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I love how they are now saying that Amazon drove out the Independent bookstores and not Barnes and Nobles and Borders. Then toss in how the email writer poopoos finding new authors and bemoans the cost of celebrity authors and books and you have an industry that has no clue what the hell it is doing.
How about copy what Amazon is doing? Offer a better royalty without the author being restricted to one bookstore. It sure sounds like the advance payments are dropping any way. Offer a smaller advance and 50% royalty. Heck, aim for a 40% royalty, you one up Amazon and make the deal better for the author.
How about not pissing people off by pulling library e-books? How about getting more of the backlog digitized so that people can read entire series on their e-readers? How about pulling your head out of the freaking sand and facing the new, scary world head on. Stop whining and start competing.
Your old way of doing things is not working. Stop complaining and try something else.
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