Today I was thinking a lot about how things change over time. One publishing house gets absorbed by another. Marketing strategies change over time. Past information is lost.
Thinking about how a marketing strategy may change over time is making me want to pick an older publication for my second assignment as my first one is fairly recent. I’m curious to see what a completely different time period would look like in terms of marketing and financing a publication. I would also want to see how popularity of a publication could ebb and flow with time.
As for the publication I am doing for the first assignment, I’m starting to wonder how hard it will be for me to find information about it. The Starless Sea is just over five years old so there hasn’t been a lot of time for things to change in terms of its marketing over time. As far as I’m aware the book’s success was pretty middle of the road, quite a few people have read it, but it is by no means extremely popular.
I’m excited to see what I can learn before Sunday about this book and what went into getting it in my hands.
