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Originally Posted by Fbone
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No apologies needed.
(And to be clear, it is B&N that has been lying.)
Amazon does do exclusives, just as everybody else except maybe Google, but the titles they publish aren't. Not by policy or in actuality.
By now some indie bookstores quietly stock their books and all will special order them if you insist. (Though why anybody would insist instead of ordering from Amazon...)
The ironic thing about Apub is that by all author accounts they are closer to the mythical old-school publishing houses of myth and movies than any of the NYC publishers have been since the 80's, when the multinationals took over. They treat authors more as partners than as serfs and they actually listen to their concerns. And act on them. They're still tradpub but they aren't anywhere near as predatory as the Manhattan Mafia.