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Campus Book Drop Volunteers Wanted
My publisher is looking for approximately 20 volunteers willing to participate in a campus book drop guerilla marketing effort for my new book, Elephants on Acid.
Their idea is to have people leave copies of the book in highly visible places, such as on college campuses, where someone else will pick it up. Hopefully this will help spread the word about the book. I'm not sure how many sales these book drop efforts actually create, but it's worth a try (especially since my publisher is the one paying for it!). If you volunteer, my publisher will mail you a free copy of the book. Of course, it's not a copy you can keep forever. The idea is to leave it somewhere after you've finished reading it. And yeah, it's all on the honor system, so you could just keep the book. But that would be dishonest!
Contact me by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you'd like to volunteer. The only conditions are that you have to live in the U.S. or Canada. (Sorry, it's not being published anywhere else yet.) And we're also looking for some geographic variety, so that we don't get twenty people all in the same city.
UPDATE: So I've now already got all the volunteers I need. Thanks to everyone who's agreed to help out. And sorry if you wanted to volunteer, but are only reading the post now. You can always buy the book and leave it somewhere.
The geographic location of volunteers turned out to be well distributed, just by random chance. The largest concentration of volunteers was in Missouri, but there's not enough Missourians to warrant dropping anyone for that reason. After all, It doesn't hurt to have a couple of the books circulating in the same state.UPDATE 2: One other thing. A couple of people mentioned that the books should be marked in some way to prevent people from simply selling them on eBay. I assume the publisher is going to do this, but I'll point it out to them, just in case this possibility never occurred to them.
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Categories: Miscellaneous Posted by Alex on Wed Oct 10, 2007 |
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I'm in, Alex. It probably won't be on a college campus, but I'll find a high-traffic area to abandon the book in.
Hmm, is there some kind of sticker that we could put on the inside of the front cover that would increase the intrigue level?
"Property of Homeland Security" perhaps? Something different and better?
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 03:41 AM
Hmm, is there some kind of sticker that we could put on the inside of the front cover that would increase the intrigue level?
"Property of Homeland Security" perhaps? Something different and better?
How are sales looking, if you don't mind saying? I've seen the book blogged practically everywhere...
Posted by outeast in prague on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 04:39 AM
I'll volunteer! I work at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL and I live near Rollins College in Winter Park and University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Posted by Terran in Winter Park, FL on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 05:34 AM
Awwwww 
It sometimes sucks to live in Australia.
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 07:32 AM
It sometimes sucks to live in Australia.
I agree, Nettie.
Posted by Smerk in to mischief on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 07:45 AM
The book isn't out in stores yet, which makes it impossible to judge sales. In fact, I haven't seen a final copy yet. But the publisher did decide to increase the initial print run, based on initial requests from bookstores. So that's a good sign.
Of course, stores might later return all those books if they go unsold. You have to wait for six months or a year to know how many have actually sold. And to anticipate potential returns, the publisher puts a large chunk of whatever royalties an author might be owed "in reserve." Which means the author may not see the money for one or two years... or perhaps never.
The way the publishing industry does its accounting is truly byzantine.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Of course, stores might later return all those books if they go unsold. You have to wait for six months or a year to know how many have actually sold. And to anticipate potential returns, the publisher puts a large chunk of whatever royalties an author might be owed "in reserve." Which means the author may not see the money for one or two years... or perhaps never.
The way the publishing industry does its accounting is truly byzantine.
son of a... I missed out as well...
I work in the same city as Michigan State University and have several of their students working in our office... woulda been easy enough to get it there from here.
*wonders why Amazon shows 2 resellers with used copies*
Posted by oppiejoe in Michigan - USA on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 02:46 PM
I work in the same city as Michigan State University and have several of their students working in our office... woulda been easy enough to get it there from here.
*wonders why Amazon shows 2 resellers with used copies*
Hey, I missed out on this... darn... but if you happen to need more people or whatever, I go to Kent State University in Ohio and I can leave them around campus.
Posted by Nikki in Ohio on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 10:09 PM
If you register the books at bookcrossing (http://www.bookcrossing.com/) and mark it accordingly, you may even get some feedback on how far they travel after being released in the wild.
Posted by Nadine on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 02:51 AM
I guess I'm too late, but I could have done University of Arizona. Oh Well. By the way oppiejoe (go spartans!!!)
Posted by Razela in Chicago, IL on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 10:11 PM
*smiles at Razela* 
Posted by oppiejoe in Michigan - USA on Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Crap! I missed this and I live in a town with a HUGE university! :( University of Guelph
Posted by MadCarlotta in Canada on Sun Oct 21, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Oh, and what Nadime said about Bookcrossing
Posted by MadCarlotta in Canada on Sun Oct 21, 2007 at 12:13 PM
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