Posted on 08/28/2015 4:39:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
Just something a charitable foundation could be capable of... incrementally.
LOL it's the safest place in Ferguson, no looting there.
Maybe a Starbucks can move in...
From a publisher's perspective, Amazon is inconsequential, because as i said before, the ONLY thing that matters is sales in the first few weeks and the B&N order number. The print run is set entirely by the advance order by B&N. It's not impossible, if you have fantastic marketing, to sell tons of books via e-book form. But the people who do this are very talented, and work it as a full time job. I know one woman who has hundreds of thousands of sales at $.99 each, but that's all she does is "work" the books. It is very, very hard---not impossible, again---to get a "bestseller" on the lists because e-sales are completely ignored. It has to be through Bookscan, not even independent book stores count.
I'm not really discussing whether e-books are "better" or "easier" or whatever. Only talking about sales and print runs by publishers. You could have a crapload of e-sales but if your B&N pre-order isn't high, there will be no physical books to find anywhere except (as they get rare enough) at a premium on Amazon. But the author doesn't get ANY of that money. That's all I"m talking about.
I started using amazon for book buying after Barnes and Noble was caught consistently hiding conservative books a while back. I used to love to go there and cruise through their shelves whenever I could get away from the kids.
I know a lot of people that did that, not wanting corporate idiots picking the public’s reading material via their own social and political preferences. And that was in the Boston area.
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