Originally posted by Slowmad
Ah so...
I had forgotten about the connection between the Almanac and Traveler/Explorer.
Those latter titles, alas, seemed doomed from the start.
Dreadful art direction and a schizophrenic, utterly unfocused editorial mission made for an overall hash—at least for me.
The magazines didn't seem to know if they were for new visitors or for aficionados.
That said, the fact that they had no competition and were still shuttered speaks to two possibilities: poor management or too small a market for
advertising. As a longtime fan of the Almanac, I'll give the benefit of the doubt and call it the latter.
David K, you're right and wrong on the book front.
Costs are what you spec, and like everything else in the world, you don't get what you deserve---you get what you negotiate.
Distribution is indeed the bugaboo.
The country's storage units are filled with pallets of unsellable self-published books.
Re: your Pepper reprint, perhaps you could do a little research here on Nomad.
Whilt it would be a tiny niche of a book, 500 sales at full-boogie retail would be far better than a traditonal small run of, say, 3K (a third sold at
wholesale, two thirds moldering in a garage or sold to remainder jobbers.)
Now, where's that new Almanac... |
