Attention all bookstores on-line or otherwise.

Attention all bookstores on-line or otherwise. At some point in the next few days my republished, self-published(in every way) award winning, genre defying version of Never Ceese will NOT be returnable. Lightning Source has to honor my decision to make it returnable for 180 days after I decide to make it non-returnable but after that you will NOT be able to take advantage of me.

Isn't it wonderful that bookstores can order any book at will when it's returnable because they know they can return it with no skin off their back. Outstanding indeed! While the author has to pay dearly for every book returned. An example you say? Sure. I sold 25 books of Never Ceese. Some slacker bookstore returned five and wiped out any profit made. In fact, I now owe money. How cool is that!

The only publishers who can survive the way things are set up with bookstores are the ones responsible for this pitiful mode of operation; the larger publishers. And even they gripe about it but it's the reason they are as big as they are. They made the deal with the bookstores, swamped the shelves with their books but the profits outweighed the losses so it was no huge deal.

Never Ceese will be available any day now in E-book format through Ingram so there will be that option. It's available on Kindle for those of you who have one of those. It's available in EVERY bookstore but you'll have to order it because I can't afford to make it easy for them to drag me down which they seem quite content to do. Gotta love that. ;)

BTW this is one area where CBA and ECPA affiliated bookstores shine. I've no returns from them but that's because they won't place my books anyway. I don't pay to be affiliated. HA! Score one for the affiliated Christian bookstores.