{"id":3662,"date":"2014-07-30T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2014-07-30T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:50:08","slug":"what-influences-amreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/what-influences-amreading\/","title":{"rendered":"What influences you to buy a book? #amreading #poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me cheating a bit with a poll today. I&#8217;m deep into a major rewrite of <em>Sex, Lies &amp; Wedding Bells<\/em>, and haven&#8217;t had time to be online much. I will be back this weekend, with news, excerpts and maybe a sneak peek or two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ts1.mm.bing.net\/th?&amp;id=HN.608034757939891978&amp;w=300&amp;h=300&amp;c=0&amp;pid=1.9&amp;rs=0&amp;p=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"241\" \/>What influences you to buy a book?<\/h2>\n<p>This is the magic question for authors and publishers. We try so many different ways to tell readers about our books, but which ones really work? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out. Whether you are a reader or an author, please let me know what influences you. I will compile the results into a later post with some discussion.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would love to see a lot of reader comments on the topic. What&#8217;s the best way for us to give you the information you need to make a decision? Or would you rather get information from friends, peers and &#8220;neutral&#8221; sources?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leave a comment about any of these issues for a chance to win an e-book from my <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/my-books-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">backlist<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/8216412.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/8216412\/\">What influences you to buy a book? (choose all that apply)<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h3>For the most important factor, I&#8217;m trying to go beyond cover, blurb, and except, since we know those are important. Which of these social and external factors most affect your decision?<\/h3>\n<p>[BTW, &#8220;other&#8221; in the following poll stems from people combining several items into one, so it doesn&#8217;t reflect a true most important factor. I&#8217;ve disabled the option to add your own answer, but if there is one specific thing I haven&#8217;t mentioned here, please leave a comment.]<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/8216416.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/8216416\/\">Which is the most important influence for you?<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What keeps you from buying a book?<\/h2>\n<p>There are plenty of books we don&#8217;t want to buy, for a variety of reasons. Why might you decide not to buy a book, besides the obvious that you aren&#8217;t interested in the subject matter? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please add your own answer if it&#8217;s not listed and feel free to add comments, rants, raves, etc. I&#8217;m even more interested in this topic!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/8216461.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/8216461\/\">What turns you off about a book? (choose all that apply)<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the magic question for authors and publishers. We try so many different ways to tell readers about our books, but which ones really work? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out. Whether you are a reader or an author, please let me know what influences you. I will compile the results into a later post with some discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[506,64,587,538,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","category-discussion","category-feature-article","category-marketing","category-poll"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/070533-glossy-black-3d-button-icon-alphanumeric-icon_091.png?fit=512%2C512","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-X4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}