[ZodWallop]

Last weekend I went to B&N with my kid. She doesn't read enough for my liking, and while I have no control over that, I do like to do what I can to encourage her to read more.

She likes romance. Specifically a category called New Adult Romance. As she would puruse the books, I would look up digital copies to see the price difference vs. paper books (one side effect of my moving to ebooks is I have little to no interest in browsing bookstore shelves myself anymore).

I was surprised at how often a paperback that was popular enough to be carried at Barnes And Noble would only have a digital edition available via Amazon.

The ones that really sticks with me is a book called A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole. I can tell you that in the teen world, this is a big book. It was originally published in 2016 and remains popular enough that Target carries it even with their limited book space. So does Walmart. It's currently #6 in teen romance. And digitally, it's only available on Kindle.

I've bought a fair amount of Amazon exclusive stuff. But I'm old enough that I'm not reading what's popular and my impression of the exclusive books that I bought is that they are back catalog stuff republished by Amazon's imprints, or niche titles that I wouldn't expect to ever see paper copies of. I was wrong.