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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The third approach sounds a bit expensive as well, taking into account that the stores as well as the authors want to make money and no guarantee the books will sell.
There are no bookstores where I live, they are not even sold in the small grocery store, so I can't go look for myself. (Only one small bookstore in the entire Yukon, AFAIK)
Helen
edit: I meant to ask is this third approach happening?
Helen
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Yes.
If I remember the articles at Dean Wesley Smith's site, WMD PUBLISHING, the publishing house he and KKR set up to publish their backlist and frontlist titles does it. (Others too.) They also do their own audio ebooks and foreign rights deals. As KKR says, "there's this thing called the internet..."
It helps that they are both publishing industry veterans who've done it all before but as the saying goes (more or less) "what one person has done another can aspire to".
Now that both Ingram and Baker&Taylor distribute indie books on similar terms as the big boys (enough margin baked into the list price and willingness to accept a small percentage of returns) they have comparable reach to the smaller traditional publishers. The last hurdle is independent bookstores and libraries being open to indie titles.