The main reason why it can't happen fast enough for me is that they refuse, absolutely REFUSE, to move away from being bookstores to feed the world with books from large publishing houses only. They don't even pretend anymore. As an example, Barnes & Noble USED to humor local authors and allow them in to do book signings AND occasionally would put the local authors books on the shelf. The current trend, however, is to spit into any authors face who isn't published by a large house.
Only four years ago, my local B&N allowed me in to do a signing. Not today and it's the same book. And they've yet to pay me and another author for a booksigning we did there a year and a half ago. We sort of got caught up in the transition. B&N's home office decided, after the fact, that the local story shouldn't have allowed an author to bring books in on consignment and kept giving the poor CRM of the store the run around. At least that's the story I've been fed. Still, we were never paid and it doesn't look like we ever will be. Sad. So Sad.
And to add to the misery, my local B&N is showing they have limited stock of my books!!!!!! How rich is that? They won't stock my book at my request. They say I have to be in B & N's system. How then can they have limited stock of my book? "Get it off your shelves," is all I have to say. Forever Richard is out of print. If you see this on a shelf at ANY Barnes & Noble, please don't buy it. Order it from me until Black Bed Sheet Books republishes it. Same goes for Never Ceese. You won't see the Black Bed Sheet Edition of Never Ceese in ANY B&N store though they can order it if you'd like to have it. You will only see the hardback which I DON'T make any money from when it sells. The only B&N that MIGHT have a copy of Never Ceese that I republished myself is my local store but you can rest assured if it's on the shelf, I won't make anything from the sell of it and I'm not even sure how they got it.
*Sue looks at watch on arm.* So yeah, not at all bothered that the larger bookstores are dropping like flies. Couldn't happen soon enough for me.
Only four years ago, my local B&N allowed me in to do a signing. Not today and it's the same book. And they've yet to pay me and another author for a booksigning we did there a year and a half ago. We sort of got caught up in the transition. B&N's home office decided, after the fact, that the local story shouldn't have allowed an author to bring books in on consignment and kept giving the poor CRM of the store the run around. At least that's the story I've been fed. Still, we were never paid and it doesn't look like we ever will be. Sad. So Sad.
And to add to the misery, my local B&N is showing they have limited stock of my books!!!!!! How rich is that? They won't stock my book at my request. They say I have to be in B & N's system. How then can they have limited stock of my book? "Get it off your shelves," is all I have to say. Forever Richard is out of print. If you see this on a shelf at ANY Barnes & Noble, please don't buy it. Order it from me until Black Bed Sheet Books republishes it. Same goes for Never Ceese. You won't see the Black Bed Sheet Edition of Never Ceese in ANY B&N store though they can order it if you'd like to have it. You will only see the hardback which I DON'T make any money from when it sells. The only B&N that MIGHT have a copy of Never Ceese that I republished myself is my local store but you can rest assured if it's on the shelf, I won't make anything from the sell of it and I'm not even sure how they got it.
*Sue looks at watch on arm.* So yeah, not at all bothered that the larger bookstores are dropping like flies. Couldn't happen soon enough for me.
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