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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Do I care about signed copies? Not when just picking up a book. I've never been drawn to collect signatures.
OTOH, I talked to a really nice author who was at an outdoor pet stall. She'd written a children's book about her dog, had it illustrated, and was selling them. Looked it over, read it, bought a copy for our grandkids. She was so tickled to sign it, I couldn't turn down the free offer.
Win/win situation in a face-to-face meeting. We both ended up happy, and the grandkids liked the book.
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This is the sort of situation that would be of interest to me, I think. Not a random signing event where all I'm doing is giving the author carpal tunnel syndrome, but a meaningful interaction. Since I don't read paper books anyway, the nearest analogy I have is of a book that was not available to me in digitall format on any of the platforms I have access to. The author kindly sent me the pre-release PDF of the print copy she'd received from the publishers.