33 1/3 Series of books

can you buy them all for a penny on amazon? that's a true test of something or other.

do they keep the old ones in print? and now with new ownership do all the old titles get reissued? i have a lot of questions apparently.

Last time I checked, no. xp

I saw a little rack of them in Walgreens the other day.

No, I'm just kidding.

I've also seen some for sale in a couple of record shops, too. Which seems like a good idea.

Yeah, Reckless has a nice rack right up at the register thats usually pretty well stocked with these. I'm constantly tempted, but when I remember how much I'm already spending on records I refrain. I did get the Pet Sounds one for Christmas though.

nobody goes to record shops though.

wait, that's just my store. today. okay, all week. sold two copies of Yeti this week though.

I do. I'd go to yours if it wasn't in the wrong continent.

The Chapters in Montreal (well, one of them) has had a huge wall display of them on my last two trips there. I left with an armful both times.

"5. A one-page sheet of how you would help Bloomsbury Academic market your book – websites/forums/listservs you’d contact directly; any artist involvement you might expect; any college-level courses on which you think your book could be used, and so on;"

hmmm

that's why the carl wilson one has sold so well

Rocktology 101: It's All About the Music, Man.

I bought the - admittedly pretty awful - ABBA one in a charity shop in Portsmouth for 50p. Halcyon days.

"Hey guys write us some textbooks on the cheap, will ya?"

http://33third.blogspot.com/p/complete-list-of-33-13-series_27.html

my dream gig would be to co-author a 33 1/3 Return to the 36 Chambers and try to recreate the circumstances surrounding the Wu at the time and the vibe in the studio. interweave that with a track by track breakdown and ODB's history from cradle to grave. Would require a shit-ton of interviews and research; always thought of it as a two-man job.
Anybody wanna discuss?

and i like elizabeth's ABBA book actually

^would read.

i want a d'angelo "voodoo" one written ?uestlove (or someone with full access)

xp

yeah, i do too; just think that the wounds are too fresh for that to get made. D is gonna either have to have a miraculous comeback or die before anyone wants to discuss the story.

"A one-page sheet of how you would help Bloomsbury Academic market your book"

1. sell book to book stores.

J0hn D's Masters of Reality is a totally entertaining work of fiction. was not expecting that but have totally enjoyed reading whilst listening to Sabbaf

Who is aero? Which one did he/she write?

lol

Sick M. -- your question was implicitly answered by the post immediately before it.

sick mouthy - she did the Get a Grip one

open secret but still secret enough that i deleted your post

Meantime, regarding the questions about royalties and all, John Mark Boling, who does work with 33 1/3 and Continuum/Bloomsbury, passed on this to me just now:

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...the conversation (ILM folks are) having raises a lot of wonderful questions which we would be more than happy to answer and clarify for everyone to see if they were willing to ask them on the blog or on our facebook page. There is obviously much that needs clarification, especially on the royalties vs. advances front. Publishing was a weird, complicated business even before it was in crazy depression/recession mode, and the situation deserves a little elucidation...

The respective pages:

http://33third.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/33.3books

wait, i'm in public? o right...

damn, my self-imposed "no pumpkins bashing" rule gets broken over and over on ilm. please forgive me. but i blame anyone who mentions them, really.

know that you are not alone in believing that this band has always been completely worthless

Not completely worthless, no.

it's just too easy. and as everyone knows its too easy to be too easy on the internet. *2 easy 2 b 2 easy on the internet*. prince's worst song ever.

lol

know that you are not alone in believing that this band has always been completely worthless

Indeed you are not.

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10400000/you-are-not-alone-michael-jackson-music-videos-10472508-512-384.jpg

Okay I really regret mentioning the album I'd write about. But thanks for helping me decide whether to pitch or not.

do it! don't let a couple of ILM blowhards get you down!

Haha, I understand the impulse behind stuff like that and, even as a lapsed huge Pumpkins stan, I can appreciate why they are thought so badly of, but Siamese Dream was like such a crucial piece of me getting through some really awful times that I get weirdly defensive about it.

hey if people came on here bashing Crazy Rhythms i'd get defensive too. not that anyone would *ever* bash that record.

True true.

*2 easy 2 b 2 easy on the internet*. prince's worst song ever.

well done

I don't think the "requirements" were quite so explicit when I pitched mine last time around, but that said - as someone who worked in publishing and saw a lot of proposals, the best ones had all that info whether we explicitly asked or not.

The no advance thing is kind of a bummer. Mine was quite small but it was still enough to help me make a trip to Louisville for interviews and I was able to put a decent amount toward a new computer too.

Tyler, I don't think the Feelies are too obscure! Go for it.

yeah i mean those are the kind of requirements MOST publishers would ask of in a pitch for a non-fiction book. stuff like how you would market it, whether it could be taught in a college course, those are legit and valid questions and if they'd asked them before maybe they wouldn't have had to cancel a few titles after accepting the pitch.

Yeah, Reckless has a nice rack right up at the register thats usually pretty well stocked with these. I'm constantly tempted, but when I remember how much I'm already spending on records I refrain. I did get the Pet Sounds one for Christmas though.

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btw bonus points for using the phrase "nice rack" in a completely sincere way to describe a bookshelf

rofl

"yeah i mean those are the kind of requirements MOST publishers would ask of in a pitch for a non-fiction book. stuff like how you would market it, whether it could be taught in a college course, those are legit and valid questions and if they'd asked them before maybe they wouldn't have had to cancel a few titles after accepting the pitch."

i agree! seems like the least someone should do when submitting a proposal.

I can't believe I didn't notice that when I typed it, lol. xp

See, after being explicitly told that my pitch was all right but that the series would NEVER publish a book about Cheap Trick, I kind of lost all interest.

would excitedly read about a book about cheap trick fwiw

yeah, wtf...a cheap trick book re: almost ANY of their pre-90s albums would be worth buying/reading imo