{"id":41219,"date":"2022-10-17T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41219"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:23:39","slug":"a-great-example-of-promotional-success-backing-up-artistic-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41219","title":{"rendered":"A great example of promotional success backing up artistic talent."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"q-box qu-mb--small\">\n<div class=\"q-text qu-dynamicFontSize--regular qu-fontWeight--bold qu-color--gray_dark_dim qu-passColorToLinks qu-lineHeight--regular qu-wordBreak--break-word\">\n<div class=\"q-click-wrapper qu-display--block qu-tapHighlight--white qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline ClickWrapper___StyledClickWrapperBox-zoqi4f-0 iyYUZT\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"q-flex qu-flexDirection--row\">\n<div class=\"q-inline qu-flexWrap--wrap\">\n<div class=\"q-text puppeteer_test_question_title\"><span class=\"q-box qu-userSelect--text\">I swear every primary school library has 3 million Isaac Asimov books. Why are certain authors prevalent but it&#8217;s harder to find say, Proust, Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, or even Camus in libraries? Is it somehow related to copyright laws?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"q-text\">\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">Let me tell you a secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">From the 1950s when he was forced out of his teaching job until his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov, without fail, met with his publisher (he used the same one for all his fiction and non-fiction works) on the same day every single week without fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">The purpose of these meetings was to discuss book sales and publishing runs. During his lifetime, Asimov dominated the authoritative work in publishing \u201cBooks in Print\u201d that was published every year showing which works were still in print runs and could be ordered directly from the publisher. No library or book store was without it. During his lifetime, almost all of his 500 books could be ordered directly from his publisher and it was only after his death that they cut back the number of his titles that were available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">Asimov, who was not fond of travelling, was still constantly on the go to promote his own works, both fiction and non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">So, say you\u2019re a librarian looking to add some titles. Call up Asimov\u2019s publisher and they will give you a great deal on the complete set of his works. In addition to filling up your fiction section, Asimov wrote works that could be included in 9 of the 10 major Dewey Decimal classifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">But back in the day, similarly, Asimov had so many titles he would dominate the Sci-Fi section of most bookstores.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear every primary school library has 3 million Isaac Asimov books. Why are certain authors prevalent but it&#8217;s harder to find say, Proust, Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, or even Camus in libraries? Is it somehow related to copyright laws? Let me tell you a secret. From the 1950s when he was forced out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A great example of promotional success backing up artistic talent.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41220,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41219\/revisions\/41220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}