BOOKSCAN--the literal literary Nielsens

[bobgee1999]

Notinasnaid: Maybe it's working. After finding your videos on YouTube, I certainly intend on going back through your catalog and picking up several of your books I missed, which sound interesting.

[normanspinrad]

Last time I had info, book sales on Amazon were something like 10% of the American market, and no other on-line book seller even comes close to that.

[normanspinrad]

It's even worse than that, what with "order to net," where the chains that dominate retailing, therefore print runs, therefore what gets published and how, generallly order what they've sold of your last novel minus something like 10%. Meaning if you don't do something to break out of the box, your sales diminish to the point where they don't order at all and you don't get published anymore.

[kryndis]

I'd be curious to know if the newer untraditional sellers like Amazon have had any effect on this equation. Or are they simply following the exact same model as the brick and mortar stores?

[kryndis]

Wow, I never knew the publishing industry was held captive by such a stagnant numbers game.