B&N crazyness

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.

nomesque · 02-04-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden

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.

Huh - sounds odd...

I wonder if this is an attempt to streamline pbook retail for themselves, since (as far as I'm aware) they're buying ebooks from a number of new distributors?

But no, sorry, I haven't heard a peep about this.

carlobee · 02-04-2010, 09:55 PM

Sounds really odd. Haven't heard of this one yet either.

Steven Lake · 02-05-2010, 03:10 AM

Yeah, neither had I either, until recently. And even then only from one source. So I wasn't certain if it did in fact happen, and if so, how much people knew about it. I wanted to at least do a bit of feeling around before going and flying off the handle about this.

Steven Lake · 02-13-2010, 06:39 PM

Well, after hearing that one small word of mouth ping on this, I haven't heard a peep more. So I guess this is something than can be filed in the trash bin as a bad rumor. heh. Oh well. Better a bad rumor than a true one. ^_^ (at least in this case)

khalleron · 02-14-2010, 12:00 AM

I would think if this were true, there would be some buzz about it.

There are a lot of small publishers out there. Amazon can't say 'boo' without it getting posted all over, I would think the same thing would be true for B&N and a move that major.

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.

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02-04-2010, 09:55 PM	#3
carlobee Fanatic Posts: 535 Karma: 972 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: The new iPad	Sounds really odd. Haven't heard of this one yet either.

02-05-2010, 03:10 AM	#4
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	Yeah, neither had I either, until recently. And even then only from one source. So I wasn't certain if it did in fact happen, and if so, how much people knew about it. I wanted to at least do a bit of feeling around before going and flying off the handle about this.

02-13-2010, 06:39 PM	#5
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	Well, after hearing that one small word of mouth ping on this, I haven't heard a peep more. So I guess this is something than can be filed in the trash bin as a bad rumor. heh. Oh well. Better a bad rumor than a true one. ^_^ (at least in this case)

02-14-2010, 12:00 AM	#6
khalleron Kate Posts: 1,700 Karma: 3605799 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Oregon, United States Device: MeeBook, Kobo Libra Colour	I would think if this were true, there would be some buzz about it. There are a lot of small publishers out there. Amazon can't say 'boo' without it getting posted all over, I would think the same thing would be true for B&N and a move that major.

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