They could easily either just
give small bookstores the same discounts or even just Stop Selling To Amazon.
Not exact matches
With a
small book run professionally printed she started approaching
bookstores including Barnes & Noble, which let her
give talks and sell her books in its stores.
If every
bookstore and library had a section like this that someone cared about maintaining, it would
give tens of thousands of aspiring authors at least a
small chance of being discovered.
Among the many reasons Stallman
gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent
bookstores,
small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.
Most independent or
small bookstores will let you put a few books in their shop on consignment, meaning you
give them the books and they will pay you if they sell, then order some more.
If your Amazon Associates link
gives you, as it does me, a
small percentage of a sale that costs the reader nothing, are you in it because you're ready to see the last
bookstores close?
As a former bookseller himself, he celebrated the launch of This Side of the River by
giving 6
bookstores $ 250 grants for whatever improvements they needed... a helping hand on a little
smaller scale than James Patterson, but doing his part!
Brigham Distributing is focused and dedicated to
giving small and self - publishing companies the opportunity to distribute their quality books to retail
bookstores and the general public.
A
small publisher can't
give the perks to the
bookstores to get front listing or giant discounts.
Small bookstores are beneficial because if your book doesn't sell, they'll usually
give you the extra copies back.
Since getting my device, I've stopped buying print fiction for the reasons I
gave you above... tired of paying inflated prices in Irish
bookstores, could buy great stories that are only on digital, access to thousand of
small presses... and not having to rely on what the Big Five (formerly the Big Six) tell us to read, which are those big branded named authors like Lee Childs, Nora Roberts, Michael Connolly, Cecilia Ahern etc..