I'm Just Sayin...

[lagilman]

That Curse the Dark is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

*meep!*

Not that I'm suggesting that you should buy from Amazon.com, just because they were first on the starting block. Especially not if you have a nice independent bookstore you frequent (go, Indies!). I'm just sayin', is all...

Comments

[vincam.livejournal.com]

Forget independents here in the sticks. We don't have a bookstore of any stripe. Even the lame Waldenbooks has closed down. There are a few chains in the next town over (and an excellent used bookstore there), but to get to a place worth anything (Barnes & Noble)is a half-hour drive across the river.

[lagilman]

Never said there wasn't a sadly valid reason for Amazon to exist. But they're not the end-all and be-all of bookstores. Not if you have options.

Is that heresy? Maybe. But we got such a great ersponse from independents during the Magic & Mayhem tour, I don't want them forgotten...

[windrose.livejournal.com]

I wish to god that there was such a thing as an indy bookshop where I live. Alas, the decent bookstores are a good half an hour to forty-five minutes away in Sarasota, or across the river in St Pete. All we have is a pathetic Books-a-Million. Books-a-Dozen would be more accurate. :-P

[vincam.livejournal.com]

Is that heresy?

Heresy? Hardly. I'm the last person to defend amazon, particularly with their idiotic system of customer reviews. I was just sayin'. Bookstores around here are deeply, deeply pathetic. And the woman who runs the Waldenbooks at Rivergate Mall should be smacked sideways. (I stopped going in there because she insults my work--nay, the entire genre--at every opportunity. Disappointed writer wannabe, I think.) It's the sad state of bookstores out here in the sticks that makes amazon as powerful as it is, and that's a bad thing.

[(Anonymous)]

There is an independant bookstore, more-or-less, near me - Shakespeare and Co., which I think is part of a small chain. A bit farther south there is a Barnes and Noble superstore. Shakespeare and Co. has an eclectic stock, but the SF section is rather minimal, so I don't see _Curse the Dark_ appearing there. (Shakespeare and Co. tends toward literary stuff and left-wing politics, as well as texts for the Baruch College campus nearby.)

But chances are likely I'll grab it from Larry Smith at the next convenient con after it's released. I believe in supporting my local bookseller. He just happens to be based in Ohio...

As for Amazon.com, the UK arm is handy for things like UK editions of Terry Prathcett and Tom Holt hardcovers, but I don't normally use them for US releases. (Since no one locally seems to be stocking Alan Garner, that's about to change.)
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Dennis

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

I often pre-order from Amazon when I hear of an intriguing new forthcoming title, just so I don't forget about it. Even if I sometimes end up purchasing it in person from dealers at cons, or from the bricks&mortar B&N down at the end of my block.

Can anyone (authors? former editors? publishers' minions?) tell me what the effect of pre-ordering at Amazon is, if you merely let it rest quietly in your shopping cart but don't actually run it through the checkout sequence? Do you suppose they track that sort of thing at all? Because, quite apart from the chance that I'll spot the book at a live shop or dealer, I'm reluctant to "buy" too many books six months in advance of release in case I forget that I've done it, and suddenly find my credit card taking a six-hardcover hit when I wasn't expecting it :-)

On the other hand, there are so many authors whose books I'd really like to flag for the big chain bookbuyers: Yes! Readers Want More Like This! Stock Up Early!

HLC

*blush*

[lagilman]

Gah. Just checked the link to make sure it was working. Gah.

*blushing madly, sending disgustingly sappy thank-you thoughts to everyone who's pre-ordering.*

More! More!

[sleeeeeep.livejournal.com]

So..

Where are all the rest of the pre-orders?

Cmon Cmon Crank em out so we can do some Fantastic Reading!

Hurry! Hurry!
Was that out loud? Oops.

A good book gets me excited.
A great book gets me realy excited.

Yours so far are Great!

Why?!?

[neuroman42.livejournal.com]

When do we get to read about Wren again?

Why do you mock us with your amazing prose?

Indie bookstores rock the hizzouse!!!

Re: Why?!?

[lagilman]

Why do you mock us with your amazing prose?

a) because that's how I make my living
b) because it amused me
c) because if I don't, who knows what sort of trouble y'all would be getting up to...


Pick one, two or three of the above...

Re: Why?!?

[neuroman42.livejournal.com]

Trouble!?!? ME?

My anquish is your amusment?

Sniffle... sniffle... Your books still rock. ;)