Well yeah, the corporations always want to hurt small businesses for their own gains, but "NO SHOPPING" on this date isn't about greed. It's about a damaging lack of specificity. Most independent small businesses are part of the fight.
Why do people want to hurt small independent businesses like this? They're the only ones who will feel it. There's always the "Well we mean the big corporations," followup, but that's not what it ever says.
He barely did anything. Look at his voting record. He said things but was lock step in line with the rest almost every time.
I think you just need to scroll up.
We let corporations take over the world and have too much influence. We lost our attention spans. We lost our curiosity and critical thinking skills. But mostly it was the corporations.
I love my em dashes. Confession: before I started using them, I regularly used ellipses incorrectly for the same purpose. I haven't been accused of using AI because of it, but, if I am, so be it! I won't stop. Also, I'll join your fight for the Oxford comma!
Yes we do. We use libro.fm to sell digital audiobooks and bookshop.org is kind of automatic on our website. It lists options for ways to consume the book. Physical, audiobook, and bookshop.org. Bookshop is passive. We don't do anything but have an account. It's been good and is a legit option.
Your hypothetical is fucking intolerable. Have you heard of this happening???
Heck no. Book margins suck. On a $20 book we probably get $8. Sometimes discounts are a bit higher, but if we pay 12 and printing is 6, then there is certainly more money that should be going your way and is disappearing somewhere.
Sure. I'm game.
I can't think of a store that would order 1000. But normally indie authors find a way to make the discount regular and the books returnable. But where does the money go? $1.98???? I get the $6.40 for printing, but what about the rest????
I know stores that would here in Chicago. We have a whole section of indie pubs.
This is one problem. A quick search led to 5 Amazon links. This is the only book of yours on Ingram. It looks like it's print on demand, non returnable with a very low discount. Margins on books are very low anyway, but we'd break even on this one. Why carry it? It's a big risk and money is tight!
Anyway, I give a lot of indie authors a chance. If you have a personal connection to this topic I'd like to know what your book is/books are. Maybe I can help. I got into an argument with someone on FB about this and I figured out quite quickly why no one was carrying her book.
Using a family owned printer in Minnesota. She hired a great illustrator and didn't just feed generative AI. She marketed her book and told people we had it. You'd be shocked by the number of authors who stock their books at our stores and then only link Amazon on their websites and marketing.
That said, I do carry books by indie authors. I'm not sure why you haven't had luck. We just hosted an event with an author who published a kids' book. The main difference is that she is doing so much right. The book is well edited. It's cute and well written and illustrated. She printed it herself
3. So many are pushy, demanding, rude, and unrealistic. 4. So many of them make mistakes that push the prices of their books up to levels that won't move in the stores. I'm sorry Amazon charges them so much for copies of their own books, but my customers won't pay $30 for a skinny paperback kid book
I see this a lot. A few things always come up. 1. A lot of indie writers pub with Amazon, the corporation trying to kill them off. 2. A lot of indie writers publish awful, unedited work with awful covers on niche topics that will never sell.. Will continue in comment...
People are figuring out that amazon and Barnes and Noble are absolute shit companies. Independent bookstores have been literally dying trying to tell you this for years. It's time to shift and support the Indies. Good work if you already do.
Trump's illegitimate son. Look at that face.
This is insanity.
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"I said I didn't do it, and I believe me."
trump's son in law does not represent any part of the United States. How t's supporters are ok with this crap is beyond me. They really are past help
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Left middle finger. Gopher hole. I knew it was a gopher hole, but I still wondered what was in there. FAFO since '76.
"Can I have it in a sentence?"
"Yes. 'Despite the constant negative press covfefe.'
"E-P-S-T-E-I-N."
*DING*
Inaugural Netflix large oenis award presented to Donald j Trump. A fancy gold award for a classless old scumbag.
Nice! They came through with it after all!
So close to the goal!