PUBLISHERS AND BEAD-BUYERS | 2006-05-03
I just wrote a piece of wisdom on how to get published.
When Whitaker Online first started, I wrote an article called "The Bead Buyers."
"The Bead Buyers" discusssed the sort of wisdom I offered you about publication today. As an old hand with great experience I told you the inside story of how publication works.
In the "Bead Buyers" I told you the inside wisdom that a real expert would give you about making a fortune in dealing with the Bead Buying Tribe.
The expert you hired would explain to you that the Bead Buyers were only interested inthe bead they stuck in their noses. The expert woud explain to you which color of beads they loved in their noses.
Your expert would explain to you, in detail, exactly how to deal practically with these bead buyers.
But the expert never said that the bead-buyers were bright.
Am expert on Latin American business will tell you they don't DO things unless you approach them just right.
They miss EVERYTHING as long as you know Senor Pincillado and know how to take your time.
So when the real world gets to them, it rolls over them like a tak over a chariot.
But the expert has to keep in good with the South American businessman, so he doesn't SHOW any contempt for them.
The bead-buyers and the New York publishers are hopeless rubes.
Without their monopoly status, they wouldn't last a week in the real world.