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Steven Lake · 02-03-2010, 01:02 PM

Hey, did you guys hear what B&N supposedly did lately? I just heard from my publisher today that they're apparently now forcing all publishing houses to get approved first by Ingram for each and every one of their books, and then selling it at wholesale to Ingram who sells it then to B&N at the price that the publishing houses formerly got.

The only exception is if you're a big publishing house, and you have 50,000+ titles in print. So any of the medium to small guys get hosed, while the big guys score big again. (not surprising there, but still frustrating)

Anyone hear about this? Just trying to figure out how big a deal this is.

02-03-2010, 01:02 PM	#1
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	B&N crazyness Hey, did you guys hear what B&N supposedly did lately? I just heard from my publisher today that they're apparently now forcing all publishing houses to get approved first by Ingram for each and every one of their books, and then selling it at wholesale to Ingram who sells it then to B&N at the price that the publishing houses formerly got. The only exception is if you're a big publishing house, and you have 50,000+ titles in print. So any of the medium to small guys get hosed, while the big guys score big again. (not surprising there, but still frustrating) Anyone hear about this? Just trying to figure out how big a deal this is.