PEEL SESSIONS going cheap!

[ken garner]

that's right, tony: thebookpeople have apparently bought a truck load 
of copies of the book from the publishers and are flogging it in 
their November catalogue & online - I even made the front page! - for 
the ridiculous price of £4.99, for which kind of book club sales my 
royalties my contract tells me will be pro rata, which at 5% means I  
trouser a whopping 25p per sale. I don't care. This company only 
stock and sell books they think they can shift tons of, and hence get 
a huge trade discount on the price from the publishers. So if it 
means more people who might like it get to know it exists, or their 
loved ones get it for them for Christmas, I'm happy. My sister got a 
copy in Hampshire, as did my Dad, and now you, so that's a good sign. 
I reckon the way the direct mail industry works that catalogue must 
have gone into more than half a million homes, so if just 3% of 
households say their cat prefers it to shredded wheat, we'll sell 
out. Mind you, they've already dropped it from their latest Christmas 
special edition catalogue, which fell out of the Guardian on Saturday

ken


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, tony donaghey <tonydonaghey@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken
>   Not being ofay with the workings of the publishing industry but 
we just got a mailshot from a book club with your book listed at £4.99
>   Tony
>