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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Now why such the big concern?
Books like businesses open and close all the time. Indie sales may be down for the reasons given in this thread. Unlike 2011, people are not as apt to buy from new, unknown authors. They expect quality in their books.
As a reader, I should not be able to tell the publisher from reading the book. So it is to the indie detriment that readers do now look.
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This thread was about why "Samhain" is closing not why indie books are down or not selling. The romance market has changed that is why Samhain is closing. Samhain lost the motivation to promote and compete with the market as they did in times past.
They have some good writers Rose Lerner, Lynn Connolly are really good. They have several mainstream backlists titles but they lost motivation in promoting. I see that now. They use to have sales, coupons, special promotions but they seldom even have sales anymore and when they do it's only on their site and not other retailers.
They allow themselves to be buried. They may have found more funding but they did nothing to change their market strategy. So here they are closing very soon.
This is the bottom line. It's not Amazon fault or readers. It's the slush pile flooded out good books and the economy making readers more smart in their buying.
Open Road did something unheard of they did a huge freebie promotion in December. They also started their own bookbub email service. Daily deals. They are trying survive.
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