So all y'all click your heels together and chant three times. "There's no book like Sue's. There's no book like Sue's. There's no book like Sue's."
So several, (meaning about five or six) gals, from a local book club purchased Never Ceese tonight to see if they want to make it their book choice for the month. I have to say I was pretty excited about the chances until I heard these words, "we've got quite a few best-selling books on our list as well." All I can say to that is I hope it's understand that no matter how many of my books sell, so long as I'm not with a large publisher, my books will NEVER be on a best-seller's list.
Why?
Because all bestseller's list that mean anything are determined by how many books sell to a bookstore. Large chain bookstores only buy books from large publishers in mass which is why their books are always on best-sellers list. Small press can only survive by making their books non-returnable which means NO large chain bookstore will order even one or certainly not enough to compete with the number of books larger publishers flood to large bookstores.
So maybe this Book Club understands this and will judge a book on quality and not quantity. Hope so. As far as that goes I hope EVERY Book Club understands this otherwise it's just another outlet for large publishers to get sales and small publishers to sit back and wonder when this madness will all end. Hopefully the news I post next will be good. I did sell books though so I suppose that was good. ;D
I was really excited because a friend of mine asked for my book to show to them. But after she mentioned the "best-sellers" they had to choose from as well, I'm afraid I'll just have to stick with being excited about selling a few books. Very few take into consideration that best-sellers list are only comprised of books put out by large houses and aren't on the list because they're actually selling well. UGH!
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