For the love of publishing
I have read a lot of articles the past few days. Unless they are coming from bookish people the articles have been mostly stating that Macmillian should ease up let Amazon charge only $9.99 for books because hey, you are not paying for paper right?
Wrong, how do you assume that paper is the only cost? I am no expert by far but I see that the author gets an advance. Enough copies have to be sold to pay back the Pub for that advance, and then pay back whatever advertising campaign said Pub footed the bill for. The author tour, the book trailer, the ARC copies for reviews.
I am guilty of buying loads of books at Amazon on the cheap and that has to stop. I will no longer be using their service or their affiliate program on my blog. The same goes for Target and Wal-Mart.
These companies while allowing us to purchase our reads in bulk are ruining the fabric of the publishing industry by sometimes selling books so cheap they even experience a loss that they can make up in their other retail efforts.
So I buy less books? At least what I own then will hold quality. Quality over quantity is something we should be striving for. How many of us have so many books we have no where to put them?
I will strive to use my library more. To support and cultivate and suggest to them books that should be on their shelves. I will strive to make better decisions on what books I purchase and only purchase from stores who sell their books at a fair price for the publisher.
If I choose another affiliate program to use (its doubtful) I will go with Powells and The Book Depository.
What are your thoughts?
Amazon recommends meme week one!
I thought it might be fun to list three or ten books, however many you want really weekly that Amazon.com has recommended to you from your buying and review history. So just grab the code below post it in your Amazon Recommended to me post and come back here to the Mr. Linky to add your post this week.
My recommendations this week:
