Tor.com posts reference/contain links to the Tor.com store, which has a resulting huge database of authors/novels. Obviously this is in part because the store is one source of revenue for the webpage. (Tor.com also runs banner ads and is starting to sell e-books, so I'm assuming that they are not planning on using the store alone to support the site.)
Goodreads directs readers to multiple online booksites with a price comparison list. A very quick look for a random book (To Kill a Mockingbird) showed listings for ALibris, Amazon, Half.com, Abebooks, Barnes and Noble, Better World, and Powells. Other bookstores listed include Indiebound, Worldcat, and Indigo.
SFWA currently sends readers to multiple sites - author's webpages, Fictionwise, Apex Books and so on. And several writers direct readers to Powells.com and to Barnes and Noble. When/if Barnes and Noble gets its listing up at the same time that Amazon.com does, I list both on my own blog. My personal experience as a writer has been that Amazon's listings go up 24 to 72 hours before Barnes and Noble's do, and when an editor is urging you to post right now I post the existing link.
Thank you for taking this in the spirit in which it was intended. I do know that Amazon has become a necessary evil to many authors, and I have a vested interest in seeing authors thrive.
I hadn't known about that GoodReads feature, because shortly after I had joined GoodReads, I got hit with four times my normal spam content, and I had blamed them and avoided them thereafter.
Goodreads directs readers to multiple online booksites with a price comparison list. A very quick look for a random book (To Kill a Mockingbird) showed listings for ALibris, Amazon, Half.com, Abebooks, Barnes and Noble, Better World, and Powells. Other bookstores listed include Indiebound, Worldcat, and Indigo.
SFWA currently sends readers to multiple sites - author's webpages, Fictionwise, Apex Books and so on. And several writers direct readers to Powells.com and to Barnes and Noble. When/if Barnes and Noble gets its listing up at the same time that Amazon.com does, I list both on my own blog. My personal experience as a writer has been that Amazon's listings go up 24 to 72 hours before Barnes and Noble's do, and when an editor is urging you to post right now I post the existing link.
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I hadn't known about that GoodReads feature, because shortly after I had joined GoodReads, I got hit with four times my normal spam content, and I had blamed them and avoided them thereafter.
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