I’m keeping the e-version of GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND off B&N because, honestly, I cannot give up the KU sales without better assurances that it’d be worth it. Amazon dominates the e-book market. This is a thing that is known.
I’m also in the process of seeing if I can get a good dust jacket out of this. I… do not know. Getting the paperback book prepped for B&N as it was was a right royal pain. But I’m also getting a smaller royalty from B&N than I will for Amazon*, so it might make a difference to have a hardcover with a dust jacket. We shall see!
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
*Why do it, then? Because some buyers don’t like Amazon. Like, a lot.
Does this mean they make make an appearance in their brick and mortar stores? I know, Bezos is strangling all that, but it would be cool to see it on shelves.
Almost certainly not, but people can use B&N cards to buy GOAAW, at least. That might get a sale or two.
Last time I stopped by B&N they had more shelf space for that race-baiting Jemsin chick than for Tolkien, Sanderson, and PRerry combined.
When Correia kicked off his “Son of the Black Sword” series, the (different) B&N I lived near at the time didn’t even bother to unbox the shipment until I complained about not getting my preorder over a week after release. One single copy eventually made its way to the shelves, and not in the “New Release” section, but directly to spine out position in the stacks.
So…
Yeah.
When I worked there, most of the discretionary books on display were the work of the various employees and not from corporate. If you live in a more red state, you’ll probably find more what you are looking for facing out.
I was a magazine supervisor for a while and would have to clean out the magazines if they didn’t sell. At that time, the Limbaugh Letter was just starting to be available in bookstores instead of only subscription. I put them face out in the politics section and always sold out, so I ordered more of them in. But some helpful soul always seemed to move him to the back row where no one could find him. If he was in front, I sold out. It was an epic battle for me to move it back each morning to the front until whoever was trying to hide it gave up. Took about 6 weeks…..
Just be careful about the B&N terms. I used to work for them a long time ago and they were attempting to keep authors proprietary to B&N so they wouldn’t be able to go anywhere else. That was when they first were coming out with their E-Reader in order to compete with the Kindle. But a lot of the physical books in the stores ran into that issue. I stopped working for them before I found out if the issue ever got resolved or they just gave up on the idea. It was a while ago, so it could have just been fixed by now.
I’m keeping an eye on it, but it’s only the one book to start and I have no attachment to keeping the book on their service.