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I was checking whether the look of the page needed updating when I saw that the number of views had gone well past the million mark. No idea when this happened but that number of views leaves me with the eternal questions:
1. Why goes no one bother commenting?
2. If so many people are interested in the subject matter on this blog WHY does that not lead to book sales?
Okay, with 1 it might be that people simply cannot be bothered or, since this blog has a world wide audience, maybe they are not comfortable writing in English? You can comment in another language as I do have Google translate.
With 2...,it beats me. People will buy books that are badly researched or contain fabrications. My books are fully referenced and often contain more than a few "lost" or never before seen photographs. The people who have read them are embarrassingly complimentary.
The books were supposed to be my way of earning money and that failed. No support, no sponsorship (I have tried) and no book sales to me count as a failure. I have gone over one million views so perhaps that is a good point to just stop blogging here?
I would ask what you think but after 20 years of no responses I feel I might be wasting my breath.
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