Comments on: New Report Says Author Presence Online Is Important http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/12/new-report-says-author-presence-online-is-important/ Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: FerfeLaBat http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/12/new-report-says-author-presence-online-is-important/#comment-13172 FerfeLaBat Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:52:36 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/12/new-report-says-author-presence-online-is-important/#comment-13172 If I like a book I will go to their website to see what else they have available. If I REALY liked the book I will click the contact link and send an email thanking the author for the entertainment. So. In my case the author having a website does not usually lure me to try a book by that author initially but it is a tool to find more books once I've discovered the author. Except ... Do you think those figures are reflecting Ellora's Cave and the e-pubs stats? <strong>That</strong> is a great book shopping experience. Almost all of them provide link throughs to the author sites and you can scan through the reviews, snippets of their writing style and see what else they've written before clicking buy ... all with a glass of wine at midnight. Someone should take a poll and see what the percentages are for <strong>why</strong> readers visit author sites. I think the results would be interesting. If I like a book I will go to their website to see what else they have available. If I REALY liked the book I will click the contact link and send an email thanking the author for the entertainment.

So. In my case the author having a website does not usually lure me to try a book by that author initially but it is a tool to find more books once I’ve discovered the author. Except …

Do you think those figures are reflecting Ellora’s Cave and the e-pubs stats? That is a great book shopping experience. Almost all of them provide link throughs to the author sites and you can scan through the reviews, snippets of their writing style and see what else they’ve written before clicking buy … all with a glass of wine at midnight.

Someone should take a poll and see what the percentages are for why readers visit author sites. I think the results would be interesting.

]]> By: Rosario http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/12/new-report-says-author-presence-online-is-important/#comment-13140 Rosario Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:13 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/12/12/new-report-says-author-presence-online-is-important/#comment-13140 Very interesting. I expected that the number would probably be a bit higher than was generally supposed, but I didn't expect it would be as high as this. Though I'd be very interested to know what the number is for "usually visit authors' websites" as opposed to "visited one author's website once". Very interesting. I expected that the number would probably be a bit higher than was generally supposed, but I didn’t expect it would be as high as this. Though I’d be very interested to know what the number is for “usually visit authors’ websites” as opposed to “visited one author’s website once”.

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