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This is not our
strong point. There is only one kind of marketing which, on
occasion, justifies its cost, and that is aggressive marketing. More
often, even that fails utterly and we see the aftermath of such campaigns
in discount bins.
DamnYankee.com exists in order to proffer the works published here. The economics of electronic publishing do not justify aggressive marketing, and only those publishing houses for which e-publishing is a revenue-losing sideline are experimenting with the effort. This web site can exist pretty much forever -- (and a damn Yankee is just stubborn enough to do that) -- so long as its objective is to run the banner up the pole and see who salutes, so to speak. If a flag flies on a hilltop and no one sees it, did it pierce the skyline? We can expend our effort in sewing and raising those flags or we can spend it in running about in the vale below the hill and urging the self-absorbed to look upward. We really can't do both. What we will do for participating authors is provide virtually limitless exposure in the company of other very good writers. We will provide a humble means whereby an interested reader may obtain the works of each author at a less-than-absurd cost and so that, should a reader be found now and then, the author may receive a few cents through us for the effort of writing a good book. An author whose work is carried here is free, of course, to do all the marketing of any kind that one may wish to attempt. We welcome links to all other sites, we co-publish, we provide links to others' sites, (more of that to come), and we entertain other innovations that cost us neither time or money. This philosophy is more closely in accord with the expectations of writers up to, say, the rise of Mark Twain. People wrote novels and treatises and all else in between in order to convey something that yearned to burst from a willing and willed pen. No one reasonably expected riches and acclaim, the apparent motives for most writing and publishing today, and the chief impediment to the publication of much that otherwise deserves to be seen. If a book is proffered on a web site for all to obtain, is it "published"? Well, if a banner is run up a pole on a hilltop for all to salute or shoot at, is it "flying"? If it weren't flying, why would someone be taking pot shots at it? If isn't published, why is someone buying it now and then? If, as an author, you want to grovel before agents who are pledged only to find the next million-seller, then we aren't for you. If you're a reader who wants only to read the same plot again and again with the names changed to disguise the plagiarism, this site isn't for you. If you're an author content to write for the sake of getting it said and content to run it up the pole and then get back to writing some more, inquire. If you're a reader who would like a bit more variety in the written word, dig in. Nothing here is expensive, but if you can't even afford that, or you don't do the credit card bit, get in touch with us anyway. We can arrange other forms of payment, and who knows? -- we just may give away free samples. |
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