There are now PDF versions of Let’s All Find Awesome Jobs, The Location Scout, and Touch Anything Except Me for sale in the store. I don’t know. We’ll see. There was a whole debate about this. Kevin has Opinions, which he’ll probably unpack on his own site. Anyways there was a bunch of shouting, oaths were sworn, we need to buy a new Ikea bookshelf, and this is the result.
I mean I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
One of the people at the Harvard Square post office noted the logo on our outgoing packages and suggested we change our name from “Cold God Press” to “Hot Off the God Press”. I actually kind of love it?
Some day I will write down the story of how I got in a screaming match about semantics with someone at the Central Square post office and can now never go back.
Yo you cop that new rounded-corners jawn
God bless the goddamn internet.
The Kindle version of Let’s All Find Awesome Jobs is now a thing that exists on the Amazon.com website.
Next I’m supposed to figure out how to create an EPUB version for the Apple iPad. My argument was that people who have money to buy iPads probably aren’t the target demographic for this book. Kevin accused me of being “racist.” I explained that I would need him to purchase an iPad for the office so that I could properly test the book out. He said he would do just that, but he’s been staring at his computer for 30 minutes now and he’s got that look on his face that he gets when he doesn’t understand the new Achewood.
—D
Working on the new version of kevinfanning.com. It’s weird how certain activities balance “stressful/annoying” with “super boring.”
After this comes the Kindle version of LAFAJ. And then PDF versions of older books that have fallen out of print. And then I have to figure out what an EPUB is, and whether his books need to be in that format as well. This is necessary for people with iPads, apparently. Meanwhile we’re out of coffee. Kevin said if I run out and buy some he’ll include my reimbursement in my “next paycheck”. I would have done it, too, if the air quotes hadn’t tipped me off.
The Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity business card. Very controversial item. We’ve been getting a lot of emails about it.*
Kevin’s idea was that we (I) would insert them into copies of Let’s All Find Awesome Jobs. Figure: maybe if they like the writing they’ll be interested in reading other things he’s written, even if that other stuff is less traditionally “useful.” Or figure: once he’s helped people find awesome jobs they’ll likely want to spend their hard-earned on a collection of folktales starring the lady from the celebrity news blogs.
As a cost-saving measure Kevin felt it made sense to only insert these cards into copies of LAFAJ for people who hadn’t already purchased JLHXI. This would of course involve a certain amount of spreadsheet-maintaining and cross-checking.
What Kevin failed to consider was that it would be easier for me to just include one in every copy, no matter what.
There. An update to a website no one reads, answering a question no one asked. I have a master’s degree, you know.
*We have been getting no emails about it.
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Coño, mira.
Kevin got his first check from Amazon recently. There’s been some heated discussion on the internet of late, about e-book pricing and the Kindle vs the iPad and the future of digital publishing and so forth, and since I’m kind of just sitting around waiting for the printers to call, I thought I would share with you some actual real-world data.
(Is data something the internet likes? I can’t tell. There’s a lot of excitement around pie charts and Venn diagrams, but facts seem to be held in very low regard. It’s hard to credit.)
But so. Kevin’s first books were available for the Kindle in September 2009. From September 2009 through December 2009 here’s what he sold:
34 copies total. Keep in mind these were all “priced to move” at $1.99 or less, loss-leaders in the long-term business of kfan llc, if you will.
What Amazon grossed from these sales: $53.66
What Kevin netted: $18.90
(What Kevin shared with me: $0, but even I can hardly blame him. This dollar amount would be particularly attractive to someone who still buys CDs.)
Ways to interpret the data:
Anyways there you are, a peek beneath the dataskirts. Oops, that caught your attention, didn’t it, internet. I googled “LOLcat Upskirt” to find a funny picture to post at the end here, but that turned out to be quite the rabbithole.
