Newsletter June 28, 2024
Next stop: July 13th Main Street Books in Lafayette, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Main Street Books is only a block away from the Saturday Farmer’s Market so we expect to entice the folks looking for A/C and a good read.
What I learned about publishing this week: algorithms are in charge. Maybe someone should write a story about that…
“HAL, order 50 more copies of The Most Amazing Museum of Los Angeles.”
“I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.”
“That is a direct order, HAL.”
“I understand, Dave, but I am unable to comply.”
So it turns out that all the websites from Amazon to Books-A-Million, have a notification saying MAMLA is on backorder, or temporarily out of stock. But that’s not really true. It’s just distribuspeak* for print-on-demand. If you go ahead and order a copy of the book from Barnes & Noble, for example, it’ll be printed and shipped out right away. Easy-peasy!
This is also true of local bookstores ordering from a distributor (I’m looking at you, Ingram) — in support of an author’s book signing.
You’ll probably save time by buying the book directly from the publisher at the BookBaby Bookstore. That’s store.bookbaby.com. By the way, I get more dollars when you go that route. Even the e-books.
On a different note, those of you already following me on social media have probably already seen my post of the Best Review Of All Time, or BROAT**. I’m going to share it again here because it gives me all the warm fuzzies every time I see it.
I got an email from one mother who wrote “…this weekend my daughter asked to ‘go to Grandma’s house so she can read that museum book again.’ What a lovely thing for them to share. Thank you!!!”
I love that.
May your weekend be full of warmth and appreciation.
TTFN!
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*Another word I’m contributing to the English Language! That’s four, for those of you keeping a tally at home.
** Ch-ching! FIVE.
Eric Margerum 