“We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us”

[speakingtohe]

I don't like coffee shops and reading areas in bookstores selling new books. If they had copies designated for reading before buying that is one thing. I have seen more than one person select a book from the back of the stack, go to a table and read, return the book to the stack and pick up an unread one to buy even if they were the only person to read the one they had.

A $10 paperback, I don't care, but a larger edition or hardcover at $20+ I do care, especially if it is for a gift.

Helen

[JAcheson]

Originally Posted by sbroome

I assume you've considered that they don't have the money for that, the same way music labels don't have money for artist development anymore which is why music is so awful?

Boo hoo. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.

And if you stop spending money on providing professional editing, or promotion, or all the other services, you stop turning your fledgling authors into established authors, some of whom will then become your next a-list authors.

Instead, the big publishers have spent the last 20 years pushing their current A-listers as much as possible to maximize their immediate profits, and completely neglecting the mid-list. Small wonder the little guys are ready to jump ship.

[Herbie Jackson]

It would be a sensible venture for e-book publishers to offer great print deals to those establishing themselves in the digital world and kick the arse of many of these greedy and picky publishers with high cost and very low royalties.
Just a thought you understand

[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by JAcheson

Instead, the big publishers have spent the last 20 years pushing their current A-listers as much as possible to maximize their immediate profits, and completely neglecting the mid-list. Small wonder the little guys are ready to jump ship.

I haven't seen any of the authors I value jumping ship to go indie. If this list of the best indie non-fiction is representative, it just isn't likely to interest me.

Medical history is one of my favorite topics to read about. Here's the latest great mid-lister I've come across and whose work I hope to see more of in future years and decades:

Molly Caldwell Crosby

[HansTWN]

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I haven't seen any of the authors I value jumping ship to go indie. If this list of the best indie non-fiction is representative, it just isn't likely to interest me.

Medical history is one of my favorite topics to read about. Here's the latest great mid-lister I've come across and whose work I hope to see more of in future years and decades:

Molly Caldwell Crosby

Thanks for the link, looks interesting. But her website must have been created in a drunken stupor, that green background makes the text extraordinarily hard to read. You have to turn up backlighting all the way and then get really close to the screen.