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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2009 - 7:15am
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Frank,
There are more than enough photos in that area to do a book like that. Sometimes, you can make out numbers on the cockpit sides, on the front of the charthouse, on the turrets, on the air vents, some boats carried their numbers on their transoms or small numbers on the bow.
Alex Johnson tells me that Ron 10 boats carried their numbers on the bridge wings - go to www.pt171.org or .com and have a look ... there are ways to ID a boat.
The Tenders? They did carry numbers on the bow and aft, they just might be awfully small - but they're there ...
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wfzimmerman
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2009 - 9:24am
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Let me chime in with a publisher's perspective ... as I try to figure out the market for the two competing ideas, I am torn between two propositions:
1) publishers love to revisit genres, topics, etc. for the simple reason that it sells -- as Al Ross noted above, ALONG THE FRONT would hit the PT boat and WWiI Pacific market, which is something of a known topic.
2) but, conversely, it is always good to have the best and ideally the unique book on a particular topic.
With 4 PT books in print now and more coming, I have a fairly good idea of the size of the "PT" market for *me* (it would be different for other publishers, some smaller, some larger), but I have few numbers to help me gauge the size of the market for a book about the history of Elco pleasure boats.
Does anybody have any ideas on "comparable" books whose sales history I might compare? Any way of quantifying the size of Elco/pleasure craft audience that is *not* a part of the PT audience?
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alross2
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 Posted on: Jun 22, 2009 - 10:52am
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1) publishers love to revisit genres, topics, etc. for the simple reason that it sells -- as Al Ross noted above, ALONG THE FRONT would hit the PT boat and WWiI Pacific market, which is something of a known topic.
Does anybody have any ideas on "comparable" books whose sales history I might compare? Any way of quantifying the size of Elco/pleasure craft audience that is *not* a part of the PT audience?
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I wasn't clear with my initial response. My choice would be a book that addressed ELCO's early boats and the yachts. Frank's idea for covering the MLs and the yachts would add greatly to the literature.
As for getting a feel for he potential audience, you might consider reviewing "WoodenBoat" magazine's cumulative index of articles and some of the glitzier magazines like "The Rudder", "MotorBoating", and "Yachting". The defunct "Nautical Quarterly" might also be a source of info.
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wfzimmerman
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2009 - 1:36pm
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Thanks for the knowledgeable vote, Al.
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