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Re: Has anyone seen THIS pitch?
Posted By: knotwork In Response To: Re: Has anyone seen THIS pitch? (Bill Reed)
Date: Friday, 24 June 2005, at 2:08 a.m.
> Now my poroblem with the above is that you have no idea what the product
> is about and yet you were quick to label it garbage. How do you decide if
> something is garbage if you by your own admission do not have a clue what
> it is about?> In regards to telling you what the method the book refers to is, I find it
> absurd that you expect the sales copy to give you that information. There
> are thousands of ebooks sold every day on the Internet that are selling
> nothing more than information on how to do something better or more
> effectively
> in order to increase either your sales or the anmount of traffic to ones
> site.
> They do not give you the method itself in the sales copy do they?
> If those ebooks give you the information that does what they promise then
> they
> are worth every dime they cost regardless if they are 10 pages or 100
> pages
> long.> Now if they gave that information away in the sales copy then there would
> be
> no point in buying the product would there.> The Why Didn't I think Of That sales copy and the ebook are the same
> situation.Maybe it is simply a drawback to using the internet to buy books. When I am in a bookshop I can very simply look up the precise point that bothers me in the index, flip to those pages of the book, and flip through to find out the exact details of the exact part I am dubious about. If it does turn out to be simply a re-statement of something that I already know I can still judge the quality of the ewxposition to decide whether - even though I already know the material myself - the book might be better than others that I know of as far being of potential use to recommend to others. If it really is something that is new to me I might well buy the book right away.
That situation happens a lot in various areas I have some knowledge in. Quite often over the years I have happened across a book that really isn't saying much - if anything - that is new and yet nonetheless I buy several copies to give away to other people because I find that the way they put the information is better than various previous expositions I have seen of the same material.
But whether I find the mateiral to be completely new or merely a good exposition of something already known, I usually have at least a quick look at at least a few crucial spots within the book before I buy it and especially before choosing it as one to go out and buy copies of for a bunch of other people in the field whom I think also ought to read it.
It is simply normal when buying a book to be able to zero in on any page(s) of it that one might be dubious and check them out - to check whatever points one feels are crucial - before buying the book.
The fact that I cannot usually do that on the internet might explain why I still buy almost all my books from brick and mortar bookshops instead of via the internet.
-MarkM-
-MarkM-
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