[LMB] (Chat) Blackstone happiness

[Ed Burkhead]

Lois,

I'm glad you and your publisher have authorized audible.com to carry your
books.

I hope you get a reasonable royalty from Audible even when the book is
purchased using a membership "credit" as that is how I've bought all your
books now available in audio.

There's no way I could have afforded buying them at audio 'list' price on
physical media.  That's especially true since I've already bought them on
paper.

Yet, due to the Audible pricing and having a premium membership, I've been
able to buy audio copies of everything.

Along the way, I've nagged (I mean encouraged) Blackstone (very politely) to
get Cordelia's Honor and the Borders of Infinity done to complete the set.

All the best,

W. L. W!

Ed



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lois-bujold-bounces at lists.herald.co.uk [mailto:lois-bujold-
> bounces at lists.herald.co.uk] On Behalf Of Lois McMaster Bujold
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:00 PM
> To: lois- >> Bujold chat list; LordV at yahoogroups.com; Bernardi, Mike
> Subject: [LMB] (Chat) Blackstone happiness
> 
> Woo hoo!
> 
> Blackstone royalties for the last half of '07 arrived today, and very
> nice they are.  Sales are up on every title, even the older ones, an
> effect I put down to the power of cross-selling -- the more there is to
> choose from, the more the customers will choose.  And the new titles are
> earning out their initial advances with alacrity.
> 
> As usual, the details are interesting and revealing.  Only a handful of
> my sales are on physical media, mostly, I suspect, to libraries.  (In
> fact, if my sales were limited to physical media, I'd be a disaster.)
> 90% to 95% and more are MP3 downloads sold over the internet, and which
> are moving very briskly indeed -- flying off the virtual shelves.
> Internet commerce (and improved tech -- iPods and so on) have really
> made a huge difference in this medium.
> 
>
http://www.blackstoneaudiobooks.com/Search.cfm?search=Lois%20McMaster%20Bujo
ld
> 
> This ought to be a direct link to my Blackstone page, but if it doesn't
> work, a simple search on "Bujold" brings me right up.
> 
> Ta, L.  (And, of course, thanks to all the reader/listeners out there
> who made this happen.)
> 
> 
> 
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