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- From: Nan Sterman <Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com>
- To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:27:27 -0800
Long ago I was reviewing some gardening software for a magazine and the editor told me that he would rather comment on a poor product by not giving it any room in his publication. Silence, he said, sends a pretty clear message to the publisher (the software publisher happened also to be a book publisher).
At first, I thought he was taking the chicken way out but after some thought, I realized that he was correct. We are all dependent on each other - book publishers, magazine publishers, writers, photographers. If a magazine were to publish a negative review, do you think the book publisher would take a chance on sending that publication another book to review? Of course not. Marketing is hard enough - I suspect that few book publishers would take that chance.
And really, there is little need to publish a negative review. Most of our readers are smart enough to recognize a good book from a poor one. Sales will be the feedback that will tell the publisher how goo the product is.
Nan
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[gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Dan Clost, 01/14/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Gene Bush, 01/14/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book, tloallergyfree, 01/15/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Nan Sterman, 01/14/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Dan Clost, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
eczekalski, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Nancy Stedman, 01/15/2005
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[gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic from reviewing books,
Claude Sweet, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic from reviewingbooks,
Sheri Ann Richerson, 01/15/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic fromreviewingbooks, MARGARET LAUTERBACH, 01/15/2005
- RE: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topicfromreviewingbooks, Sheri Ann Richerson, 01/15/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changingtopicfromreviewingbooks, MARGARET LAUTERBACH, 01/15/2005
- RE: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources -changingtopicfromreviewingbooks, Sheri Ann Richerson, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic from reviewingbooks,
Sheri Ann Richerson, 01/15/2005
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[gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic from reviewing books,
Claude Sweet, 01/15/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Recommending plant sources - changing topic fromreviewingbooks, Stephen, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Nancy Stedman, 01/15/2005
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RE: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
eczekalski, 01/15/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Dan Clost, 01/15/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book,
Gene Bush, 01/14/2005
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