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One of the more prolific female sci-fi writers is Holly Lisle. She graciously offers a free eBook, Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love and Money. Everyone who cares about writers, books, book stores,and the publishing industry should read her "ABOUT BUYING BOOKS - MINE OR ANY OTHER AUTHOR'S" beginning on page seven. It's too long to reproduce here, but the gist (NOT jist as too many cybercorrespondents write) of it is that computerized ordering systems are wiping out midlist authors. By "ordering to the net" chain stores automatically reduce the size of succeeding orders for books until none are ordered, even though the "sell through" (percentage of books sold) would remain constant if larger quantities of books were ordered. Lisle urges readers to bombard independent stores with requests to keep authors' books in stock, feeling it's useless to battle big chains' monolithic machines. It seems to me that the battles should take place where the action is (or vice versa), and readers could deluge the big box businesses with complaints and demands. [book sales]
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:17 PM
2 Comments:
It almost seems like a doomed battle, doesn't it?
I mean, those monoliths of bookstores hold the market hostage - don't they?
It's too bad and even a little sad...
Can you spell P-R-O-T-E-S-T?
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