We often
talk about bookstore events and while those are great, libraries are often big, missed opportunities.
I'm not as pessimistic
about bookstores as either of you, but it's worrying to contemplate how the economics of it all might shake out.
It's worrying to
think about bookstores disappearing but what if that means that we had our own little libraries and bookstores at home?
Even though I have my
concerns about bookstores closing their doors I too am excited to be writing in this wide - open time of choice and revival of reading.
And finally, Penguin Books bought the trade paperback rights to my novel, and this summer, Penguin produced a beautiful trade paperback version of Beneath a Marble Sky that is available in
about every bookstore in North America.
Bookstore bloggers in nine cities will create video blogs about the books they recommend and
about bookstore events that, undoubtedly, feature some of the same books.
I don't mind writing back cover copy, or chasing
data about bookstores and consumers to send mailings to, or sending the mailings, or writing and sending press releases, or updating my website for new books, or most of the other marketing I do.
It's unclear how pure - play bookstores can remain in business in an environment where the same consumers who scream bloody
murder about bookstore closures forget their own complicity by browsing at their local bookstore before buying at Amazon.
To hear much
more about these bookstores, listen to our entire conversation with Sarah MacLachlan of House of Anansi Press and Meghan MacDonald of Penguin Random House Canada in our BookNet Canada podcast episode, Publishers enter the bookstore game.
What is most
special about this bookstore is you can get bonus content e.g. author interviews, essays, and many more according to GoodEReader.
Until Createspace and bookstores kiss and make up, until they figure out a way to work together, for authors who care
about bookstore sales Lightning Source is the better option.
A Year of Biblical Womanhood officially releases today, which means you can find it at just
about any bookstore as well as online.
I'm not sure what it is, but I have mutual
feelings about bookstores and coffee shops; «museum visits» is an act I really need to add to my list more often.
If he's
worried about both bookstores and libraries like he says, shouldn't he be giving the money to the non-profit, government - funded, community institutions that are being squeezed by budget cuts...?»
Also, something has to be said
about bookstores being used for after - hour parties in New York or late night events.