Dear friend:
(I could not find your real name anywhere in your blog, so I am just going to go ahead and call you my friend for now, hope you don't mind!)
The real reason behind the " gift" book is that I purchased this self-publishing plan from UDN, since I have never published a book before, I have absolutely no experience in whatever I am doing. Also, I am not sure how many readers will actually want to buy my book, so I decided to purchase the cheapest plan with the least amount of copies, which is 10 books for NTD $3,999. ( NTD $399/book)
Now, I need to send 2 copies out of the 10 to the Library of Congress for filing purpose, that leaves me with 8 copies at hand.
If I want to sell the books, I will have to ask for at least NTD $399 a book, which is a fair price here in the US, but not over there in Taiwan. People will think that I am trying to rip them off! And to be honest, it is never my intension to make money out of my writings. I am far ffrom professional, and I don't think people should pay me money to read my stories.
I decided to publish my articles, so that they can reach older people like my own father, who has never in his life read a story that I wrote.
Some people simply don't live with computers.
I would like my heart-to-heart conversations through words to go out to my grandmother, to my anuts, my uncles, my loved ones, that they can always read my stories whenever they wish, without having to figure out how to turn on the computers first.
I am old-fashioned, and probably will always be.
That is why I cannot charge you money for my book. It is simply too expensive!
Hope this message explains every details.
Have a great weekend, my friend!
Love, Allison
