60,000 is a reasonable audience for some books, especially if there are also other markets. However, for many academic books, libraries are a very large and important market, sometimes the main market. Libraries are overall more likely customers than consumers, for some books.
I should add, for anyone who thinks that if they just put out an e-book on the net and the world will beat a path to their door, that only about 15% of book sales are currently made on the Internet. You have to sell books in the marketing climate of right now, not in one that may, or may not, exist in some years. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com > This, I think, is high. Since the non-member surcharge at events has > been in effect, the ratio in my area seems much closer to approximately > one non-member for every paid member. I think something in the range of > 60,000 members is reasonable and might even be a bit high. > > In standard book publishing circles, this is a small audience. However, > in academic book publishing circles, where many works struggle to sell > 500 copies, it's considered a decent-sized audience. > > Susan _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
