Channel News - 17th of June

I have some news and updates regarding my channel, and specifically my uploading schedule, that I want to cover in this post.

In these first five months of 2018 I have had a lot of university work to do, and so naturally the channel's uploading rate has suffered. I initially wanted to upload three videos a week but very quickly realised that it would take too much of my free-time to do so. Instead I decided abandon the Sunday & Wednesday uploading schedule and try to upload whenever I had time (which was not that often).

But I'm done with university now and of course... work follows. On Monday (17th of June) I start a full-time job and will work all summer long. This means that I will most likely only record and edit videos during the weekends.

So this is what I will try to do:

- Upload one review video per week (usually on Sundays).
- Plan/schedule more educational videos (I have two videos in mind that I have wanted to film for the longest of time).
- In case of lack of time during busy times, try to release a 'book talk' video or similar.

I'm really sorry that I can't promise more videos and I know that I have so many books to share (with this rate it will take possibly years before I even catch up to all of the books I own, and since I get new ones every-so-often, I doubt I ever will, hah!).

But now for some fun news!

The Folio Society Summer-Sale is just around the corner, and I will most likely pick up a few titles then, so a haul will follow!
And after the haul I will record my fourth(!) bookshelf tour. I know this one will be exciting because so much has happened with my collection.

I'm sure some of you know that I have been selling a lot of books, and I have pretty much stayed within a specific book budget for all of my purchases during the last six to eight months (selling books and buying new ones for that money), and so my budget has limited any expansion in my library. I have traded books I didn't want with books I did want and so the collection has stayed at a steady +-0 (almost). But there's still many new books to show!

I want to thank every single one of you for all of the support and love throughout these years. I always have big plans in mind and I have a pretty decent idea of how this channel will look like in the upcoming years (but more of that in an upcoming post), and I hope all of you will be aboard when (if) changes start to happen... but no drastic changes - just switching the headlights on something else. ;-)

Have a great day!

I joined the TASCHEN affiliate program!

How I make money through my videos:

I have for the past year tried to find solutions on how I can make my YouTube channel more profitable. Recording and editing my videos take hours each week, and if I wanted to be able to afford to take that time of my free time, I had to find good ways to bring in some extra profit.
Placing ads on my videos was my first solution, and I have now had ads on my videos for over a year.

But relative low numbers of viewers results in low ad revenue (who would have thought!), and therefor I created a Patreon page.
I did not expect people to support me on Patreon, but to my delight, the warm hearts of a few book lovers wanted support my channel, and I have at this moment three Patrons raising $27 per month! Quite the blessing in my eyes since that prove me that people care about the content I make, and it drives me to do my absolute finest job in presenting both the books I show, but also sharing my knowledge of books (which is steadily growing). 

A few days ago the Online Sales Director of TASCHEN contacted me. She had watched my video (Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), and wondered if I wanted to be part of their new affiliate program. I, of course, answered yes!

How the TASCHEN affiliate program works:

It is very simple. You can probably see the TASCHEN banner on the top right on this page (as long as you don't use any adblocker). If you click on that banner, you will get transfered to the TASCHEN website. So if you ever want to buy books from TASCHEN (which I warm heartedly can recommend) and also want to support my channel, simply just click on any of my TASCHEN links and make a purchase afterwards, and in that way I get a small % of the deal, while you don't pay any extra!

I will have links on my blog (through that lovely looking banner) and in my description on YouTube!

Affiliate programs is a great way for both viewers and creators, and I will most likely have deals and discounts in the future!

Thank you all for showing your support in all various ways. Every single like, share and comment is amazing. A big thanks to my Patrons too.

Here is the link to TASCHEN: https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=vIxud*czJT0&offerid=525115.8&subid=0&type=4

What is this?

Hello fellow book lovers and book collectors!

I have decided to start a little blog! A little blog about what you might ask? Well, books of course! But here is the thing: on my YouTube channel (Pontus Presents) I solely focus on the very physical aspect of books; the design, the binding, the quality of the paper (maybe I should introduce a smell part to my videos too? I know people do enjoy smelling their books, hmm...)*, but you are probably aware of this already. What do I want with this little blog then? The plan is simple:

This is a blog about all things book collecting and all things beautiful books. Yes. ALL things beautiful books.

Attractive photos of books. Book collecting tips & tricks. In-Depth Reviews. Beautiful books speculations. Me ranting about the Folio Society.

I want this to be a platform dedicated to the utter most elegance of books that are produced with that little extra... that little extra I like to call a book soul. You know when you are holding a book that has a soul compared to a book who lacks one. You can feel it in the binding. You can smell it. You can feel the soul linger on your fingertips when you turn the pages. You know what I mean.

I truly hope you will find your place here and enjoy what I have to share!

That is all for this first post.

I wish you all the best.

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Sincerely,

Pontus.


* I will use parentheses whenever I want express stuff that just suddenly pops into my head. Might get a tad bit weird but we will see how it goes.