{"id":18544,"date":"2019-08-17T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T14:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:56:56","slug":"have-you-read-my-book-expectation-vs-the-readers-goodwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/have-you-read-my-book-expectation-vs-the-readers-goodwill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHave you read my book?\u201d expectation vs. the reader\u2019s goodwill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u200bIn every social approach (Facebook \/ Twitter posts, even paid ads) of writers promoting their new published books, there is an unspoken \/ unwritten expectation: read my book. Furthermore, the promotion is often for a free download or a discounted price.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s assume the book is a page turner. The intrinsic recompense you get is the book itself. Your read and you enjoy it. And it\u2019s free. Is it?
Reading your book competes not only with other books but with all other activities I do in a day. It competes for a precious resource: my time. Even offering me a free book it\u2019s not enough. I know it\u2019s not what you expect to hear.\u00a0After all, it\u2019s your mind\u2019s baby in which you poured hours of work, your soul on paper.<\/p>\n

There are two interdependent reasons for this:<\/p>\n

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  1. We don\u2019t have a relationship. We don\u2019t have a history together. You haven\u2019t given me anything until now. Dropping a book on me is not enough. If you\u2019re a storyteller, start by writing the story of us becoming friends. Write a blog with articles that interest me. Comment on mine. Interact with me in social media, even once in a while. Because, if you don\u2019t know me, you compete with those people I know or attempted to know me. If I have to choose between a book you just posted in a Writer\u2019s Group and the book of a friend, you know what I\u2019ll choose. That friend was a Giver long before he gave me his book. If I have to choose between your book and that a famous writer, I\u2019ll choose hers because I already gave her my time for another book of hers and it was worth it.<\/li>\n
  2. But if you made the smallest effort to interact with me, even if I remember you for a funny comment on a Facebook post, I\u2019ll give you priority and consider you my friend. If this is the case, don\u2019t give the book for free or at a discount. If you don\u2019t give value to your work, I, as your friend, I\u2019ll tell it to your face: I won\u2019t give it too much value also. Therefore, ask me double the price. If I\u2019m your friend, I should not only read your book, but I should support you and show my appreciation by paying more.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you meet my expectations for being a Giver, or at least for making the effort, I will give back.<\/p>\n

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    Reading your book competes not only with other books but with all other activities I do in a day. It competes for a precious resource: my time. Even offering me a free book it\u2019s not enough. I know it\u2019s not what you expect to hear. After all, it\u2019s your mind\u2019s baby in which you poured hours of work, your soul on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6,109],"tags":[112,9,10,111,113,19,25,62,99,100,110,79,27],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-asengana","category-writing-life","tag-amwriting","tag-asengana","tag-book","tag-indieauthor","tag-novel-writing","tag-reader","tag-writer","tag-writers-way","tag-writers","tag-writing","tag-writing-software","tag-writingcommunity","tag-writinglife","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}