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By the way, Nora also said that if PA did come knocking on her door, she'd sic her dogs on them. I haven't met her dogs, but I've seen pictures.
Big dogs.
Dear author:
Few people realize that PublishAmerica is mostly run by women. Men account for less than one-fourth of our overwhelmingly female-operated organization. Women hold almost all managerial and supervisory positions. From our executive director to the printing operations manager.
At PublishAmerica, women are in charge of all editorial production and all art work. They also supervise human resources, our author support team, our bookstore, and the vital department that we call pre-production, where we work with the author to get everything ready for a book's production, fast. They manage the printing of hundreds of thousands of our books.
Girls rule and run PublishAmerica.
They are therefore also in charge of the shopping cart on our website (and the entire website, period): www.publishamerica.net. If you go there today and look at your own book, you will see a Latest News message. Can't miss it. A billboard spot designed, of course, by women. It shows up everywhere in our online bookstore, competing with every book we sell. See with your own eyes, look up any other book.
You can reserve that Latest News spot for your own message, to advertise your book or yourself. Anyone who comes in to buy any of our tens of thousands of book products cannot escape your message. Talk to them!
Here's how you do it: find your book (PAperbacks are excluded), use this discount coupon: Billboard50. Your order of 7 or more books automatically buys you the exclusive spot for two full days! It's like having your own commercial reaching thousands of real-time PublishAmerica book readers, people who actually buy books! Before they buy someone else's book, you can now tell them about yours! Tip: include your email address and ask them to contact you!
In the Ordering Instructions box write your message; limited to 150 characters. If you want us to contact you and help you with your message, say "Contact me". Your ad will appear on a first come, first serve basis but appear it will. PAperbacks orders under this coupon will not be processed, so you'll be wasting your money if you try.
Oh, and for the record: most PublishAmerica authors are female, too. Their average age is slightly over 40. They are less likely to be unemployed, increasingly they earn more than men, they control dispensable income, and they have a decisive say in almost all food, vacation, and car purchases. They also talk more: 7,000 words per day as opposed to 2,000 words uttered by the average man.
It's a women's world, and what's not to love about that!
Your order of 7 or more books automatically buys you the exclusive spot for two full days! It's like having your own commercial reaching thousands of real-time PublishAmerica book readers, people who actually buy books!
Girls rule and run PublishAmerica.
Oh, and for the record: most PublishAmerica authors are female, too. Their average age is slightly over 40. They are less likely to be unemployed, increasingly they earn more than men, they control dispensable income, and they have a decisive say in almost all food, vacation, and car purchases.
More like processed cheese food product .Book Products. Excellent.
Is that anything likecheese product?
I notice that there is no discount for this offer. Given that the cheapest softcover I've seen was $19.95 and the most expensive one was that crazy $34.95 book, that's anywhere from $167.58 to a whopping $272.58 for a two day advertising spot on PA's site. Do you have any idea the amount of quality internet advertisement that I could buy for that?
No, they don't.Girls rule and run PublishAmerica.
Dear PAYperback writer:Dear PAperback writer:
PublishAmerica has reserved space at the world's biggest book event: the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, now only ten weeks away. The best and the brightest of the world's bestselling authors, foreign publishers, Hollywood producers, booksellers, and thousands of media are expected to attend.
So if the women-power email was sent to men too, does that mean they forgot to add a sentence?
(If you're a man, orders under this coupon will not be processed, so you'll be wasting your money if you try.)
Oh good, PA-feminism. I see it's just as far from actual feminism as their publishing practices are from commercial publishing.
The code they give is for a 50% discount, even though they don't mention it. (Not that it matters - still costs an arm and a leg.) Makes me wonder if one of these days there really WON'T be a discount attached to a gimmick offer, but authors will order blindly, thinking there is, according to the number portion of the code.
today's 2nd email from PA said:Dear PAperback writer:
We will send your book to actor/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his consideration as a movie script. Arnold is term limited as California's governor. After November's elections he is expected to return to Hollywood, where he is a more powerful voice now than ever before.
Arnold Schwarzenegger remains one of the most successful movie actors since the 1980s even as he interrupted his career to run for governor in 2003. He has been known to regularly read books for their potential as a movie script, as most top actors do. He wrote several books himself.
Let's send Arnold a copy of your PAperback, together with a ringing endorsement from PublishAmerica.
Here's how we do it:
Go to www.publishamerica.net, find your book, use this discount coupon: Arnold. Minimum purchase volume is only 5 copies, one of which we will submit to Arnold Schwarzenegger's office while we'll ship the others to you. For orders of 9 or more copies, use the Arnold20 discount coupon, and we will actually submit two copies to Arnold.
We will immediately contact you as soon as Arnold Schwarzenegger or his office indicate his interest in your book!
Thank you,
--PublishAmerica Bookstore
We will immediately contact you as soon as Arnold Schwarzenegger or his office indicate his interest in your book!
LOL No kidding.Or when pigs fly. It'll be about the same time.
ok just got this email..promotion. I love how all their post on their website that ask about Barnes and Noble they give the answer it will come, the distributor needs time to get the books out ....well look at this email...figures don't it.
Dear author:
Barnes and Noble just called in this morning to stock multiple copies of multiple book titles.
If you want your book considered for stocking by Barnes and Noble, we will let those responsible for the purchase order know.
Softcovers only.
Go to www.publishamerica.net, find your softcover, use this discount coupon: B&N55, which gives you a discount that our industry typically reserves for bookstores only: 55 pct. Must order at least 4 copies. Use the coupon on your softcover only. All non-softcover orders under this coupon will not be processed, so you'd be wasting your money if you tried.
Your use of the B&N55 coupon will automatically cause your book to be recommended for stocking.
Thank you!
--PublishAmerica Bookstore
I laughed and then shook my head. I guess I am lucky in one respect Borders and Amazon have book listed but me thinks Barnes and Nobel might never have it.
Aren't those the people that are going to send books to Schwarzenegger? Oh wait, sorry, no, that's the OGT (Ongoing Gimmick Team). My bad.DaveKuzminski said:They don't have a sales team?