Re: Author Earnings

**M* P* D* <m*@dargan.com>**

Thx Doug. From one pioneer to another... Keep mushing onward! 

Mary Palmer Dargan, asla
Author, licensed landscape architect, lecturer
404-354-1715

> On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> MP - I'm not aware of any large dataset on self published gardening books.
> I have no idea about product life cycles on gardening books either (if that
> was what you're asking) other than my own.
> 
> And heavy image ebooks are an issue all by themselves quite frankly.  It
> depends on the layouts and a ton of factors beyond what I deal with. There
> was an excellent book of poetry put out called "The Unworlds" that was
> entirely image-based and very well done. It may be worth downloading it to
> a Kindle reader just to see how they did it. :-)
> 
> All the marketing data and stuff anybody needs is out on the Net or in
> ebooks for sure - and much of it works for non-fiction as well as fiction.
> I have a worksheet of to-do's that would choke that proverbial horse. :-)
> 
> It's a great time to be a writer quite frankly. :-)
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Mary Palmer Dargan <mpdargan@dargan.com>wrote:
> 
>> Doug, I read the paper with great interest.
>> 
>> Last year I purchased Publishing Catapult, a kindle packager and created
>> titles for future work.
>> 
>> This analysis really lit a fire under my "soon to be" self-publishing
>> empire. I had no idea of the profit my publisher makes on the 2 e-books
>> already available that they cloned off my print editions. They do quite
>> well in numbers!
>> 
>> Are there metrics for PLMs that have image heavy landscape design books?
>> They are not exactly the models he quotes in the articles.
>> 
>> Congratulations on your sales by the way! You are always an inspiration.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Mary Palmer Dargan, asla
>> Author, licensed landscape architect, lecturer
>> 404-354-1715
> -- 
> 
> Doug Green
> Head Weeder, Head Wordsmith
> http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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