Pamela Dean's books available again

[james_davis_nicoll]

Blaisdell Press

Blaisdell Press is me, David Dyer-Bennet, working with my wife Pamela to make her books available even when traditional publishers are uncooperative.

Comments

[editrx.livejournal.com]

I see he decided to use Create Space, which means indie bookstores like mine won't/can't carry them--there is no discount for sales.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

What is the publishing service that works best for small bookstores?

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Anything that lets us do a 60/40 minimum. We usually work with CreateSpace authors who have bought their own titles and resell them, but CreateSpace itself has a lousy discount and nothing for bookstores. I most often work with people who are doing their own independent printing, which, frankly, is cheaper and more controllable for the author in the long run. If you want to get distribution through the names like Amazon you're going to get screwed as hard doing it yourself than if you do it through someone else, anyway.

[editrx.livejournal.com]

I ahould point out that's 60% to the author.

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, that anon comment was from me, xfdryad, at work. Slinging books.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, CreateSpace sucks for bookstores unless the authors are willing to buy leftover stock from the store. That's the only way we'll do it, tbh.

But Ingram now has Ingram Publisher Services, which arereturnable - hopefully more authors will try and go that route instead.