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website updates, and spending money
May. 3rd, 2006 07:46 pmThe website overhaul continues. Today's major item was adding cover art thumbnails and review snippets to the "recent sales and publications" section on the Fiction index page. With any luck it now looks prettier in graphical browsers while still being usable in text browsers.
I'm debating whether to use some of those "my book was reviewed by...!" logos that are handed out by the romance review sites. I don't know whether they make the slightest bit of difference to people actually buying the book, and they'd increase the bandwidth - some of them are suprisingly large. My view is that graphics have to earn their keep. I still occasionally get to use a pay-per-minute dialup access, and in those circumstances one notices when websites are covered with irrelevant graphics. Do any of you lot feel that you would be more inclined to buy a book just because there was a "my book was reviewed by...!" logo on the website?
Is it just me, or has the Google cache disappeared?
Bought the Dahle 507K trimmer yesterday--$63, shipping included. It's the 12" model in the personal trimmer range rather than the pro-grade one, but I can't justify paying three times as much for the pro grade model. The 507K version is the basic 507 plus three extra cutting heads to do the fancy edges, which I thought worth the extra $15 over the basic version.
Note from publisher saying that the contracts are going to be changed. Better phone friend to see if her friend the agent is willing to do another one-off on looking over a contract for stuff I might regret later.
Someone's given me an "Unhelpful" rating on a book review posted at Amazon. My feeling is that this is out of spite. Wonder if I personally have pissed someone off, or if it's one of those episodes where someone gives a negative rating to every review that doesn't agree completely with their own views? I've actually seen people boast about going through all the reviews handing out negative ratings to reviews that conflicted with their opinions. I should probably add a little something about this to the rant-in-waiting about how reviews should give guidance to other people as to whether the book would be worthwhile for them. It's quite possible for a reviewer to have a different opinion about a book to mine, and yet say useful and intelligent things about it.
I'm debating whether to use some of those "my book was reviewed by...!" logos that are handed out by the romance review sites. I don't know whether they make the slightest bit of difference to people actually buying the book, and they'd increase the bandwidth - some of them are suprisingly large. My view is that graphics have to earn their keep. I still occasionally get to use a pay-per-minute dialup access, and in those circumstances one notices when websites are covered with irrelevant graphics. Do any of you lot feel that you would be more inclined to buy a book just because there was a "my book was reviewed by...!" logo on the website?
Is it just me, or has the Google cache disappeared?
Bought the Dahle 507K trimmer yesterday--$63, shipping included. It's the 12" model in the personal trimmer range rather than the pro-grade one, but I can't justify paying three times as much for the pro grade model. The 507K version is the basic 507 plus three extra cutting heads to do the fancy edges, which I thought worth the extra $15 over the basic version.
Note from publisher saying that the contracts are going to be changed. Better phone friend to see if her friend the agent is willing to do another one-off on looking over a contract for stuff I might regret later.
Someone's given me an "Unhelpful" rating on a book review posted at Amazon. My feeling is that this is out of spite. Wonder if I personally have pissed someone off, or if it's one of those episodes where someone gives a negative rating to every review that doesn't agree completely with their own views? I've actually seen people boast about going through all the reviews handing out negative ratings to reviews that conflicted with their opinions. I should probably add a little something about this to the rant-in-waiting about how reviews should give guidance to other people as to whether the book would be worthwhile for them. It's quite possible for a reviewer to have a different opinion about a book to mine, and yet say useful and intelligent things about it.