samsloan wrote:
On Feb 24, 9:05 pm, johnny_t wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote:
I am about to publish a book about bridge. However, somebody told me
that nobody plays bridge any more.
Is that true? Is bridge play up or down?
Would it be a waste of my time and money to publish a book about
bridge?
Sam Sloan
There is probably at least a viable market for reprints of historically
interesting out-of-copyright bridge books. The key is to give rebirth
to the historically interesting part.

You have done it with chess books, I see no reason you can't expand in
the same vein.

Yes. That exactly is what I plan to do.

Personally, I do not know the difference between a heart and a spade.

Sam Sloan

I don't think you really need to know much, this is essentially a found
money kind of venture, and the question is whether you're finding
pennies, quarters, or dollars.

There is an opportunity/time cost for you to find, package and publish,
but it is a numbers game. You're out there at the end of the long tail
investing your time, and particular expertise of finding, publishing,
and marketing these things.

There are worse ways to make a living for sure. Whether there *is* a
living here, is an interesting question, but I suspect so.

Good luck.