I hoped I’d never have to write this note. The recession has continued to have a very negative impact on sales at Salt and we’re finally having to go public to ask you to help support us.
Our sales are now 60% down on last year and have wiped out our grant and our cash reserves as we continue to market and publish what we can from what we believe is a great list. We’ve plans in place to help secure the business from November 2010 — though the books we’ll be publishing won’t deliver any real revenue until 2011. We’re sorry to ask, embarrassed to ask, but we need your help to survive until then and if you were considering purchasing a Salt book, we’d dearly love you to do it right now. We’ve less than one week’s cash left.
If you can help us, please do two things:
- Buy one book from us — we don’t mind from where, it can be from your local bookstore (they need your support, too), it can be from Amazon or the BookDepository. It can even be directly from us. But please buy that book now.
- Please tell everyone you know to do the same. Buy just one book and pass it on.
You can visit our Web site right now, simply go to
http://www.saltpublishing.com
and buy JustOneBook.
Remember too, that every book you buy gets a raffle ticket in our Big Summer Raffle — and you could win one copy each of the next 20 books we publish from 1 September.
Join us on Twitter and help spread the word.
God of the Pigeons winging my way…
Which gets you the most %age of that cash?
Buying direct or what?
It’s better for us if you buy from the BookDepository or Amazon.
Snow Calling coming from Amazon.
Done and done. Bought and word spread. Best of luck.
Done through Amazon. Hope things pick up enough to see you through to November.
Its my birthday next week and I’d already asked for books – can you give me 5 top reads to put on the top of my birthday list?!
I would gladly buy a book but I find your website very hard to navigate, not knowing whose book I want to buy. You have to navigate through so many pages and there isn’t even a one line description of each book on the summary. No feature a la Amazon, if you like that, try this. And the last book I bought from you was shite (not to my taste)
Make it easier to buy and more tempting, and maybe more people will.
Kate, I’m so sorry the site is too confusing. We’re looking at that and how we might change it. And I’m even sorrier that you didn’t enjoy the last book you purchased. We’ll try and do better.
Lorna – depends what you like, but for a balanced set:
The NEw generation, or Philip Gross Off Road to Everywhere
Shopgirl Diaries is really entertaining
The new children’s books are great – get mine
Jane Holland – Boudica is wonderful
Short stories – Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines
Angels Readman’s Strip is poetry but you can follow the story like a novel in the sequence at the heart of the book.
[...] Now it is back with “Just One (More) Book.“ [...]
I ordered directly from y’all (Ron Silliman’s “Tjanting”), but didn’t realize it might have benefited Salt more if I’d ordered through Amazon.
Nonetheless – thank you for what you do.
P.S. – I actually enjoyed navigating your site’s poetry catalog (unlike Emerging Writer) and found it more than sufficiently informative. I am finding “Tjanting” to be a challenging read, but if I determine it is not my cup of tea, then, I have to say, that’s all on me – I should be responsible for doing my own research.