Promotion idea for the taking...
March 12, 2009 Last Saturday I was listening to the rock and roll show, Sound Opinions and they mentioned how some musicians (like Prince) are giving away their CDs at their concerts. So you get a free CD with your ticket. Some musicians are doing even more -- they're giving away their entire backlist.
My question: Would something like this work for authors? What if three authors hosted a ticketed event and everyone who bought a ticket got the books of all three authors for free? One of the authors would have to be someone who draws a crowd, but the other two could be up-and-comers. $10 and you get to hear the authors read, you get all three of their books (maybe paperbacks) and the authors sign the books too.
I guess what this does is help launch people who are relatively unknown. You'd be pairing a name with 2 unknowns.
The bigger question: How would you get the publishers to agree to it? But that aside, what do you think? Would it work?
Reader Comments (1)
That's a great idea! I think so long as the ticket price was at or below the cost of all three books, plus you get all those other extras, I'm sure the event would take off. I'm going to bring this up the MN SCBWI. We're hoping to do a book fair sometime in the future and ideas like this might garner some interest.