Poor Barbara ! She hears the same thing from me in many different ways that it must get boring for her, but she generally agrees with my diagnoses. The guiding principle of our business life is to make as few stupid business decisions as humanely possible, and we've pretty much got that down pat. This principle also argues that if a genre, or author, is no longer worthwhile, we delete it from our inventory; if an approach does not work, we abandon it. For example, when we first moved here, we contracted for a years' advertising in the RJ. That was a stupid business decision, and we've not repeated it.
For the past year, we've been conducting two experiments: on-line selling, and this blog. The on-line sales have been quite worthwhile, and a source of income and pleasure, as we sell only items that are a hard sell in a store. This has not been the case with the blog. Given the lack of readership, input, and feedback, we have decided to put the poor blog out of its misery, and devote the time spent on it to a worthwhile endeavor. Ave atque Vale
Blogs can often be interesting, but there's a lot of dross among the gold (as is the case for most things). I think they're really electronic diaries and have to be viewed as being written for oneself -- if someone sees it along the way, that's cool, but you really can't bet that it will be a must-read. Of course that sucks if it's a good blog (it's a mercy if it's a wretched one, though).
ReplyDeleteSad to know I'll have to go back to web searches to get the kind of info on books and book collecting you've provided here. Hope you'll reconsider the decision sometime in the future.
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