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| BadMouth:
No time to read, so I got the audiobook. I think reading it would be more enjoyable, but I can't do that on the way to work. Kinda reminds me of the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness" at times. I'm about halfway through. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on July 20, 2015, 09:21:51 am ---I'm about halfway through. --- End quote --- You get one more week before this turns into a spoiler thread. |
| BadMouth:
Listening to an interview with the author.... http://www.tested.com/science/space/530955-talking-room-adam-savage-interviews-andy-weir/ It's pretty cool that the book was originally self published and given away for free, then sold for 99 cents on Amazon, then purchased by a publisher for several hundred thousand dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on July 22, 2015, 02:04:27 pm ---Listening to an interview with the author.... http://www.tested.com/science/space/530955-talking-room-adam-savage-interviews-andy-weir/ It's pretty cool that the book was originally self published and given away for free, then sold for 99 cents on Amazon, then purchased by a publisher for several hundred thousand dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) --- End quote --- Yes, that is very cool, and about the same odds as winning the lottery, lol. 20,000 new books on Amazon each week now, with 3.8 million already up, almost all Indie authors, and 99.999% of them never sell more than 1 copy (usually to mom). Free doesn't do crap any more either, 1 in 1000 people who download a book for free will never even read it, 50% of those who download it and read it will not like it because it isn't their genre (they just got it for free). So for a free book to do well enough to gain a following, then to do well enough at 99 cents to get a traditional publishing contract that actually pays more than what they would have made on their own, then to do well enough to get a book deal is super rare. |
| wp34:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on July 22, 2015, 02:04:27 pm ---Listening to an interview with the author.... http://www.tested.com/science/space/530955-talking-room-adam-savage-interviews-andy-weir/ It's pretty cool that the book was originally self published and given away for free, then sold for 99 cents on Amazon, then purchased by a publisher for several hundred thousand dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) --- End quote --- Interesting. I did not know that. |
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