Actually, I Like My Traditional Publisher or “You Leave My Dill Pickle Alone!”

[ursulav]

This will be long. I may ramble. Sideways. Through walls. You’ve been warned.

So in the last few weeks, I have found myself, for whatever reason, tripping repeatedly over things on the interwebs about self-publishing. I didn’t do it deliberately, at least at first, but Google+ makes it easy to fall over this stuff, and then you chase links or read

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[shatterstripes]

> you can dismiss me as a hopelessly inept dweeb who wants to make no decisions and be the literary equivalent of a kept woman

[skellington1]

Yes, waterproof!

One thing stopping me from adoring the e-reader idea is that if I'm going to read a trashy mystery, I am going to read it in the bath, damn it.

[sofish_sasha]

Also, some people just can't afford ebook readers.

[fenris_lorsrai]

Borders is a TERRIBLE "sample case" of what's going on. Borders had it's fingers in four different pies: books, DVDs, CDs, and coffee. All four went into major turmoil at once. DVDs had a format war. CDs had all kinds of shocks due to the transition going on with digital media. Wholesale coffee price DOUBLED over the last two years (yes, in spite of global economic woes). Then books started to have the same distribution hiccups that CDs had

[gwalla]

Also, I should point out that Borders was staffed bottom-to-top with people who just did not give a damn. Eventually that has some effect on business.

[fenris_lorsrai]

Yeah, pretty well.

[ursulav]

Ha! Man, I bet that felt good when they wrote it...

[fenris_lorsrai]

Seriously. I DO NOT KNOW BOOKS BY COLOR! The only ones you have a chance of me guessing them by color are purple ones. Ones that are primarily purple are few and far between.

and yes, I hate summer reading too since many of the schools won't give the list until AFTER they have given it to the kids. My town is good and gives it to me two months in advance. it's the bordering towns that NEVER give me the list and I don't see it until it walks in the door. Sorry, everybody got the list the same day, including me. I don't have 10 copies of this. the first one in the door got the ONE used copy I had for $1. I can order you a new one for $8. and you'll have to wait. because your school doesn't think telling the bookstore what to stock would be helpful.

[hossblacksilver]

I buy DTE books for the off chance that someday we'll get hit by a massive solar emission, really pretty northern lights and everything that isn't EMP shielded goes bye-bye.