Editing The Pen Addict 283/transcript (section)

== Ambition Notebook ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I get it, right? Like, for whatever reason, like, if I remember rightly, you did like Ambition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but I never used it. I thought it was cool, but yeah. You see, I could see myself using two-thirds of this, right? Like, the to-do book, like, that makes a lot of sense for me, right? Like, I would write a list, right? And I just check off the items on the list. Like, I like that. And I like that the lines are in contrasting colors in the page, right? So it's just, like, an easy way to see line by line all of the items. See, I like this book. I would use it. I would be more likely to use it. And Edina is going to go crazy when I give her the other pack. I know she's going to just freak out over these ones.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, see, I don't... The reason I wouldn't use the to-do list and why I don't use the word to-do list, because I don't need a continuation to-do list, right? This is essentially one large list. You can break it up and, you know, do different things. But I see this as a continuation list where today I have five things, and then I have to figure out a way to break it up till tomorrow, which, you know, that's not a... I mean, that's a me problem, not a notebook problem. You know, you just put the next date on the list, but this is the way I see things, right? So I would never use that. But the daily one, the weekly one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' 35,000 packs. Wow. It's a big one. They've done this before. No, it is matching with their biggest ever. So Lunacy and Utility were both 35. I'm expecting that this is because they're doing something with the paper again, which means that they needed to... Like, you know, we were talking about this on the show, right? About the... They were kind of doing something and pressing their own paper, and it might be something like that would be my expectation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So... Like for the covers. I don't think so with this one, because that's the last... Oh, with the covers, maybe. Yeah. But the interior paper is something they've never used before, and honestly, I'm a little bit concerned with it because it's a partially recycled paper, and I don't know how those are going to act. So this is going to be a wait and see. It's a Domtar Earth Choice, and I went and looked up some of the specs on it. So it's nothing they've ever used before, and it's a gray-based paper. So I'm a little bit anxious to see how that works. So it'll, you know... Obviously, we'll know when we get it. Yeah, I expect... Obviously, they tested it out beforehand, so I'm sure it's going to be fine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Either the insides or outsides, there's been a reason... I would expect there's a reason that they have had to do a larger run. Like when you look at some of the other ones that they've done this for, right, which is utility... Most recent, utility and lunacy, and they're doing something that I'm expecting is very... And Shenandoah was 40. So I expect that, you know, they're doing something which is very specific with the paper which is put up there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, Shenandoah, as we learned, was the cover.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like they had to... Because they were... What were they doing? Binding to... Duplexing the covers. Duplexing, that's it. The other option is, it's Christmas, they know they're going to sell a bunch, and they're giving away the 10th anniversary pack, so maybe they just have more subscriptions to give away this time. Like...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, and it's a good addition for retail as well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is going to... Yeah, I expect it will sell very well. I think this one is going to sell very, very well because this is something that people want to use Pocket Notebooks for. Right? They even said, like, these are, like, two of their most, like, requested things to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, but here's the thing, and this is the thing that I talk about with Jeff. When we're designing products, you know, we're designing a weekly calendar note card, and the pack will have 52 cards in it. You don't need five packs of those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right? You need one. So we're going to sell you one pack of cards. How many multiple purchases are you going to have of this notebook?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but they don't need to worry about that, though. Like, field notes don't have to worry about that problem because they make a limited amount and sell them all. Right? Like, I know why you would be concerned because you don't know. But, like, yeah, but their track record says they will sell all of these, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I agree. I agree. But I think that it is a limiting edition for, you know, what are you going to buy? Two packs so you have one for next year? You know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm getting two packs of these where I don't even need two packs if I love this edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But what if you end up like me where, like, how I was with Byline, love that edition so much that I made sure I bought as many as I could possibly buy, right? And then I can see someone doing that with this where it's like, oh, no, they're only making this one time. I need to buy five of those so I've got one for the next five years.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'll disagree with you there.

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'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh gosh.