Re: "Podcasting" and screwing over your manuscript submission chances

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:58:19 -0700, David Friedman
<ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <11iohumgbnbiq9d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Patricia C. Wrede" <pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Using prior electronic
>> distribution to prove to an editor that your ms. is good enough to buy and
>> publish ... well, as I said, it's almost certainly not going to help (any
>> more than saying "My kids love this book!" will help you sell your ms. to a
>> children's book publisher), but it really depends on whether or not you
>> generate sales.
>
>What if you only generated hits?
>
>Judging by number of visitors per day, my web site is much more
>successful than my (moderately successful) published non-fiction books.
>As it happens, it has a lot of different things on it--but suppose all
>it had on it were stories I had written? If a couple of thousand people
>a day were looking at them, do you think a publisher would take that as
>evidence that a significant number of people would buy them?

Hit counters are notoriously unreliable, however. People have been
known to write programs to fetch the contents of their own web sites,
over and over every few seconds, in order to inflate their hit counts,
so a publisher is not likely to take a hit count as a very reliable
indication of how many people are reading material. On the other
hand, if you are talking about a site where people have to sign in
before reading, and the software keeps track of how many distinct user
ID's have viewed a particular page, this would have somewhat better
credibility (but still could possibly be spoofed).

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