Spreuken over Succes

The kids are in their classes. When you find some success at Leto, the students and the faculty get behind them.

If the movie is a big success this weekend, I think you'll see a pretty big ramp in signings that theater owners want to get it in place before competitors do. Right now, the studios want this to succeed as much as anyone else. They want to be able to have a premium product with premium pricing.

[Has it been a success though, I ask.] I don't know, ... I don't have another first novel that wasn't pushed electronically to compare it to. But the book itself is doing very well. Looking at other publishers, a good example is Baen Books , who do a lot of multi volume series of books. From experience, they know how much volume 13 should sell based on the sales of boook 12. So when volume 13 comes out, they bundled a CD-Rom with eBook versions of the first 12 books. They also hosted these eBooks online for free. When this happens, the sales of volume 13 were beyond expectation, and volumes 1 through 12 see a bump in sales as well.

The minute you think you don't need to improve is the minute you have a huge problem.

We were trying to be world champs, so no. We had some success this season, but I wouldn't call it a success.