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charmian · 01-24-2014, 12:00 PM

I wonder if this growing schism might be impacted by the decline of shelf space in bookstores (http://www.idealog.com/blog/future-b...re-publishing/), and whether authors are more inclined to protest in the genres where a majority of the sales are online? The 75-25 niches that Shatzkin mentions. However, it's hard to measure the shelf-space, whether it is changing, and how fast this may be happening.

I suppose we'll find this out if we see B&N attempting to strong-arm publishers.

01-24-2014, 12:00 PM	#11
charmian Addict Posts: 386 Karma: 1814548 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kindle 3, Kindle PW2	I wonder if this growing schism might be impacted by the decline of shelf space in bookstores (http://www.idealog.com/blog/future-b...re-publishing/), and whether authors are more inclined to protest in the genres where a majority of the sales are online? The 75-25 niches that Shatzkin mentions. However, it's hard to measure the shelf-space, whether it is changing, and how fast this may be happening. I suppose we'll find this out if we see B&N attempting to strong-arm publishers.