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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Distribution to the extent that customers can order the book through a B&M bookstore? Easy. To the extent that it's regularly stocked on shelves? That's the hard part and where the BPHs and their sales staffs do offer an advantage.
The BPHs are still the only game in town for getting 10+ physical copies in every B&N in the nation on launch day.
That's the one thing they can do better than anyone else.
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Yes, but it helps that the bookstore chains are very cozy with the publishers.
B&N
wants to launch and promote BWM titles, and couldn't care less about indies.
Hardly surprising that BWM publishers have the advantage in that area.
