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So there it is - a book I wrote for Numenists, showing up in the Amazon.com Marketplace. Color me very surprised.
See, this book was written for Numenists about dying and death. It's not Christian. The market for it is (I thought) very small. After all, there aren't many Numenists. That's why I printed it through Lulu.com. The market for it is too small for traditional publishers. I didn't even try sending it the traditional route.
I thought of it like a family cookbook - useful and interesting only to family members, filled with familial anecdotes and in-references that others probably won't get. We Numenists are a very small group of people, and only slightly larger if you think some of it will apply to a generalized Paganish audience.
Or perhaps like a class room workbook, necessary only for those taking the class, and the class is specialized and small.
I did purchase an ISBN for it so it would be easier to find when we discussed dying and death, and the price covers Lulu.com's printing costs (cheaper than photocopying! And it comes tidily bound!), but I didn't pay for the marketing package that would list it in various places because - well, it's a Numenist book. How many non-Numenists would want it?
Having it picked up by Amazon.com surprises me. Is there really enough of a market for it to justify it being there?
I feel like I'm getting a freebie.
And I wonder if other Numenist books I've published will also be picked up by Amazon.com?
Does this mean Numenism is wider-spread than I thought?
See, this book was written for Numenists about dying and death. It's not Christian. The market for it is (I thought) very small. After all, there aren't many Numenists. That's why I printed it through Lulu.com. The market for it is too small for traditional publishers. I didn't even try sending it the traditional route.
I thought of it like a family cookbook - useful and interesting only to family members, filled with familial anecdotes and in-references that others probably won't get. We Numenists are a very small group of people, and only slightly larger if you think some of it will apply to a generalized Paganish audience.
Or perhaps like a class room workbook, necessary only for those taking the class, and the class is specialized and small.
I did purchase an ISBN for it so it would be easier to find when we discussed dying and death, and the price covers Lulu.com's printing costs (cheaper than photocopying! And it comes tidily bound!), but I didn't pay for the marketing package that would list it in various places because - well, it's a Numenist book. How many non-Numenists would want it?
Having it picked up by Amazon.com surprises me. Is there really enough of a market for it to justify it being there?
I feel like I'm getting a freebie.
And I wonder if other Numenist books I've published will also be picked up by Amazon.com?
Does this mean Numenism is wider-spread than I thought?
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