Literotica must be catching on

[cymbidia]

I don't think 170,000 visitors daily is an unrealistic number for the daily amount of hits to this site. Even if 75% of them are actually rerun hits (as per Weird Harold: same people, several visits daily, dynamic ISP assignment each visit), that still leaves over 42,000 distinctly different people visiting here daily.

There's likely LOTS more people who come just to read the stories, or to play in the sticky sandbox of the interactive stories, then who ever venture to post anything on the Board. Since i was one of them for a very long time, way over a year, i know it's true.

And whether the number is 42,000 or 170,000, there's still a LOT of people cruising this place and the number is likely increasing all the time. Kudos, Laurel.

 

[Ulyssa]

Silly me.

A day or two back I suggested that Laurel and Manu needed a bad guy to protect them from outraged authors. I was wrong.

Little did I know at that time that everyone else had put Deborah into that particular sentry box already.

You'll do well my little gunsel.

 

[Laurel]

Don't get caught up in the numbers game. How many of you check back and forth on the bulletin board five or six times per day? Granted not all the visitors are the mad cap lot here on the author's pages, but if you divide 170,000 by 6 then the hits actually look a little more realistic--28,333..

No, that number - 170,000 - is the 'unique' visitors to the site, as tracked via cookies, special counters, and other means by our software. The number of actual pageviews we get per day when you count repeats and reloads is almost 10 pages per person per day - around 1.5 million.

No, I'm not joking. Yes, I'm as shocked as you are. Why do you think we're installing a third server?

As far as the eBook thing, it's not meant to put the authors up in big apartments in Manhattan. It's simply there to help compensate them - in whatever small way - for their efforts. People DO buy things regularly from our toy store and our other sponsors. If they didn't, we wouldn't be able to pay our bandwidth. We plan to keep the ebook cost low. More than anything, we want to promote the concept of ebooks and the idea that an author can make money from his or her work without the need for a publishing house or agent. We're indie like that.

Will people actually buy ebooks? I have no idea. But if I worried about stuff like that, I'd never have put this site up in the first place. "No one will ever come to my 20-page website with 10 stories on it, so why bother?" I think that's an attitude that stops people from ever doing anything interesting - they get bogged down in the million ways it won't work, instead of just doing it. I learned more from my failures than my successes - most importantly, that it's a waste of time to fear failure.

We're just going to set this up and see what happens. I doubt it will be a huge money-making success at first - or ever - but maybe over time it will grow into something that that'll pay the author's cable modem bills every month. Or not - who knows? There's nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

 

[Laurel]

Silly me.

A day or two back I suggested that Laurel and Manu needed a bad guy to protect them from outraged authors. I was wrong.

Little did I know at that time that everyone else had put Deborah into that particular sentry box already.

You'll do well my little gunsel.

LMAO! No one put her there - she climbed right into the box all on her own. She's nothing if not self-motivated.

 

[Deborah]

Laurel, did you forget how much you are paying me a month or do I have to go find that thread where you admitted it?

Ulyssa, I think your analysis and analogy between e-books and the dot com situation is ridiculous. Just expressing my opinion if that's OK with you.

Books have been around about 5,000 years. First as hierogylphics in Egypt and cuneiform on clay tablets in Mesopotamia. Some say the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg over 500 years ago was the world's greatest invention. Made books available to other than the wealthy.

I look at e-books as just another technological innovation in the long list of them regarding the written word. But what do I know and what do I care anyway. I go to Barnes & Noble and sit there for hours reading books for free.

 

[Whispersecret]

As far as the eBook thing, it's not meant to put the authors up in big apartments in Manhattan.

Fine! Burst my little bubble, Laurel! Now, I have to tell my real estate agent to stop looking around for me. DAMN.

 

[Ulyssa]

I have this wonderful recipe for the preparation of crow.
I believe I shall go eat a generous portion right now. I thank everyone who corrected my pessimistic little calculator.

Peace to you all!

 

[Laurel]

Deb earns her salary, that's for sure. But I think she'd do it for free. She loves her job THAT MUCH.

WS - sorry, love. Maybe if a bunch of you chip in your earnings, you can get a Manhattan studio apartment and we can all be roomies. I'd almost move to the East Coast for that. Oh, the parties we'd have...

Ulyssa - please don't stop giving your unvarnished, undiluted opinion, no matter how many heads you butt with. We love head-butting around here. It's legal under our rules. So's hair-pulling.

The site grows through feedback, so bring it on girls & guys!

 

[Mark Singer]

My concern...

My concerns primarily center around my accountant and the tax ramifications of adding this second income to my soon-to-be-streaming lottery winnings. Possibly the best course of action is to start actually giving dollars to some of those guys standing on the exit ramps and writing that part off.
The thought of rolling in all this money is giving me a stress headache!

At the same time though, the e-book site looks good, L & M.
Kudos for having the cajones!