of around 40 books a week in total!) obviously direct sales, merchandise etc will hopefuly make this an easier target.
As such the plan should be this
1) launch next two books by march with PR campaign.
2) Move heaven and earth to get stock in as many places as possible
3) generate enough money by september to have enought to print and publicise book 4 for christmas (in practice this means £2000 so we have to sell around 300 copies of each book in 6 months - a sales target of around 40 books a week in total!) obviously direct sales, merchandise etc will hopefuly make this an easier target.
BICS classification
according to waterstones, my first title doesn't have a BICS classification. So I went here http://www.bic.org.uk/productinfo-subjectcat.html
My BICS category is YBCH and my children's Book Marketing Category is A2M69
I've joined nielsen pubweb (this takes a few days) by going here http://www.nielsenbookdata.com/htmlDocs/PubWebRegistrationForm.doc
so in a few days I'll be able to change my bibliographical data (this takes a week to go through)
I also have a form to send off to gardners that waterstones sent me. If Gardners accept me (fingers crossed) I should be laughing. this is all weeks away though - i reckon that march may be more realistic than february to have everything in place
My BICS category is YBCH and my children's Book Marketing Category is A2M69
I've joined nielsen pubweb (this takes a few days) by going here http://www.nielsenbookdata.com/htmlDocs/PubWebRegistrationForm.doc
so in a few days I'll be able to change my bibliographical data (this takes a week to go through)
I also have a form to send off to gardners that waterstones sent me. If Gardners accept me (fingers crossed) I should be laughing. this is all weeks away though - i reckon that march may be more realistic than february to have everything in place
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Borders
In order for us to stock a new title, it needs to be available via a wholesaler (e.g. Gardners or Bertrams). If your book is stocked by a wholesaler, please send a copy with an advance information sheet to:
New PressBorders Group,Stillerman House,120 Charing Cross Road,London,WC2H 0JR
i'll do this tomorrow
New PressBorders Group,Stillerman House,120 Charing Cross Road,London,WC2H 0JR
i'll do this tomorrow
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