I caught up with Dave Cornthwaite – adventurer, author and motivational speaker – at the RGS Explore event recently. He’s an inspiring kind of guy and as a fellow author we chatted through the highs and lows of publishing and especially his new book DATE in which Dave decides to find a girlfriend by attempting to date 100 women in 100 days, the result is an emotional rollercoaster that threatened to turn his world inside out and upside-down.
It promises to be a great read and I’m gonna hit buy on my Kindle right now.
We also chatted about the benefits of traditional publishing versus e-Publishing. Specifically the finances, it goes a little something like this:
Traditional book cover price: £10 | Traditional royalties: 15% (on a good deal) = £1.5 per book.
Epub book cover price: £2.94 | Kindle royalties @ 70% of cover price = £2.05 per book (not including other e-publishers or print on demand).
With Dave’s homegrown audience from his Expedition 1000 project this is a great way for an explorer to write and publish books while retaining control of the marketing and availability. And as Expedition 1000 continues he’ll inevitably sell more and more copies. Don’t know what that is?
In Expedition 1000 Dave plans to raise a million pounds for charity by undertaking twenty-five separate journeys in excess of 1000 miles in distance, each using a different form of non-motorised transport. The project will cover every continent, cross the three major oceans and see Dave reach both poles, a true global adventure with a total distance equivalent to the circumference of the Earth around the Equator
Completed Expeditions
1) Skateboard, 2006: 3621 miles (www.boardfree.co.uk)
2) Kayak, 2009: 1540 miles (www.thegreatbigpaddle.com)
3) Tandem Bicycle, 2011: 1396 miles (see page)
4) Stand Up Paddleboard, 2011, 2404 miles (see page)
To find out more, read the book, get involved or donate check out www.davecornthwaite.com
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