How to handle extortionate twits
Aug. 10th, 2007 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumTeresa Nielsen Hayden has been in the publishing end of the book business for I don't know how long.
In the course of that she's seen a lot of the bickering which goes on between bookstores and publishers. My family has owned a used bookstore for almost 25 years. In that span of time I've seen (at a remove, being a used bookstore) some of that. I do know that customers want variety.
Which is why her post on an Aussie chain cutting off its nose, to spite its face is a treat to read.
As someone who has been selling books for going on 27 years (we sold books before we had a store), and someone who buys books, this sort of arrogance; we are a big chain, and can dictate to you, our supplier, what you will charge us for what we wish to buy, is horrible.
Follow the links, read the comments, and raise a glass to Michael Rakusin, who knew just what to do about this sort of thing... drag it into the light, and show it to the world for what it is.
In the course of that she's seen a lot of the bickering which goes on between bookstores and publishers. My family has owned a used bookstore for almost 25 years. In that span of time I've seen (at a remove, being a used bookstore) some of that. I do know that customers want variety.
Which is why her post on an Aussie chain cutting off its nose, to spite its face is a treat to read.
As someone who has been selling books for going on 27 years (we sold books before we had a store), and someone who buys books, this sort of arrogance; we are a big chain, and can dictate to you, our supplier, what you will charge us for what we wish to buy, is horrible.
Follow the links, read the comments, and raise a glass to Michael Rakusin, who knew just what to do about this sort of thing... drag it into the light, and show it to the world for what it is.
